The football coaching position at West Virginia is now in the hands of Wren Baker.
Baker, the 44-year-old North Texas athletic director, has been hired as West Virginia’s new AD, sources tell Sports Illustrated. The move is on the way to being finalized. Baker replaces Shane Lyons in what was a stunning dismissal earlier this fall. Lyons is now deputy athletic director at Alabama.
Baker, an Oklahoma native, spent more than six years at North Texas, most recently guiding the Mean Green into a new conference, the AAC, which it will join next year. He is a noted fundraiser who’s led record fundraising years at four different universities, including his stops at UNT and as a deputy at Memphis and Missouri.
