ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports Purdue will hire Tommy McClelland as athletic director. Among his signature initiatives was creating an associate athletic director for NIL and general manager position to oversee the Owls’ Name, Image and Likeness operations. Before arriving at Rice, McClelland spent three years as deputy athletic director at Vanderbilt, a private SEC school with roughly 14,000 students in Nashville. McClelland inherits one of the most stable athletic director positions in the country. He also inherits an athletic department with momentum in several areas, aided by Bobinski’s decade of leadership, while facing increasing pressure to adapt to an ever-changing college sports landscape.