{"id":271998,"date":"2025-11-05T01:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:05:07","slug":"lsu-to-name-verge-ausberry-full-time-athletics-director-as-new-president-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271998\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU to name Verge Ausberry full-time athletics director as new president takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU<\/a> is set to name Verge Ausberry as its full-time athletics director, The Bengal Tiger\u2019s<\/a> Shea Dixon<\/a> confirmed. The decision comes as new president Wade Rousse takes over.<\/p>\n

Ausberry became LSU\u2019s interim athletics director last week following Scott Woodward\u2019s departure. All the while, the university was wrapping up its search for a new president. The Board of Supervisors named Rousse as the new president<\/a> Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

When LSU announce Ausberry in the interim role, the school confirmed he would have a prominent role in hiring the next football coach. The Tigers parted ways with Brian Kelly<\/a> before things escalated and Woodward was eventually let go, as well.<\/p>\n

Ausberry has been at LSU since 1991, starting out as an intern in the compliance office. He then worked his way up the ladder and, in 2019, became the school\u2019s executive deputy athletics director. He also served as the executive director of external relations, working closely with the president\u2019s office on governmental relations \u2013 both internal and external.<\/p>\n

\u201cVerge Ausberry is a native son of Louisiana and LSU, who has spent all of his adult life working to better this athletic department and this state,\u201d said LSU Board Athletics Committee chair John Carmouche in an Oct. 30 statement<\/a> upon Ausberry\u2019s elevation to interim AD. <\/p>\n

From the time he arrived on campus as a football student-athlete, he\u2019s been associated with championship excellence and will continue to uphold that standard in his role as interim athletic director. He\u2019s the ideal person to lead this department with full authority at this time, and together we show the country that LSU continues to be an elite destination for student-athletes, coaches and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

LSU\u2019s football coaching search remains the biggest storyline in Baton Rouge, and Ausberry addressed it during a press conference shortly after becoming interim athletics director. He made his expectations crystal clear: the Tigers should be a perennial College Football Playoff team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur next chapter is to hire a football coach,\u201d Ausberry said. \u201cHire the best football coach there is. That\u2019s our jobs. We\u2019ll go out there, and we are not going to let this program fail. LSU has to be in the playoffs every year in football. There\u2019s 12 teams that make it. It\u2019s going to expand here. We have to be one of those at LSU. No substitute.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be talked about on ESPN. Every channel, we\u2019re talking about LSU football. That is the way. This big building here has to be successful if we\u2019re going to be successful as an athletic department. That\u2019s the measuring stick that we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU is set to name Verge Ausberry as its full-time athletics director, The Bengal Tiger\u2019s Shea Dixon confirmed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-271998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}