EAST LANSING — Never in college athletics has there been this much pressure on an athletic director to get it right, to be both innovative and steady, to be malleable but also firm. New Michigan State ...

In his first six months as Michigan State’s athletic director, J Batt has directed a lot of change. “I feel like we're in a ...

As new Michigan State athletic director J Batt walked off the ninth green at Detroit Golf Club, his final hole of the Rocket Classic Pro-Am on Wednesday, June 25, Jonathan Smith sent up his personal ...

The current landscape of college sports is ever-changing, and for many, it has posed concerns. Nobody has to be more on board with it all, though, than an athletic director, who has to navigate ...

In July 2021, the NCAA implemented new rules allowing student-athletes to be paid for their name, image and likeness, birthing a three-letter acronym that has upended college athletics, NIL. Thursday ...

Detroit ― Officially, J Batt is less than two weeks into his new job as athletic director at Michigan State. But you wouldn't know it by the people he's met and the places he's gone. He's spent the ...

It has been 86 days since Michigan State University hired J Batt as athletic director, and already he is focused on the bigger picture, one that could include corporate naming rights for Spartan ...

J Batt has been Michigan State's athletic director a bit over two months now and has already made some big moves in his role. Batt's tenure at the helm, fair or not, is going to be heavily dictated by ...

New Michigan State athletic director J Batt is not letting any grass grow under his feet. He is already working the circuit trying to raise money for the new era of college sports that includes NIL ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Michigan State athletic director J Batt didn't get too brash when asked about how he would evaluate the school's relationship with Central Michigan after infamous sign-stealer ...