Greg Byrne

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  Published on: 9/24/2009    Last Visited: 9/25/2009  

  The contract for the game was signed this morning, MSU athletic director Greg Byrne said.
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  Mississippi State University Athletic Director Greg Byrne discusses plans for a Southern Miss-MSU football series.
  
  Mississippi State University Athletic Director Greg Byrne discusses plans for a Southern Miss-MSU football series. (Rusty Hampton/The Clarion-Ledger)

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  Published on: 7/12/2009    Last Visited: 7/13/2009  

  For as much as MSU athletic director Greg Byrne was enamored with Mullen when they met last Dec. 9, there was something else at work.
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  "We wanted to be unique," Mississippi State athletic director Greg Byrne said.
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  So when Byrne was charged with making his first football hire after taking over the AD job earlier last year, his approach was two-pronged: 1) Find a coach who's good and 2) Find a coach who can promise excitement to a fan base desperately in need of some.
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  Byrne and Scott Stricklin, an associate AD who was with Byrne during the entire search, are careful to say that they weren't wholly committed to the spread.
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  Byrne and Scott Stricklin, an associate AD who was with Byrne during the entire search, are careful to say that they weren't wholly committed to the spread.
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  "We wanted to find the right fit for Mississippi State," Byrne said. "Now, we were definitely interested in finding someone who had a very good offensive pedigree. And one that we felt would be able to highlight an area that we felt like we needed improvement."
  
  But to fully reach that conclusion, State's administrators spent the early part of the coaching search last December talking to some of college football's biggest names in an advisory role.
  
  Among others, Byrne spoke with Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti and Boise State coach Chris Petersen.
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  When Byrne spoke to the offensive recruits who had already committed to State, only one said he would prefer to play in a traditional, two-back offense.
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  "We feel at Mississippi State, we need to be a little bit different," Byrne said.

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  Via Media Relations
  
  STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State Director of Athletics Larry Templeton announced Monday the hiring of Greg Byrne as Associate Athletic Director for Development and External Affairs. The hiring requires the approval of the Board of Trustees, Institutions of Higher Learning.
  
  Byrne, who will spearhead MSU's athletic fund-raising efforts and oversee the Bulldog Club staff, has spent 13 years in intercollegiate athletics. He has previously served as Associate Director of Athletics for Fund-Raising and Development at the University of Kentucky and in a similar fund-raising capacity at Oregon State University.
  
  A native of Pocatello, Idaho, Byrne was responsible for raising funds for athletic scholarship, capital projects and major gift-giving at both institutions. He began his athletic career in 1992 with the Fiesta Bowl.
  
  He comes to Mississippi State after serving as National Sales Director for CaseLogistix, a technology development company based out of Jackson, Miss.
  
  Byrne earned his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University. He and his wife, the former Regina Misa, have two sons, Nicholas and Davis. Byrne's father, Bill, is the Director of Athletics at Texas A&M.
  
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  Associated Press - December 5, 2008 6:24 PM ET STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Athletic director Greg Byrne has started interviewing candidates to replace former Mississippi State football coach ... "); var headline = escape("Miss. St. athletic director begins interviews"); OpenWin( '/Global/Create Email Story.asp?s=9467242&Headline=' + headline + '&Summary=' + summary + '||width=650,height=545,toolbar=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,status=0')"> Associated Press - December 5, 2008 6:24 PM ET STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Athletic director Greg Byrne has started interviewing candidates to replace former Mississippi State football coach ... "); var headline = escape("Miss. St. athletic director begins interviews"); OpenWin( '/Global/Create Email Story.asp?s=9467242&Headline=' + headline + '&Summary=' + summary + '||width=650,height=545,toolbar=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,status=0')" STYLE="color:#0033FF">Email
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  STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Athletic director Greg Byrne has started interviewing candidates to replace former Mississippi State football coach Sylvester Croom.
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  Ruby declined to tell the paper who Byrne is interviewing.
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  Byrne has said he will not talk to the media until he has a coach in place.
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  Speculation has centered on Boise State coach Chris Peterson, a longtime friend of Byrne.

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  MSU Athletics Director Greg Byrne

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  Croom announced the decision after meeting with athletic director Greg Byrne.
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  Byrne was scheduled to meet with reporters later Saturday afternoon.
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  Byrne, a new hire who's been on the job less than a year, wouldn't comment on the speculation surrounding the football team during the season but said Saturday that a possible resignation was discussed in the morning meeting.
  
  "We discussed the football program and many topics were addressed, including resignation," Byrne said in a statement.
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  Byrne said Croom's assistants remain under contract and will work until a new coach is hired. He told Forde that Mississippi State's search for a successor begins immediately and will be national in scope. He declined to discuss any specific potential candidates but said he wanted a "passionate leader who is capable of helping us win in the SEC.
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  "Looking forward I plan to work closely with athletic director Greg Byrne to move quickly, but with due deliberation, to find a new head football coach with high energy and a commitment to compete for championships and bowl opportunities in the best conference in America," Keenum said.

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  Published on: 7/15/2007    Last Visited: 7/19/2007  

  MSU associate athletic director Greg Byrne directs the club, which has six employees and a graduate assistant working out of a first floor office in the Bryan Athletic Administration Building.

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  From his office in College Station, Texas, Bill is one of two Byrnes to be a current Division I athletic director; the other, his son Greg, was named to the prestigious position one year ago to this day at Mississippi State.
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  In a year, Greg has addressed two major coaching changes, completed a $6 million dollar project - that resulted in the High Definition video screen built on the south end of Scott Field - and started to reshape the athletic department to suit his vision.
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  So how did Greg Byrne get to the point he is at now so quickly? Naturally, said his father. "It's funny that you ask me that question," Bill started. "I was recently emptying baskets of stuff that we have brought with us through moves from Albuquerque to Eugene (Oregon) and now to College Station. "I found a bunch of pictures and several of them are at a jog-a-thon held at New Mexico. Greg was four-years old helping raise money for the Lobos." That was the start of a long history in fundraising for the still relatively young athletic administrator. Greg admittedly got his start learning about college athletics in his household.
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  Greg was a ball boy at football games, and Bill can remember his son catching an errant pass from then Stanford quarterback John Elway.
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  When Bill was starting there, Greg helped out by rebuilding the baseball field after a tractor had been donated to the program.
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  To this day Greg says that what he does is a business, but he calls it "a business with a heart." Greg then started to impress others, such as current Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart, who worked with Bill as an intern at San Diego State in the early 1980's.
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  Greg was his associate athletic director in charge of fundraising, which was a nonexistent entity at that point in time at Corvallis.
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  From there, Greg came to Mississippi State as an associate athletic director in charge of the Bulldog Club in 2006 and was named athletic director in 2008. The basis for Greg's career was set; he had built a reputation in fundraising and had risen to the top spot in the business. And now as his first year as State's athletic director has "flown by," he can look back and sound just like his father. "It's easy to lose balance in your life if you're not careful," Greg said.

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  "I have a lot of respect for director of athletics Greg Byrne and the Mississippi State athletic program, but I am not taking the head coaching position at Mississippi State.
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  Petersen and Mississippi State athletic director Greg Byrne are close fiends, dating back to their time together at Oregon.
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  "Greg and I have been friends for a long time.

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  MSU Athletic Director Greg Byrne said Monday the school is open to playing opponents in Mississippi as long as it fits what it's trying to do competitively and financially and the game meets its scheduling philosophy. The Bulldogs' goal is to schedule seven home games every year, and Byrne likes the chances of doing that on a

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