Sports Illustrated 3rd Most Powerful Person in College Football (2003) • Sporting News Power 100 Most Powerful Athletic Director (2004) • General Sports TURF Systems Division I-A Central Region Athletic Director of the Year (2006) • NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Under Armour AD of the Year Award presented by NACDA (2013) • National Football Foundation’s John L. Toner award (2015) • Sports Business Journal’s Athletic Director of the Year award (2015) • Bobby Dodd AD of the Year (2015) • Carl Maddox Sports Management Award (2015) • Homer Rice Award (2022) • ACC UNITE Award for Champions of Racial Equity (2023) • NACDA Hall of Fame • Irish America Hall of Fame • Tulane University Hall of Fame • Loras College Hall of Fame • Suffolk County Hall of Fame • Amityville High School Hall of Fame

•  4x Division I Director of Athletics
•   Division III Director of Athletics
•   Former President of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)
•   Former President of the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association
•   Former United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Board of Directors
•   Former Chair of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee
•   Former Chair of the ACC Television Committee
•   Former Chair of the USOPC Collegiate Advisory Committee
•   Former Director on the Advocates for Athletic Equity Board
•   Former Member of the Sugar Bowl Committee
•   Former Member of the Rose Bowl Management Committee
•   Former Representative with the Football Bowl Championship Series
•   Expert Advisory Board for the Knight Commission
•   Head Track and Field Coach at Southeast Missouri State University
•   Assistant Track and Field Coach at Central Michigan