Gophers name just one finalist for AD job: Syracuse's Mark Coyle

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Minnesota appears to be on the verge of hiring a new athletics director.

University president Eric Kaler named just one finalist for the vacant job Wednesday: Syracuse athletics director Mark Coyle.

Coyle hasn't been at Syracuse for a full year, taking over that gig in June 2015. Before that, he was the athletics director at Boise State and the deputy athletics director at Kentucky.

From 2001 to 2005, Coyle was the associate athletics director for external relations at Minnesota.

According to the school's announcement, Coyle will interview with the search committee Wednesday.

The job has been open since August, when former athletics director Norwood Teague resigned amid accusations of sexual harassment.

Since Teague's resignation, Beth Goetz has served as the interim athletics director, and a Tuesday report from the Star Tribune listed her as one of the final four candidates for the job, along with Northern Illinois athletics director Sean Frazier, Penn State deputy athletics director Phil Esten and an unnamed candidate, which might have been Coyle.

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