Sources: Rice AD Tommy McClelland has emerged as the target of the Purdue athletic director search, which is expected to culminate this week. McClelland brings 18 years as a sitting athletic director and spent nearly four years at Vanderbilt as the football sport administrator.
McClelland has been the AD at Rice for nearly three years, hiring Scott Abell in football and Rob Lanier in basketball. He’s also been the athletic director at McNeese (2008-13) and Louisiana Tech (2013-20).
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