Bryan Blair, largely seen as Pat Chun’s right hand man in the Washington State Cougars athletics department, is set to leave Pullman to become the next director of athletics at Toledo, as first reported by ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Blair — WSU’s deputy director of athletics and chief operating officer — is only 37, but he’s largely seen as a rising star in the collegiate athletics world. He is one of those people who’s not well known to most casual fans, but he has had his fingerprints on lots of significant initiatives within WSU’s athletics department, where he has worked for the past four years.