Ian McCaw is a Canadian-American college athletics administrator. He has served as the
athletic director at
Liberty University since 2016, when he resigned amid
scandal from Baylor University.
In 2003, McCaw was named athletic director at
Baylor University. Under McCaw's direction, Baylor saw great growth and success as an athletic department,[3] winning four team national championships and 56
Big 12 Conference championships. McCaw's hiring of
Houston coach
Art Briles in 2007, propelled the
Bears football team to its greatest successes in program history, including
Robert Griffin III's
Heisman Trophy-winning season in
2011, back-to-back 11–2 records and Big 12 conference titles in the
2013 and
2014 seasons, and appearances in the
2014 Fiesta Bowl and
2015 Cotton Bowl. McCaw was named the Waco Tribune-Herald Sportsman of the Year in 2010,[4] NACDA West Region Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year in 2012,[5][6] and the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year in 2014.[7]
In 2015, amid the
Baylor University sexual assault scandal, the university hired law firm
Pepper Hamilton to investigate the university's handling of numerous sexual and non-sexual assaults by Baylor students and student-athletes. On May 26, 2016, the university announced that the firm's investigation had concluded that the football program specifically and McCaw's athletics department leaders generally failed to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player and to a report of dating violence. Investigators also concluded that the football program and athletics department leaders failed to take appropriate action in response to reports of a sexual assault involving multiple football players.[8] The university announced that it had "sanctioned" McCaw and placed him on probation.[8] He resigned his position at Baylor on May 30, 2016.[9]