In announcing Bill Beekman as interim athletic director on Feb. 5, Michigan State interim president John Engler said that the school would shortly begin a "nationwide search" and that "no internal candidates will be considered" in that search.
After a June 22 Board of Trustees meeting, trustee Brian Mosallam said that a new athletic director wouldn't be hired "anytime soon," and that he wanted the school's permanent president to make that hire next year.
Twenty-four days later, Mosallam and Engler stood at the press conference as Beekman was announced as the school's permanent athletic director on Monday morning on campus.