West Virginia hires UNT's Baker as new AD

Key Facts

Baker is the athletic director at North Texas and emerged as one of the most respected young administrators in college sports since arriving there in 2016.
Baker has been choosy about his next step over the years, and has remained at North Texas in part because of that school's aggressiveness to keep him.
Baker is a former high school principal in Oklahoma, and his background includes a stint as a head college basketball coach and work as an athletic director at the Division II and NAIA level.
West Virginia still hasn't declared publicly whether football coach Neal Brown is returning, but his chances have increased significantly after closing with two wins in the last three games, including over Oklahoma and at Oklahoma State to finish 5-7.