Crumley received the promotion on Tuesday after working as Evans’ top assistant — executive associate athletic director for finance — since 2007. “Not to make light of it, but it will be business as usual,” Crumley said. Crumley said Evans’ arrest brought “some surprise and shock” to the athletic department. “I think it’s sort of shock but everybody is adjusting and happy to get back to work today. I know I was ... to get some normalcy back in it,” Crumley said. Adams selected a six-member search committee, headed by University of Georgia law professor David Shipley, to seek Evans’ permanent replacement. “This is one of the best five or six AD jobs in America, I believe, and I assure you there will be no shortage of interest,”. Adams said he is looking for “a person of integrity.” “I think in all these cases anyone you want already has a good job and so you have to work with someone else’s schedule other than your own,” he said. “I’m looking for someone who has a very high level of experience.” Adams said he hopes for an “expeditious” search, but Shipley said it is “overly optimistic” to suggest the search will end before 2011. Among the other search committee members are Georgia swimming coach Jack Bauerle, associate athletic director Carla Williams, and the student member of Georgia’s athletic board, Trey Sinyard.
Evans became the SEC’s first black athletic director in 2004 when he was hired by Adams to replace Vince Dooley, who had been at the school as football coach and athletic director for 40 years. Adams said he hoped Evans would provide continuity as a long-term head of the athletic department, but that plan was crushed by the embarrassing arrest on Wednesday.
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