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The No. 2 official in Alabama's athletic department is heading home, according to multiple reports.
Shane Lyons, the deputy director of athletics and chief operating officer, is expected to take the AD job at West Virginia, according to The Charleston Gazette and other local news outlets. Lyons, a graduate of West Virginia, replaced Dave Hart in 2011 when he left for the Tennessee athletics director position.
Lyons was the associate commissioner of the ACC for 10 years before coming to Alabama.
"There's a lot of similarities between West Virginia and Alabama," Lyons said in an interview with AL.com in the fall of 2012. "Great, hard-working people in the state. Without the professional sports team, there's just a passion around the state about the college athletics programs. That's something very special that you can't take away from the people. You talk to people outside of here, look at spring game and see 80,000 people there and see the passion and desire that people have. That's something we want to have for our fans, something to brag about and for people to talk about."
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Shane Lyons, the deputy director of athletics and chief operating officer, is expected to take the AD job at West Virginia, according to The Charleston Gazette and other local news outlets. Lyons, a graduate of West Virginia, replaced Dave Hart in 2011 when he left for the Tennessee athletics director position.
Lyons was the associate commissioner of the ACC for 10 years before coming to Alabama.
"There's a lot of similarities between West Virginia and Alabama," Lyons said in an interview with AL.com in the fall of 2012. "Great, hard-working people in the state. Without the professional sports team, there's just a passion around the state about the college athletics programs. That's something very special that you can't take away from the people. You talk to people outside of here, look at spring game and see 80,000 people there and see the passion and desire that people have. That's something we want to have for our fans, something to brag about and for people to talk about."
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