Dan Radakovich
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Athletic director |
| Team | Clemson |
| Conference | ACC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | June 9, 1958 |
| Alma mater |
Indiana University Pa. (B.S.) University of Miami (M.B.A.) |
| Playing career | |
| 1977–1980 | IUP |
| Position(s) | Tight end, punter |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1983–1985 | Miami (FL) (athletic business manager) |
| 1989–1994 | Long Beach State (associate AD) |
| 1994–2000 | South Carolina (associate AD) |
| 2000–2001 | American |
| 2001–2006 | LSU (senior associate AD) |
| 2006–2012 | Georgia Tech |
| 2012–present | Clemson |
Dan Radakovich (born June 9, 1958) is the athletics director at Clemson University. Previously, he was the Athletics Director at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he held from February 22, 2006 to October 29, 2012. He was previously the Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Louisiana State University.
Radakovich has a long background in dealing with program finance, as well as large scale renovation and facility improvement. Over the course of his career, Radakovich has managed over a quarter of a billion dollars for various universities' athletic departments.
Radakovich, a Serbian American, hails from Monaca, Pennsylvania where he attended Center High School, just outside Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He was a distingusehd graduate from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1980) where he earned a bachelor's degree in finance. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Business Administration in 1982 with a master's degree in business administration.
At Long Beach State, he revamped radio broadcast agreements.
At South Carolina, he managed $33 million in facility improvements, including the Colonial Life Arena, now the home of USC's basketball teams as well as other sports.
At American University, he worked to get the school into the Patriot League.
At LSU, he developed a football ticket donation program, and was involved in $90,000,000 renovation of Tiger Stadium.
When hired at Georgia Tech on February 22, 2006, Radakovich beat out former Tech player and head coach Bill Curry and former Tech baseball and football player and baseball assistant coach Cam Bonifay for the job. Radakovich improved the sales of season tickets for the 2006 football season, especially "chairback" or "club level" season tickets; hired football head coach Paul Johnson. He changed the way that athletic seating worked with the TECH Fund. The program also had several facilities changes, including a new indoor practice facility for football, Alexander Memorial Coliseum redesigned as Hank McCamish Pavilion, and rebuilt tennis facilities.
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