Wearing a gold tie that he’s kept for many, many years, perhaps in hopes of one day wearing it at Georgia Tech, and a ring commemorating the Yellow Jackets’ football national championship in 1990, Todd Stansbury sat in what will become his office as athletic director. He looked so comfortable, it was as if he didn’t leave Tech in 1995 to circumnavigate the globe with his wife Karen.
Between 1995 and Thursday, when he was introduced as the institute’s ninth athletic director, Stansbury first toured the Earth and then took what he learned as a student at Tech and linebacker under coach Bill Curry, and then as an athletic administrator under Homer Rice, and applied it to jobs at Houston, East Tennessee State, Oregon State, Central Florida and then again in Corvallis, where he spent the past 1½ years as athletic director.