Chris Ault - spent 28 years as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, serving three stints from 1976-92, 1994-95 and 2004-2012. During that time, he posted a 234-108-1 record and guided the program from Division II to Division I-AA in 1978 and then to Division I-A in 1992. Ault also served as the athletics director at Nevada from 1986-2004. Following his retirement from Nevada in 2012, Ault spent two seasons as a consultant with the Kansas City Chiefs and then two years coaching in the Italian Football League....

Chet Gladchuk - has served as Director of Athletics at the U.S. Naval Academy for 22 years. He came to the Naval Academy in 2001 after four years in the same role at the University of Houston. Before serving at Houston, Gladchuk led his alma mater, Boston College, for seven years as its Director of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation. He was Director of Athletics at Tulane University from 1987-90 after a 1985-87 stint as an Associate AD at Syracuse University....

Jim Grobe - spent 40 years in coaching, including 20 years as head coach at Ohio University (1995-2000), Wake Forest (2001-13) and Baylor (2016). In 13 seasons at Wake Forest, Grobe led the Demon Deacons to five of the program's eight all-time bowl appearances (at the time). In 2006, Wake Forest won a school-record 11 games and defeated Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship to capture the school's second-ever ACC title. Grobe's work that year earned him ACC and National Coach of the Year honors....

Warde Manuel - is in his eighth year as Michigan's Director of Athletics. Manuel returned to U-M following a nearly four-year run as Director of Athletics at the University of Connecticut. Before taking over UConn, he led the athletics department at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo from 2005-12. Manuel graduated from U-M, where he played football under Bo Schembechler. He was coordinator of U-M's Wade H. McCree Jr. Incentive Scholarship Program from 1990 to 1993.

Randall McDaniel - was an All-American guard and four-year starter (1984-1987) for Arizona State University. Among his many other accomplishments, he helped the Sun Devils win the 1986 Rose Bowl in the program’s first-ever appearance. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1988 NFL Draft, McDaniel established himself as the standard by which linemen of his era were judged. Randall made an NFL-record 12 consecutive trips to the Pro Bowl and was awarded All-Pro Honors nine times over his 14-year career, making him one of the most decorated offensive linemen in NFL history. He is a Vikings Ring of Honor member and was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009. He was named to the NFL "All-Time" Top 100 Team in 2019....

Gary Pinkel - served as the head coach at the University of Toledo from 1991-2000 and the University of Missouri from 2001-15, compiling a career record of 191-110-3. Pinkel, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2022, has the most wins of any head coach in the history of both the Toledo Rockets and Missouri Tigers football programs, making him one of only three coaches to hold the distinction at two Division I programs. At his retirement, he stood 20th on the Football Bowl Subdivision all-time wins list....

Mack Rhoades - is in his seventh year as the Baylor Vice President & Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. NACDA's 2019-20 Under Armour AD of the Year and Sports Business Journal's 2021 Athletics Director of the Year, Rhoades has helped direct the Bears to 24 Big 12 championships and seven national crowns. He has hired three football coaches who led teams to New Year's Six bowl games and saw the Baylor men's basketball team claim the 2021 NCAA Championship. His vision of "Preparing Champions for Life" at Baylor seeks to enrich the student-athlete experience through academic achievement, athletic success, character formation and spiritual growth....

Mike Riley - totaled 48 years as a coach at the collegiate and professional levels, serving as the head coach at Oregon State from 1997-98 and 2003-14 and at Nebraska from 2015-17. Throughout his career, he has guided teams as a head coach in five different professional leagues: the Canadian Football League (CFL), World League of American Football (WLAF), National Football League (NFL), Alliance of American Football and the United State Football League (USFL)....

David Sayler - has been Miami (Ohio) University's Athletics Director since 2013. During his tenure, Miami (Ohio) has been a three-time winner of the Cartwright Award, recognizing the best athletics department in the Mid-American Conference in academics, community service and competitive results. Since Sayler - arrived on campus, Miami has won 56 conference championships, and, in 2015, the men's hockey team earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Much of that success comes directly from Miami's “Graduating Champions” fundraising campaign, which resulted in the addition of the Athletic Performance Center and the David and Anita Dauch Indoor Sports Center....

Will Shields - is one of the most highly decorated offensive linemen in football history. A former Outland Trophy winner and consensus All-American guard at the University of Nebraska, he played for the Cornhuskers from 1989-92. He is one of only 16 players in program history to have his jersey retired. In 1999, Shields was selected to the Walter Camp Foundation College Football All-Century Team and, in 2011, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. In the 1993 NFL Draft, Shields was a third-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs, where he would never miss a game in 14 seasons, starting 231 consecutive games at right guard. He went to the Pro Bowl every year from 1995 to 2006 to establish a Chiefs’ franchise record of 12 appearances, and in 2015 was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame....

Kelly Whiteside - spent 14 years at USA Today as a national college football writer and also specialized in reporting on the Olympics and World Cup. She has covered seven Olympic Games, nine World Cups (men's and women's) as well as the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and multiple college sports. Whiteside was the first female president of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). Before joining USA Today, she was a Newsday reporter and a Sports Illustrated staff writer. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times....

Carla Williams - is in her seventh year as Director of Athletics at the University of Virginia. During her time in Charlottesville, the Cavaliers have captured multiple national championships across numerous sports, including men's basketball (2019), men's lacrosse (2019 and 2021), women's swimming and diving (2021, 2022 and 2023) and men’s tennis (2022 and 2023). Under her leadership, UVA has also won 17 ACC championships...

Hunter Yurachek - is in his seventh year at the University of Arkansas, where the Razorbacks are in the midst of its most successful era in its history with three consecutive top-15 Directors' Cup finishes. Before that time, Arkansas earned only one top-15 finish in the first 24 years of the competition. Under his leadership, the Razorbacks have made its mark in one the most competitive conferences in the nation, leading all SEC programs with 33 conference championships in the past six years, including 25 titles in the past four years alone. Both marks lead all SEC programs....