14 Facts About Bob Goin

Robert Goin was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

Bob Goin was the college's head baseball coach and athletics director.

Bob Goin was the athletics director at California University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1981, Florida State University from 1990 to 1994 and the University of Cincinnati from 1997 to 2005.

Bob Goin was a 1959 graduate of Bethany College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Bob Goin returned to Bethany in 1960 as an assistant football coach.

Bob Goin was athletic director and chair of the physical education department at Bethany from 1970 to 1976, and as a tenured professor.

For five years, from 1990 to 1994, Bob Goin was the athletic director at Florida State, guiding the Seminoles into membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Bob Goin later resigned his position after being accused by a weekly newspaper in Tallahassee of using a contractor involved in the school's stadium expansion to install a new roof over his home.

Bob Goin placed a strong focus on developing UC student athletes' academic abilities during his tenure.

Bob Goin improved the academic support services they received and started programs that allowed those who exhausted their athletic eligibility to return to university in order to earn their degree.

Bob Goin retired from the director role at Cincinnati in 2005 to move closer to his four children and six grandchildren who resided in the Florida.

Bob Goin was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013, the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2015 and the University of Cincinnati athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.

Bob Goin was a member of the Penn Hills High School and Bethany College Halls of Fame and was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Phi Kappa Tau Hall of Fame in 2006.

Bob Goin died after a heart attack on October 12,2019, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.