Senior NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski dropped his ultimate “Woj bomb” Wednesday morning, saying that he has moved on from ESPN.
Wojnarowski, 55, agreed to develop into the overall supervisor of the lads’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater. He graduated from the western New York college in 1991.
Wojnarowski prior to now labored at a number of newspapers — together with The Document of Bergen County (New Jersey) — in addition to Yahoo Sports activities earlier than becoming a member of ESPN in 2017. He signed a freelance extension with ESPN in 2022.
“This craft reworked my lifestyles, however I have determined to retire from ESPN and the scoop business,” Wojnarowski wrote in a press release posted to social media. “I perceive the dedication required in my position and it is an funding that I am now not pushed to make. Time is not in unending provide and I wish to spend mine in techniques which are extra in my opinion significant.”
In step with St. Bonaventure’s information unlock, Wojnarowski will organize a variety of obligations together with “title, symbol and likeness (NIL) alternatives and as a liaison with collectives; switch portal control; recruit, circle of relatives and alumni participant relationships; skilled participant techniques; and program fundraising.”
“This transfer is important to navigate the brand new panorama of faculty basketball in NIL, recruiting and retention,” Bonnies trainer Mark Schmidt stated. “Woj is as hooked up as any person within the basketball international and his decades-long community of relationships can simplest assist our program stay a number of the best groups within the Atlantic 10 going ahead.”
Bonnies athletic director Bob Beretta stated Wojnarowski will reach his new undertaking.
“Woj is the easiest individual to fill this new position, combining his intimate wisdom of St. Bonaventure and our Franciscan values with a deep community of relationships he has constructed around the worlds {of professional} and intercollegiate basketball,” Beretta stated. “The truth that the preeminent journalist in his box is prepared to stroll clear of a profitable media profession to serve his alma mater in a fortify position is a testomony to his love and fervour for Bona’s.”
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