Josh Brooks, moving on up…
J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks has been appointed to the Southeastern Conference Executive Committee, the league office announced Monday.
Brooks is one of just seven members on the 2025–26 committee, which oversees the financial and fiscal affairs of the SEC and is responsible for approving the conference’s annual operating budget and guiding long-term financial planning in coordination with the Office of the Commissioner.
Brooks will serve a two-year term (2025–27) as the committee’s lone athletics director representative, bringing valuable leadership experience and institutional insight to the group. The SEC Executive Committee is comprised of the three officers of the Conference and four individuals elected at the regular annual conference meeting. The elected members are composed of a Chief Executive Officer, Director of Athletics, Senior Woman Administrator and Faculty Athletics Representative.
Four national championships in one year might’ve garnered some recognition for Brooks. Just imagine what’ll happen once the gymnastics and women’s basketball programs regroup (hopefully) in the years to come.
For those who have made comments about Brooks, no one seems to agree with you. The guy has done pretty darn well at Georgia. I believe he was hired by CMR to lead the logistics of football operations and has risen to be a member of President Morehead’s cabinet.
He has much more of a fan-centric point of view than any athletic director in my lifetime … yes, that includes Vince Dooley (I’m too “young” to remember Joel Eaves).
He has responded multiple times to emails with a personal note (I’m no Magill member) and not a standard “Thanks for the feedback.” He was nice and cordial about the Senator’s passing and was willing to help support the tailgate (although I couldn’t get the space in the Railroad lot). On one particular topic, he called me to talk and was very gracious and appreciative of my family’s support of Georgia athletics.
I like Brooks … he didn’t grow up a Bulldog, but he is definitely one now.
Just a quick story about Joel Eaves. Upon graduation I got my season tickets and blessed to get them on the 50 just a few rows above the visitors bench. Heaven! Until I met my seat mates from South Georgia. Husband, wife and two daughters were all “Tennessee wide”. Guy’s ass literally touched the seat numbers on either side of his. My girlfriend and I suffered the squeeze the first season, but at the beginning of the next season I’d had enough and called the athletic office. Joel Eaves answered the phone himself, knew exactly who I was talking about, and the next week the family had been moved down and over a row. Simpler times I guess.
I don’t write big checks to the school, so I’m throwing rocks here. But how big does your ego need to be to fund a position with your own name? I appreciate that J. Reid Parker must love UGA, but to stipulate that your name be attached to the position so that it’s forever called out is strange to me. Same with professorships. For some reason, I guess scholarships don’t bug me the same way (and no, I never received any of those – I was a dumbass).
Anyway, carry on, and congrats (I guess?) to Brooks.
It’s an endowed position. The naming is part of the endowment as a benefit to the donor. Plenty of companies and individuals have endowed professorships across campus.
In this case, the son endowed the AD position in honor and memory of his father … a long-time UGA employee including as faculty in the forestry school and eventually in athletics.
https://georgiadogs.com/news/2013/11/7/UGA_Director_of_Athletics_Position_Endowed_by_John_and_Kay_Parker
Allow me to be “the one” as THE JURY IS STILL OUT on Josh Brooks. He may have the ability to reply with sweet salutations but has never sniffed at a Learfield Directors Cup. He (we) finished 14th this year (24/25) and was women’s tennis away from outside top 30. I’m a results kinda guy — the proof is always in the pudding. I’m pulling for him. But at this point, he’s no Chris DelConte or Greg Byrne (both pile up championships).
Dude, he’s trying to rebuild from the disastrous hires made by Big Ears.
He convinced the gymnastics GOAT’s personal coach to leave her gym and become a college coach after the GOAT’s retirement. Whether that works, we’ll see.
He brought in the coach who just won a women’s national track & field championship going away from a perennial powerhouse (USC). That coach came into Georgia and plucked the nation’s best high school 400 meter hurdler right under the entire SEC’s noses. That hurdler just appeared in her first Olympics.
He successfully hired the women’s tennis coach to follow and really build on the legacy of the prior coach.
On the facilities front, it’s exactly the same. He’s trying to catch up with all of those programs whose facilities were neglected by McGarity.
First rule of holes … that’s what Brooks has been doing. Stop the digging.
between McJughead and his predecessor, both creatures of the unlamented Mike Adams, a lot of damage was done to the overall program Coach Dooley helped put together. I am encouraged by Brooks so far. He has paid attention to facilities upgrades beyond football, and he seems to have hired pretty good coaches across the board. We are much more competitive, it seems to me, than we were 10 years ago. Just have to keep improving.
Golf and swimming are the next to be revived. The college golf facilities of today are way beyond what we have now.
Gabrielsen Natatorium needs/wants/desires more than a facelift, which means The Ramsey is included in the conversation and yes, The Golf Course requires more than a coat of paint and a bandaid…GO DAWGS!!
Or like White at Tennessee, which I dislike.
Miffed on the basketball coach