Bob Goin

Goin was a 1959 graduate of Bethany College in West Virginia, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Goin returned to Bethany in 1960 as an assistant football coach.

Goin servined as athletic director and chair of the physical education department at Bethany from 1970 to 1976, and as a tenured professor. From 1976 to 1979, Goin served as assistant athletics director at West Virginia University, and spent two years, from 1979 to 1981, as athletic director at California University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Goin served five years, from 1990 to 1994, as the athletic director at Florida State, guiding the Seminoles into membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He resigned after an ethics investigation resulting from hiring a contractor to replace his home's roof who was also doing a multimillion-dollar construction project for the university.

During his tenure at Cincinnati, which began in 1995, the school joined the Big East Conference and developed the Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village, a comprehensive $80.3 million athletic facilities enhancement. Cincinnati's sports teams posted a combined winning percentage of nearly .600 in the past eight years, claiming 29 conference titles, making 49 postseason appearances and producing 39 All-Americans under his leadership. Nationally, the most notable event during his Cincinnati tenure was the firing of basketball coach Bob Huggins.

Goin served on the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet and the NCAA Football Bowl Certification Subcommittee.

Goin was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013 and the University of Cincinnati athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. He was also a member of the Penn Hills High School and Bethany College Halls of Fame and was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Phi Kappa Tau Hall of Fame in 2006.

Goin died after a heart attack on October 12, 2019, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.[2][3]