Manuel expected to be named new UM AD

(Photo: UConn)Warde Manuel, a former Michigan football player and U-M athletics administrator, currently the Connecticut athletic director, is expected to be named Michigan’s next athletic director by the end of the week, according to multiple sources.

Manuel, 47, replaces interim athletic director Jim Hackett, the former Michigan football player and CEO of Steelcase, who took the job after Dave Brandon resigned on Oct. 31, 2014. In that time, Hackett hired Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and negotiated an apparel deal with Nike.

Details of the contract are being finalized.

The story was first reported on by ajerseyguy.com, a blog written by former Boston Globe reporter Mark Blaudschun.…