Six Believed Finalists For UI Job

Six names have been forwarded to the University of Idaho president’s office as candidates for the vacant athletic director’s job.

Recommended are: Oval Jaynes, who recently resigned as A.D. at Pittsburgh; Peter Hart, assistant A.D. at Utah; Dave Martin, associate A.D. at Oklahoma State; Jim Schaus, senior associate A.D. at Cincinnati; Bob Stull, former football coach at Missouri and Texas-El Paso; and Chris Peterson, assistant A.D. at Creighton.

Search committee chairman By- ron Dangerfield would neither confirm nor deny the names submitted to President Bob Hoover. Dangerfield said the list should not be viewed as finalists. Those will be determined by Hoover.

Interviews are expected to begin next month with a selection to replace Pete Liske anticipated near the end of September.

Jaynes, 56, has been A.D. at Pitt since 1991, resigning in July after a new president came in. He will remain until a successor is hired.

Jaynes was Colorado State’s A.D. from 1986-91. Prior to that, he was an associate A.D. at Auburn.

“Anytime you go through changes, people want to put their own teams together,” Jaynes said. “I haven’t had any conversations with the people at Idaho, other than a preliminary call last week.”

Hart, 37, was executive director of Utah’s Crimson Club, a fund-raising organization, for seven years before being promoted to assistant A.D. in July. Prior to Utah, he was finance director at the University of Connecticut and business manager at William & Mary.

Stull was an assistant football coach at the University of Washington from 1975-83. He was the head coach at UTEP from 1986-88, leading the Miners to a 10-3 mark in ‘88, UTEP’s last winning season. He then went to Missouri from 1988-93, compiling a 15-38 record. He’s been president/CEO of the boys and girls club of King County in Seattle the last three years.

Martin, who turns 48 Saturday, has been at Oklahoma State for 14 years, twice serving as interim A.D. He was a finalist for the Montana job last year that went to Wayne Hogan. He’s a former NCAA wrestling champion at Iowa State.

Schaus has been at Cincinnati three years. His previous experience included being an assistant A.D. at Northern Illinois (1992-94) and assistant A.D. at Oregon (1987-91).

Peterson recently joined the staff at Creighton as an assistant A.D. after four-year tenures at Nebraska and Kansas State. He is considered a strong fund-raiser.

Basketball

Idaho coach Kermit Davis announced that Marcus Wallace of Mountain Home, Idaho, has joined UI and will play this season. Wallace, a 6-foot-3, 210-pound forward, the 1994 Idaho player of the year, has spent the past two seasons at the College of Southern Idaho. Last season he averaged 19.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.

Wallace had signed at San Diego State, but was denied admission because one of his classes at CSI didn’t transfer, Davis said.

Veteran coach Ernie Wheeler was named by Davis as an administrative assistant who will work closely with the academic program. Wheeler was most recently a restricted earnings coach for Bobby Dye at Boise State. He has also been a head coach at Eastern Montana College (now Montana State-Billings) and Cal Poly SLO.

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