Miami athletic director Dan Radakovich will retire effective June 1, ending a four-plus-year run that coincided with some of the biggest athletic highs the school has seen in years.
Miami announced the move Tuesday and said a national search is underway for his successor, with deputy athletic directors Brian Baptiste and Rachelle Paul set to serve as interim co-leaders reporting to university president Joe Echevarria.Â
Radakovich's second Miami chapter is coming to an end
Radakovich returned to Miami in December 2021, nearly 40 years after starting his athletics career in the university's athletics business office.
During Radakovich's tenure, Miami's football program reached the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, men's basketball made its first Final Four in 2023, and women's basketball advanced to its first Elite Eight that same year. Miami also had six Hurricanes win NCAA individual national championships during Radakovich's time leading the department.Â
Miami matched its school record with a 94% NCAA Graduation Success Rate this past year. The department also posted a record semester GPA of 3.40 last fall, while all 18 programs topped a 3.0 GPA in the same semester for the first time in school history.
What's next for Miami
Now the focus shifts to what comes after him.
The stakes are high because the world of college sports is in its most volatile era in decades. The House settlement, approved in June 2025, created a new framework for direct financial benefits to athletes, replaced scholarship limits with roster limits and established new rules around third-party NIL deals. Those changes took effect July 1, 2025, and they have fundamentally changed roster building, budgeting and long-term department planning across Division I.
Miami's next athletic director will inherit a program that appears stable and healthy but the challenge will be keeping it that way while navigating a sport that moves at 100 miles per hour.
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