Daryl Gross is out as Syracuse's athletic director.
According to Syracuse.com, Gross will resign from his position and remain with the university.
His resignation comes less than two weeks after Syracuse was penalized for NCAA violations dating back to 2001. While the men's basketball team was forced to vacate wins and coach Jim Boeheim was suspended for the first nine games of 2015-2016, the football team was placed on probation and also forced to vacate wins from 2004-2006.
Syracuse's violations included academic misconduct, impermissible benefits, violations of drug testing policies and also illegal conduct from its boosters.
Part of the NCAA's report said Gross was involved in the setup of a January 2012 meeting with university officials that discussed keeping basketball player Fab Melo eligible. The university then went to work to change a grade for Melo for a class from nearly a year prior to get him back on the basketball court.
Gross has been with Syracuse for over nine years. In his tenure, the school made the switch from the Big East (now the American Athletic Conference) to the ACC in 2013. According to the biography on Gross' staff page, the school champions the conference move as quadrupling its television revenues. Per Syracuse.com, federal documents show that Syracuse's athletic revenue was $87 million in 2014 while its expenses were $72 million.
Under coach Scott Shafer, Syracuse football went 7-6 and 4-4 in the ACC in its first year in the conference and won the Texas Bowl over Minnesota. In 2014, the Orange slid back to 1-7 in the conference and finished 3-9.
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