Florida State set to hire alum Purinton as AD, sources say

Florida State is set to hire Jeff Purinton as its next athletic director, sources told ESPN, with an announcement expected later Monday.

Purinton is a Florida State alum who spent more than a decade working at the school when Bobby Bowden was the head coach. He also worked for more than a decade at Alabama with Nick Saban, moving all the way up to executive deputy director of athletics before becoming the athletic director at Arkansas State in 2022. Purinton left there in 2025 to become Learfield executive vice president.

Florida State fired athletic director Michael Alford in September. At the time, school president Richard McCullough said he wanted to hire an athletic director who could…