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The top ten most-clicked jobs of the week...
#10: UCLA: Assistant Director of Business & Finance
#9: Penn State: Senior Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Strategic Communications
#8: Notre Dame: Operations Manager
#7: Florida State: Assistant Public Relations Director
#6: Ohio State: Assistant Director of Compliance
#5: Ohio University: Associate/Senior Associate AD for Business and Administrative Operations
#4: Pittsburgh: Director of Communications
#3: ACC: Vice President of Human Resources
#2: Western Michigan: Director of Athletics
#1: Vanderbilt: Assistant AD for Facilities & Event Management
#10: Check out the progress at Old Dominion's Ellmer Family Baseball Complex, still on track to be ready for opening day. (link)
#9: Syracuse has struck a deal with Progressive Insurance that will place Progressive's logo on the field at the JMA Wireless Dome between the goal lines and 20-yard lines beginning this season. (link)
#8: Wisconsin offers a glimpse inside Phase 1 of the $285M Kellner Family Athletic Center, which features a full 120-yard indoor football field alongside a strength and conditioning area, dedicated dining hall, sports medicine suite and elevated track. (link)
#7: The Portland Fire and Thorns have built a $150M, first-of-its-kind dual-sport facility for the WNBA and NWSL teams. Front Office Sports shares some of the images of the HQ, which features two full-size soccer pitches, two full-size basketball courts, a gym, sauna, Pilates studio, dedicated family spaces and content creation studios. (link)
#6: The Summit League has named NCAA Asst. Director of Women's Basketball Jessie Carmack as Deputy Commissioner/COO. (link)
#5: Here's a look at the Big 12's new Monster Energy patch on Houston's football uniforms. (link)
#4: Now this is cool: Idaho Director of Video Production Richard Pathomsiri commissioned senior fine arts student Emma Cuddy to reimagine the football program's digital game-week posters by producing 12 original, 18-by-20 inch oil paintings throughout the upcoming season. The initiative debuted ahead of the season opener against Cal Poly, featuring quarterback Joshua Wood gripping a spear on a California beach alongside wild mustangs, a piece that required roughly 30 hours of meticulous brushwork. The university will photograph each completed canvas to distribute digitally before auctioning the original artwork, with Cuddy retaining a cut of the final sale. Pathomsiri on trusting the slow, methodical creative process to cut through digital fatigue: “What you need to do is try to put football players in situations that seem bigger than life. … There are people out there that can capture so much feeling and invoke so much inspiration in you.” (link)
#3: The Big 12-Monster Energy logo has been painted on the field at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. See for yourself. (link)
#2: Check out Ohio State's new on-field suites at Ohio Stadium. Each suite costs $142,700 and can hold 12 people, with eight standing-room spots. (link)
#1: SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross will exit his role after three years leading the league, per FOX Sports' Ben Portnoy. (link)
