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With Interim Athletic Director Oliver "Buddy" Pough having stepped in following Dr. Nathan Cochran's abrupt departure in January 2025—the latest in a decade marked by significant administrative turnover—South Carolina State is searching for a permanent leader to guide the Bulldogs within the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The incoming AD will arrive in Orangeburg amid the newly launched "The Power of SC State" capital campaign, which has already raised $17.4 million toward a $41.2 million goal that includes a $10.4 million renovation of Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. D1.dossiers has compiled a comprehensive intelligence report detailing the financial, structural, and philanthropic realities the next AD will inherit.