Overtime: What a surprising AD firing says about the job

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Pitt fired athletic director Heather Lyke on Monday, five days before the Backyard Brawl and amid a run of unusual success in Olympic sports. What happened? Well, it’s a story about how the job of the athletic director is shifting rapidly—under the feet of the people currently holding these roles.

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