Bill Moos

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Bill Moos
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Moos in 2010
Biographical details
Borncirca 1951 (age 72–73)
Edwall, Washington, U.S.
Playing career
1969–1972 Washington State
Position(s) Offensive tackle
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1982–1987 Washington State (asst. AD)
1988–1990Washington State (assoc. AD)
1990–1995 Montana
1995–2007 Oregon
2010–2017Washington State
2017–2021 Nebraska

William H. Moos (born circa 1951) is an American former college athletics administrator and college football player. He served as the athletic director at the University of Montana from 1990 to 1995, the University of Oregon from 1995 to 2007, Washington State University from 2010 to 2018, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 2017 to 2021. Moos played college football at Washington State from 1969 to 1972.

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Early life

Moos was born and raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in rural Washington, then moved to Olympia at age fourteen when his father was named director of agriculture for governor Daniel J. Evans. Moos graduated from Olympia High School and played college football at Washington State under head coach Jim Sweeney. In his senior season in 1972, Moos was one of two offensive tackles named to the All-Pac-8 team, [1] [2] and he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1973. [3]

Administrative career

Oregon

Moos served as assistant athletics director at his alma mater from 1982 to 1990, before leaving to become the director of athletics at the University of Montana. He held that position until 1995, when he was hired as director of athletics at the University of Oregon, a position he held until 2007. At Oregon, Moos raised the athletics budget from $18.5 million to $40 million, which included a 2002 renovation of Autzen Stadium, and the construction of the Ed Moshofsky Sports Center. [4] During Moos' tenure, Oregon won 13 Pac-10 championships and added soccer and lacrosse and university-sponsored programs.

Moos left Oregon in 2007 after a dispute with Nike founder and university donor Phil Knight. [5] Terms of Moos' departure included an agreement that paid him $200,000 annually for not taking an administrative position at a Power Five school west of the Mississippi River. During his hiatus between 2007 and 2010, Moos took to raising beef cattle at his ranch at Valleyford, Washington, southeast of Spokane. [5] The exact reasons for his resignation from Oregon are unknown, but the dispute with Knight regarding funding for an arena to replace the aging McArthur Court "strained a bit toward the end." [6] After Moos resigned, Knight donated $100 million towards the building of a new arena for Oregon. [6]

Washington State

Moos returned to Washington State as athletic director in 2010. During his tenure, he signed a ten-year marketing agreement with Nike, [7] and, as dean of Pac-12 athletic directors, oversaw the conference's 12-year, $3 billion television agreement with Fox Sports and ESPN. [8]

Nebraska

Moos was hired as Nebraska's director of athletics on October 15, 2017, at a base salary of $1 million, making him the second-highest paid athletic director in the Big Ten, behind only Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez. After firing Mike Riley at the end of the 2017 season, Moos hired former Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost from UCF to serve as head football coach. [9] Just months after his hiring, Nebraska's volleyball program won the NCAA Tournament, giving Moos his first national championship as an administrator.

In March 2019, Moos fired men's basketball head coach Tim Miles, and replaced him with former Iowa State and Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg, a Lincoln native. [10]

On June 25, 2021, it was announced that Moos would retire as the athletic director at Nebraska effective June 30. [11]

Personal life

Moos and his wife Kendra have five children: daughters Christa, Brittany, and Kaiti, and sons Bo and Benjamin.

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References

  1. ↑ "Trojans top Pac-8 team". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 25, 1972. p. 13.
  2. ↑ "Two Cougars tabbed Pac-8 all-stars". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). November 25, 1972. p. 12.
  3. ↑ "Bill Moos hired as Director of Athletics | WSU Timeline Site | Washington State University". timeline.wsu.edu. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Bio". Archived from the original on December 6, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Washington State Introduces Bill Moos, formerly of Oregon, as athletic director" . Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "How a monster ate former UO director Moos" . Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Lucrative deals with Nike, Adidas another edge in battle between college 'haves,' 'have nots'". OregonLive.com. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ "WSUCougars.com | Washington State University Athletics". www.wsucougars.com. Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ Network, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Web Developer. "Program-builder Bill Moos is Nebraska's new director of athletics" . Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ "BILL MOOS". huskers.com. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ "'Apparently, this was the best time': AD Moos retiring after extensive consideration, conversations". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
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