AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Nathan Pine is out as director of athletics at Air Force, the school announced Friday night.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the school said the Department of the Air Force had informed the Air Force Academy Athletic Corporation (AFAAC) that Pine\u2019s service in that role was \u201cno longer accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
No further explanation was provided. Pine remains under contract as an employee of the AFAAC. His contract was scheduled to run through 2028 after being given an extension in \u201923. <\/p>\n
Nancy Hixson will step in on an interim basis.<\/p>\n
Pine announced the hiring of men\u2019s head basketball<\/a> coach Joe Crispin in March. Crispin inherited the program from Joe Scott<\/a>, who mutually parted ways with the Falcons earlier this year after he was suspended pending an investigation into his treatment of cadets.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Nathan Pine is out as director of athletics at Air Force, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[64,13672,4439,1318,368531,368532,8132,368530,368529,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-911390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-business","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-football","tag-joe-crispin","tag-joe-scott","tag-military-and-defense","tag-nancy-hixson","tag-nathan-pine","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116860111478997877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}