Lawrence R "Bubba" Cunningham was born on May 12,1962 and is an American athletic administrator who has been serving as the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since November 2011.
10 Facts About Bubba Cunningham
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Bubba Cunningham previously served as athletic director at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma from 2005 to 2011 and at Ball State University in Indiana from 2002 to 2005.
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Lawrence R Cunningham was born in Flint, Michigan, and was later raised in Naples, Florida.
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Bubba Cunningham attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, playing golf there.
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Bubba Cunningham was made athletics director for the first time at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 2002.
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Bubba Cunningham accepted his second athletic director job at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2005.
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Bubba Cunningham was Tulsa's athletic director during their transition to Conference USA.
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On November 14,2011, Bubba Cunningham accepted his current athletic director job at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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In 2025, controversy surrounded Bubba Cunningham, who served on the NCAA tournament selection committee, when UNC, a team most Bracketologists agreed was a non tournament team, was invited to the 2025 NCAA tournament as an 11 seed while more deserving teams like West Virginia and Indiana were left out.
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Bubba Cunningham is married to Tina, and they have four children.