Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos surveys Memorial Stadium before Nebraska’s football game against Northwestern on Nov. 4, 2017.
Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos is reportedly on a long list of preliminary candidates the Pac-12 Conference is working through as it looks for a new commissioner.
Moos, 70, is listed as a preliminary candidate in a San Jose Mercury News report along with several others, including former XFL executive and West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck and current West Coast Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez.
The report says as many as 10 to 12 may have already been discussed and none of the candidates “would qualify as finalists.”
One source cited in the report said, “They’re floating a lot of names to get reaction from the (conference) presidents.”
Moos, of course, has a long history with the conference, having served as the athletic director at both Washington State and Oregon.
He also has a long history with TurnkeyZRG, the firm helping the Pac-12 identify candidates. It’s the firm NU used in the athletic director search that ended with Moos coming to Lincoln. When head football coach Scott Frost was introduced in December 2017, Moos called Turnkey partner Gene DeFilippo “my good friend.”
Moos also has repeatedly expressed his will to stay at Nebraska — though mostly while considering retirement as the alternative, not a lucrative and powerful commissioner position — through at least the end of his contract, which runs through Dec. 31, 2022.
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