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Georgia Southern Athletic Director Jared Benko is our latest Difference Maker and discusses managing an athletic department during a pandemic, his plans to do more in Savannah and at the Armstrong campus and the Eagles' place on the college athletics landscape.

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(5:10): Influences growing up and at UGA

(12:10): Path to his role as athletic director at a Division 1 school

(15:33): What an athletic director does that people don't realize

(22:10): Reflection on challenges of 2020 football season with pandemic

(28:50): Changes in finances due to COVID pandemic

(36:50): Evolution of the Georgia Southern athletics program

(42:30): Future of Georgia Southern sports and Savannah

(47:05): Thoughts on Knight Commission's findings on future of NCAA football

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