Brad Bates
American college athletics administrator
About Brad Bates
Born 1959. Brad Bates is an athletic director.
Brad Bates (born c. 1959) is a former American college athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at Boston College from 2012 to 2017. He resigned in February 2017 to join the executive search and consulting firm Collegiate Sports Associates.
Bates was previously the athletic director at Miami University from 2002 to 2012. He also spent 17 years working in athletic administration at Vanderbilt University.
He played college football under Bo Schembechler as a defensive back at the University of Michigan where he received a varsity letter as a member of the 1980 team that won the 1980 Rose Bowl. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Michigan in 1981. During the 2015-16 academic year, Boston College went winless in the ACC in football and men's basketball and compiled an 8-70 record in football, men's basketball and women's basketball.
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American college athletics administrator
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Brad Bates. https://biography.guide/brad-bates/
MLA: "Brad Bates." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/brad-bates/.
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