To many, Duncan McKenzie is Mississippi State’s second-highest ranking official in the athletic department, the Executive Associate Athletic Director who runs (among many other things) State’s growing budget. To others, he’s a former MSU tight end, playing for the Bulldogs from 1974-77. Similarly, many in these parts know him as the Starkville native who starred at running back for the Starkville Academy Volunteers in the years preceding his college career.
Most of that ends next week, though. Duncan McKenzie, after 28-plus years in MSU’s athletic department and several more as a student-athlete, is retiring to live full-time as what he’s known to only a handful of people: a husband and a father.