J Batt: Michigan State Athletics Director

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Plenty to do for J Batt, but Michigan State football is clear priority

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J Batt is Michigan State's new athletic director.

The 43-year-old says his job is to support coaches through resource allocation, structural adjustments, and staffing improvements.

At the forefront for Batt , will be reinvigorating MSU ’s football program.

The program has not finished higher than third in its division of the Big Ten since 2017 .

Batt is MSU ’s first athletic director hired with no ties to MSU since Merritt Norvell ( 1995-99 ) Batt is the first person to lead the Spartans who arrives already having worked as an AD since Merrily Dean Baker ( 1992-95 ), who hired both Izzo and Saban .