SALT LAKE CITY—Utah Director of Athletics
Mark Harlan bolstered his executive staff today by promoting
Kyle Brennan to Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Athletics Director for Internal Operations and naming Scott Kull Deputy Athletics Director for External Operations. Kull was Harlan's deputy A.D. at the University of South Florida from 2016-18 and has been serving as USF's interim athletics director since Harlan departed for Utah in June.
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Kyle Brennan has been invaluable, not only to me, but to everyone in Utah athletics during the transition period between (former AD) Chris Hill's retirement and my appointment as Utah's director of athletics," said Harlan.
About his new deputy AD Harlan says, "Scott Kull brings a wealth of college athletics administration experience and did a great job as our deputy athletics director at USF for the last two years. He will be a tremendous addition to our team and I was thrilled Scott wanted to join us here at Utah."
Under Harlan's structure, Brennan will manage the day-to-day internal operations of Utah athletics, including compliance, facilities, equipment, event management, finance, human resources and academic support, as well as overseeing sport supervisors. Kull will supervise development, communications, marketing, ticketing, multi-media, branding, licensing and alumni relations.
Brennan and Kull are reuniting at Utah, having previously worked together at TCU in 2005-06—Brennan as the compliance director and Kull as the associate athletics director for external operations.
Brennan left TCU to become the compliance director at Ball State (2006-08) before coming to Utah as the assistant athletics director for compliance. In his 10 years at Utah, he has received promotions to associate A.D. for compliance, special assistant to the athletics director, senior associate A.D. for administration, deputy athletics director and now chief operating officer.
Kull's previous stops were at Florida (1992-93), Georgia Tech (1993-94), Ohio State (1994-97), Florida State (1997-2005), TCU (2005-16) and USF (2016-18). He began his career as a graduate assistant in ticketing at Florida and a marketing intern at Georgia Tech before Ohio State hired him full time as an assistant director of marketing. He was the marketing director at Florida State, earning promotions to assistant and associate A.D. during his time there, before moving into external relations at TCU and USF.