Rivals Recruiting Podcast

UConn Special Assistant to the AD, Jason Butikofer

09.23.2022 - By Rivals.comPlay

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Clint Cosgrove is joined by UConn's Jason Butikofer to discuss name, image and likeness and its impact and future in college football.

2:10 Butikofer gets into the sporting world as the basketball manager @ Iowa where they went to the Sweet 16 his senior year and lost to UCONN.

7:22 Internship with St. Louis Rams out of college which led to basketball coaching job at Luther College and then his first full-time job in athletic administration at Arizona State.

11:20 Leaves Arizona State to accept a job at University of Minnesota where he took part in fundraising and $5 mil of premium seating sales for the new on-campus football stadium at Minnesota.

16:34 Discusses broadening his experience and taking the Assistant AD job at Army West Point where he was No. 2 in charge and oversaw tons of sports.

22:32 Accepts Head Athletic Director job at Southern Utah where they won Big Sky Championship in football.

35:34 Discusses the process of hiring a D1 football coach and what it is like as an AD. He also had to hire a D1 basketball coach while he was there too.

41:09 Quick overview of stops as Associate AD at Purdue overseeing football/Basketball and then a stop at Washington as their Chief Operating Officer of Athletics and how those led to his current job at UCONN working with NIL.

45:00 He discusses his current job as Special Assistant to the AD in charge of NIL at UCONN. All about his role and the future of NIL.

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