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Wiedmer: UTC’s Blackburn should be Vols’ next athletic director
KNOXVILLE — Tennessee on Thursday morning announced athletic director Dave Hart will retire from his position effective June 30, 2017.
Hart was hired to run the Volunteers’ flailing athletic department in 2011, and his tumultuous tenure has been filled with controversy, an improvement in the department’s financial standing and the turnaround of Tennessee’s football program under Butch Jones, who Hart hired in December 2012.
In April 2013 Hart received a contract extension through 2018, but he will finish his time as the leader of Tennessee’s athletic department sooner.
“As I thought about finishing this job well and how extremely proud I am of what everyone in our department has contributed collectively to get us to where we are today, I decided that this was a good time to set a target to wrap up my career as a Director of Athletics,” Hart said in a statement.