Former AD Steve Sloan passed away

[untjim1995]

Steve Sloan dies at 79: Ex-Ole Miss coach won two national titles as player under 'Bear' Bryant at Alabama - CBSSports.com

 

Not sure why our alma mater wasn't listed, but he was the AD for my first few years here in Denton while I was a student. Even got to do an interview with him for a communications class when I was a sophomore. He admitted to me that day in his office that the administration just didn't support sports enough to compete with the schools in the SWC back then and that it was really frustrating.

[UNTLifer]

Now there was an administrator that spent way more time on the golf course than in the office.

[Ross Hodgeson]

RIP

[keith]

It is weird that his stint at North Texas was omitted.  Didn't he go to UCF right after us?  I think that's when the program there really started to get going.  

[NT80]

He was AD at North Texas from 1990-92.  He took over as AD from Corky Nelson.  I think he may have been our first AD without also being Head Coach of football too?  

Forgot he was a backup to Joe Namath at Bama, then won a National Championship of his own as QB.

Nice photos of his career here...

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2024/04/former-alabama-all-american-ad-steve-sloan-passed-away.html

 

[greenjoe]

As I recall, UCF was an unknown commodity.  Some of us wondered why Sloan would leave NT for UCF (who ?)  I recall giving him a can of Virginia Diner peanuts (yum) as an inducement to stay.  Didn’t work.  Sorry to hear of his passing.

[greenminer]

Sloan, Steve

UNT AD 1991-1993.  While he was here:

President: Alfred Francis Hurley
Football Coach: Dennis Parker
MBB Coach: Jimmy Gales
Conference Membership: Southland

[EAGLE83]

ThanksHe was the head football coach at Vanderbilt. They played Texas TECH IN THE PEACH BOWLat the game they announced he was becoming the head coach at Tech

[greenb.o.g.]

I've attached a couple of Orlando Sentinel articles written on the day he was hired at UCF.

Steve Sloan.docx