Meet new MSU Spartans Athletic Director J Batt
Download MP3Batt’s contract and appointment as vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics will be voted on by the Board of Trustees at its June 13 meeting, he will start the week of June 16.
Conversation Highlights:
(0:29) - Give us a bit of your background. Your name is Jason, but you go by J? Is there a story there?
(0:52) - You first met President Kevin Guskiewicz when you were a student athlete at UNC (he played soccer there), and you had to work with him on concussion treatments.
(3:50) - What’s the state and future of college athletics? NIL, transfer portal, etc. What is coming July 1?
(5:07) - What do see as the challenges and opportunities ahead for Spartan Athletics and all of college athletics?
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(8:20) - What is your philosophy on fundraising. Why do you love it? “Relationships. People invest in people.”
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