{"id":4322,"date":"2020-04-04T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:06:20","slug":"fordham-athletic-director-dave-roach-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"Fordham Athletic Director Dave Roach Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in April 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Fordham Athletic Director Dave Roach announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter much thought and reflection, I have decided to retire at the end of June,\u201d Roach, 70, said in a statement. \u201cIt has been an exceptionally satisfying and rewarding forty-five years in intercollegiate athletics, and I am incredibly grateful for all that my time in athletics has given me. It is far more than I ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his hiring in 2012, Roach oversaw improvements to Fordham\u2019s athletic facilities, including a multimillion dollar project to install a new floor at the Rose Hill Gym this past summer. He also oversaw the success of Fordham\u2019s softball (six straight A-10 titles), women\u2019s basketball (two NCAA Tournament appearances) and baseball (A-10 champions in 2019) teams. He also oversaw the contract extension of Fordham Men\u2019s Basketball coach Jeff Neubauer in 2016; the Rams have finished last in the Atlantic 10 each of the last three years, with just nine conference victories in that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFordham and its student athletes are deeply grateful to Dave for his eight seasons of leadership on and off the field,\u201d said Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the university, in a statement. \u201cI know the Fordham community joins me in thanking Dave for his long service, and in wishing him a joyful retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports also surfaced on Friday that Fordham was looking to make changes in the men\u2019s basketball program that would include a new head coach, but nothing has been made official by the school.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2020\/04\/03\/fordham-poised-to-announce-major-changes-within-athletic-department\/\">ZAGSBLOG.com\u2019s Adam Zagoria is reporting<\/a>&nbsp;that a change involving Neubauer could take place by Monday. The team has lost 64 games in the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in April 2020. On Friday, Fordham Athletic Director Dave Roach announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. \u201cAfter much thought and reflection, I have decided to retire at the end of June,\u201d Roach, 70, said in a statement. \u201cIt has been an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fordham Athletic Director Dave Roach Announces Retirement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}