College of Charleston Athletics Director Joe Hull has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him in his current role until at least December 31st, 2016, the Post and Courier is reporting.
Hull, who is 57 years old, took over as the school’s AD in November of 2007, and the Post and Courier says that he will be paid $204,000 this year, along with approximately the same amount over the next two years.
The news comes the day after Hull informed members of the CofC men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams that unless they could raise at least $1.5 million, the 2014-2015 season would be their last.
Sources inside the athletics department have said that rumors are swirling internally that Hull has presented a plan that will eliminate swimming and replace it with lacrosse to “better align with the Colonial Athletic Association.” Last year, there were 6 teams that competed at the CAA men’s swimming & diving championships, and 8 at the women’s. Men’s and women’s lacrosse each had 6 sponsoring men’s and women’s teams last season.
Among Hull’s biggest accomplishments as the AD has been ushering the program from the Southern Conference to the Colonial Athletic Association.
Prior to coming to CofC, Hull was a senior athletics director at the University of Maryland: the last NCAA Division I program to successfully cut its swimming & diving programs. His primary role there was as a fundraiser, and he left that position a few years before the Maryland teams were cut.