{"id":313214,"date":"2026-06-19T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:09","slug":"the-university-of-miami-is-willing-to-wait-to-find-ad-successor-for-dan-radakovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313214\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Miami is willing to wait to find AD successor for Dan Radakovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">The Univ. of Miami is without an AD after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/26\/report-miami-targets-michael-yormark-for-ad-with-radakovich-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/26\/report-miami-targets-michael-yormark-for-ad-with-radakovich-retiring\/\">the retirement of Dan Radakovich<\/a> on June 1, but the school is willing to wait to fill the role until it finds the proper person. UM President &amp; CEO Joe Echevarria appeared on Miami-based WQAM-FM on Wednesday and said, \u201cI\u2019m in no hurry. There\u2019s lots of people who want that role, but it\u2019s got to be the right person for the future of college sports.\u201d Former Florida Panthers President Michael Yormark has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/26\/report-miami-targets-michael-yormark-for-ad-with-radakovich-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/26\/report-miami-targets-michael-yormark-for-ad-with-radakovich-retiring\/\">rumored as a front-runner for the position<\/a>. Echevarria did not address any specific candidate, but listed what the school is looking for. He said, \u201cWe really need a forward thinking leader. But that leader has to have real commercial experience, especially in media, media rights, revenue, innovation. Now they\u2019ve got to be deeply committed to excellence and student development, but they\u2019ve also got to be able to honor the storied brand of the U and build upon the legacy to lead us into the next era of college athletics\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WnLoU5cLp6k&amp;list=PLD3ZJvmBQ7jt-sid1Ktwu4qSq7ANfMXOl&amp;index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WnLoU5cLp6k&amp;list=PLD3ZJvmBQ7jt-sid1Ktwu4qSq7ANfMXOl&amp;index=3\">\u201cThe Joe Rose Show,\u201d WQAM-FM, 6\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Univ. of Miami is without an AD after the retirement of Dan Radakovich on June 1, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8294,143,7269,123,125,124,142],"class_list":["post-313214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-football","tag-leadership","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ncaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}