Joe Dean Jr. This is Me

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1. 1. www.al.com

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   Published on: 2/15/2008   Last Visited: 2/15/2008

   Birmingham-Southern athletic director Joe Dean Jr., who hired Jones as the Panthers' first head coach since the football program was dissolved in 1939, said South Alabama is getting "a first-class guy and a first-class coach."
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   "I moved to Birmingham in 1983 when Joey was a senior at Alabama," Dean said.

2. 2. Birmingham-Southern College Athletics

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   Published on: 1/31/2008   Last Visited: 1/31/2008

   Joe Dean, Jr. Athletic Director
   
   Joe Dean, Jr. begins his ninth year as the Athletics Director at Birmingham-Southern.Dean was hired in June of 1999 and charged with directing Birmingham-Southern's move to the NCAA Division I level, and now leads the transition to NCAA Division III.His wide range of experiences as a student-athlete at Mississippi State University, a 17-year college basketball coach, businessman, and now athletic administrator has equipped Dean with the necessary skills to meet the challenges associated with the complex world of college athletics.
   
   As a three-year basketball letterman at Mississippi State University, he received several honors, including 1976 Academic All-SEC and was the first recipient of the James H. "Babe" McCarthy Award for leadership, scholarship, and citizenship.Dean earned his B.S. degree in Education in 1976 and his Master of Education Degree from Mississippi State in 1977.
   
   Dean began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at Mississippi State in the 1976-77 season.He then served as an assistant basketball coach at the University of Kentucky from 1977-1983, which included an NCAA Championship in 1978.Dean was named head basketball coach at Birmingham-Southern in 1983.In six seasons the Panthers won three consecutive Southern States Conference Championships, two District 27 titles, and competed in the NAIA National Tournament in 1984 and 1986.Dean was named Conference and District Coach of the Year three times, and finished his tenure at BSC with a 137-45 overall record.After his six year stint at Birmingham-Southern, Dean accepted a Division I head coaching position at the University of Central Florida, where he coached from 1989-1993.In 1994, Dean was selected to the BSC Sports Hall of Fame.
   
   From 1993-1999, Dean worked as the Vice-President for Sales & Marketing for the Colonnade Group, Inc. in Birmingham.His primary responsibilities were sales of SEC Championship hospitality venues, sales and management of Executive Suites programs at Auburn and Georgia, and business development & marketing for the company.
   
   The past eight years has seen dramatic changes in the athletics program at Birmingham-Southern.In leading BSC's move to NCAA Division I, Dean assisted the College in developing and upgrading its athletic facilities and raised over $2M for the renovation of Bill Battle Coliseum, the building of BSC's softball park, and most recently the T.B. Pearson Sports Hall of Fame and a new athletic weight room.In 2000, he was successful in finding BSC a league home in the Big South Conference.
   
   Dean created the BSC Athletic Foundation in 1999, which has raised over $6 million the past eight years in support of BSC athletics.Dean also developed the BSC Sports Show and BSC Radio Network, and cultivated over 40 corporate sponsors to help fund these ventures.
   
   As part of his administrative duties, Dean has hired 23 head coaches in 16 different sports, as well as 12 athletic administrators the past eight years.The BSC athletics program enjoyed amazing success on the fields and courts the past four years, once it became eligible for Big South Conference and NCAA Championship berths.BSC has won eight Big South Conference Championships in five sports, and competed in four NCAA Championship events since the 2003-2004 academic year.Six BSC coaches have been named Big South Coach of the Year the past four years.
   
   Now with the transition to NCAA Division III, Dean has been instrumental in adding new sports programs in football, men and women's track & field, and men and women's lacrosse.In June of 2006, Dean hired Joey Jones, a former All-SEC player at Alabama, and successful high school coach, as BSC's head football coach.
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   For the past four years, Dean has served on the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee and is currently on the selection committee of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
   
   Dean is a member of Asbury United Methodist Church and is very active in civic activities in Birmingham.He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society, the downtown Kiwanis Club, the Baptist Health Foundation, the Alabama Basketball Foundation, and the Birmingham Region of Colonial Bank.
   
   For the past 13 years, Dean has also worked as a TV color analyst on SEC basketball games for Lincoln Financial Sports and Fox SportSouth.
   
   Dean and his wife, the former Ellen Anger, have been married for 31 years.

3. 3. www.shadesvalleyrotary.org

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   Published on: 1/1/2008   Last Visited: 1/12/2008

   Joe Dean, Athletic Director of Birmingham-SouthernEvents | Shades Valley Rotary
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   Joe Dean, Athletic Director of Birmingham-Southern