Notre Dame graduate Boo Corrigan, who is currently the athletic director at North Carolina State, is has been appointed the new chairman of the College Football Playoff committee. The following is the release that the CFP made public on Tuesday afternoon:
IRVING, Texas – The College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee has appointed NC State Athletics Director Boo Corrigan as selection committee chair for the 2022 football season, it was announced today by Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the CFP. Corrigan replaces Gary Barta, the athletics director at the University of Iowa, who served as chair for the past two seasons.
Hancock also announced that the Management Committee has appointed Chet Gladchuk, athletics director at the U.S. Naval Academy; Jim Grobe, longtime head coach at Ohio University, Wake Forest and Baylor; Warde Manuel, athletics director at the University of Michigan; and Kelly Whiteside, longtime sportswriter for USA Today, Sports Illustrated and Newsday, to the CFP Selection Committee.
The new members will begin three-year terms starting this spring. They will replace Barta, Paola Boivin, Charlie Cobb and Tyrone Willingham, whose terms have expired.
“Chet, Jim, Warde and Kelly will be outstanding additions to the committee as we enter our ninth season,” Hancock said. “Their expertise, knowledge and integrity, along with their love of college football, will allow them to fit right in with the returning members.”
“We are pleased that Boo will serve as chair,” Hancock added. “He was an important member of the committee last year, and in this new role he will serve as a great manager inside the room and a wonderful spokesperson to the media and fans.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed my first year on the committee,” Corrigan said. “It was a privilege to serve alongside the other members. I’m honored to be asked to serve as committee chair and look forward to working with an outstanding group of individuals who are deeply committed to college football.”
Corrigan has served as athletics director at NC State since April 2019. During that time, the Wolfpack captured the 2021 NCAA women’s cross country national championship, the first NCAA title ever by a Wolfpack women’s team and the school’s first national title in any sport since 1983. This comes on the heels of an enormously successful 2020-21 campaign where five programs finished in the Top 4 in the nation in their respective polls. NC State finished at No. 23 in the Learfield Directors’ Cup, marking the second-highest finish in school history.
Previously, Corrigan served eight years as director of athletics at West Point. Under his leadership, Army claimed 20 Patriot League regular season or tournament championships and sent 14 teams to the NCAA postseason. Corrigan was named a 2017 Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
Before joining Army, Corrigan worked for three years in the athletic department at Duke, serving as senior associate athletics director for external affairs. Corrigan also served five years as associate athletics director for marketing at the University of Notre Dame and three years as associate athletics director for marketing at the U.S. Naval Academy. He was the assistant director of marketing at Florida State University from 1992 to 1996.
Corrigan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Notre Dame in 1990 and earned a master’s degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013.
Gladchuk has served as Director of Athletics at the U.S. Naval Academy for the last 20 years. Gladchuk came to the Naval Academy in 2001 from the University of Houston, where he had been the Director of Athletics for four years.
Before Houston, Gladchuk led his alma mater, Boston College, as its the Director of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation for seven years. Prior to rejoining Boston College, he served as Director of Athletics at Tulane University from 1987-90 after a 1985-87 stint as an Associate AD at Syracuse University.
Gladchuk lettered in football at Boston College and after graduating went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he began his career in intercollegiate athletics. He also had served as Director of Athletics and head football coach for the New Hampton (Prep) School in New Hampshire prior to leaving for UMass.
Grobe spent 40 years in coaching, including 20 years as head coach at Ohio University (1995-2000), Wake Forest (2001-2013) and Baylor (2016). In 13 seasons at Wake Forest, Grobe led the Demon Deacons to five of the program’s eight all-time bowl appearances at the time. In 2006, Wake Forest won a school-record 11 games and defeated Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship to capture the school’s second-ever ACC title. Grobe’s work that year earned him ACC and National Coach of the Year honors.
Prior to Wake Forest, Grobe spent six years at Ohio University, posting five consecutive winning conference records. His coaching career began in 1975 as a graduate assistant at Virginia. He then spent two seasons as head coach at Liberty High School in Bedford, Va., before returning to the college ranks as an assistant coach at Emory & Henry, Marshall and Air Force.
Grobe played middle guard and linebacker at Ferrum (Va.) Junior College and the University of Virginia, where he earned a bachelor and master’s degree.