Former Kansas City Chiefs offensive line player and Pro Football’s famous Will Football Shields, who also won the Outland Trophy while in Nebraska, and Virginia Union athletic director Joe Taylor, one of the most winners in HBCU history, heads the five new Football Cup selection committee members announced on Tuesday.
Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart NC State Athletic Director Boo Corrigan and Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte along with Shields and Taylor will begin their three-year terms on the committee this spring. of 13 members.
They will be replaced by Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, former coach Ken Hatfield, former American Ronnie Lott, Georgia Tech athletic director Todd Stansbury, and Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin, whose terms have expired.
“Mitch, Boo, Chris, Will and Joe will continue the integrity that has been the committee’s hallmark during our seven seasons,” PCP Executive Director Bill Hancock said in a prepared statement. “His knowledge, experience and character, along with his love for the sport of college football, will make the transition perfect.”
The PCP management committee, made up of ten FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, also extended Iowa athletic director Gary Barta’s term as chair of the selection committee for a second season. Barta, who has been Iowa AD since 2006, joined the committee in January 2019 and was named chairman a year later.
“We’re glad Gary will be chairing again,” Hancock said. “He was a valuable leader as the committee navigated a unique and challenging year. We look forward to working with the other 12 members on what we hope will be a more traditional season in 2021.”
Shields, a former North American guard in Nebraska, played for the Cornhuskers from 1989 to 1992 and is one of 16 players in school history to have retired the shirt. In 2011, Shields was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
It was the Chiefs’ third-round pick in the 1993 NFL draft, and never missed a game in 14 seasons, starting 231 straight games on the right and winning 12 Pro Bowl appearances from 1995 to 2000. entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
Taylor, who has worked at Virginia Union since 2013, had a 41-year career as a coach, including 30 as a head coach. During his administrative tenure in Richmond, the school has won 15 division, conference and regional championships.
As head coach, Taylor’s teams won five black college national championships, 10 conference titles and made 10 playoff appearances. Taylor recorded a lifetime profit and loss record of 233-96-4, and ranks third in professional victories in HBCU history. Taylor was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2019 and the Black College Football Hall of Fame in 2020. He has also been president of the American Association of Soccer Coaches.
Barnhart, who has been Kentucky’s athletic director since 2002, is the SEC’s longest-serving athletic director and was named president of the SEC’s athletic directors in 2017. He was also a member of the Division I basketball and baseball committees. of the NCAA.
Corrigan, who spent eight years as athletic director in the Army, has held the same position at NC State since April 2019. He was named Athletic Director of the Year 2017 by the National Association of Directors Col. Athletics. While at West Point, the Army won 20 regular season championships or Patriot League tournaments and sent 14 teams into the NCAA postseason.
Del Conte was hired as Texas sporting director in December 2017 after making a name for himself during his eight-year tenure as AD at TCU, where he oversaw the school’s entry into the Big 12 Conference. . He was also athletic director at Rice from 2006 to 2009.