Episode 17 ( Conversation with Kurt Esser)

In Episode 17 of The Sports Leadership Podcast, Kevin DeShazo and Mark Hodgkin continue their series on the role of the modern athletics director with a conversation with Seminole State College AD Kurt Esser. Kurt just finished his first year as AD after 15 years at Nevada and New Mexico, to fulfill a lifelong goal of being an athletics director. We talk about the challenges of being a first-time athletics director and some of his guiding principles.