Mark Coyle

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Mark Coyle
Current position
TitleAthletic director
TeamMinnesota
ConferenceBig Ten
Biographical details
BornWaterloo, Iowa, U.S.
Alma materDrake University
Florida State University
Playing career
football
1987–1991Drake
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2001–2005Minnesota (associate AD)
2006–2011Kentucky (deputy AD)
2011–2015Boise State
2015–2016Syracuse
2016–presentMinnesota

Mark Coyle is the 23rd director of athletics at the University of Minnesota, replacing Norwood Teague.[1] He resigned as the athletics director at Syracuse University in May 2016 after spending only 11 months with the Syracuse Orange.[2][3]

Prior to this position, Coyle was the athletics director at Boise State University (2011–15),[4] a deputy athletics director at the University of Kentucky (2006–11), and an associate athletics director at Minnesota (2001–05).

At Syracuse, two of his programs won national titles and five won ACC championships. Prior to that, at Boise State, 18 Broncos teams posted record GPAs on the way to claiming 12 conference championships.[5]

At Minnesota, he received a multi-year contract extension running through June 2026.[6]

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