1. William H Moos was born on circa 1951 and is an American former college athletics administrator and college football player.
11 Facts About Bill Moos
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Bill Moos graduated from Olympia High School and played college football at Washington State under head coach Jim Sweeney.
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Bill Moos served as assistant athletics director at his alma mater from 1982 to 1990, before leaving to become the director of athletics at the University of Montana.
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Bill Moos held that position until 1995, when he was hired as director of athletics at the University of Oregon, a position he held until 2007.
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At Oregon, Bill Moos raised the athletics budget from $18.5 million to $40 million, which included a 2002 renovation of Autzen Stadium, and the construction of the Ed Moshofsky Sports Center.
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Bill Moos left Oregon in 2007 after a dispute with Nike founder and university donor Phil Knight.
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Terms of Bill Moos' departure included an agreement that paid him $200,000 annually for not taking an administrative position at a Power Five school west of the Mississippi River.
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Bill Moos returned to Washington State as athletic director in 2010.
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Bill Moos was hired as Nebraska's director of athletics on October 15,2017, at a base salary of $1 million, making him the second-highest paid athletic director in the Big Ten, behind only Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez.
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In March 2019, Bill Moos fired men's basketball head coach Tim Miles, and replaced him with former Iowa State and Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg, a Lincoln native.
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On June 25,2021, it was announced that Bill Moos would retire as the athletic director at Nebraska effective June 30.