page_title: Jim Weaver (athletic director)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Jim Weaver (athletic director) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium being expanded during the 2005 Spring game. This round of expansion involved the creation of a new press box and new luxury seating.
context_page_description: James C. Weaver was a college athletics administrator and former American football player and coach. He was the athletic director at Virginia Tech from 1997 to 2014. He was a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: He played college football at Pennsylvania State University for Rip Engle and Joe Paterno and was later an assistant coach under Paterno.  After a year as an assistant at Iowa State University and a season as the interim head coach at Villanova University, Weaver left coaching.
  In 1983, Weaver was hired by the University of Florida athletics department in the wake of that school's NCAA sanctions.  From there, he moved on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to become the director of athletics in 1991.  Weaver resigned in 1994 in protest over the hiring of Tim Grgurich, who had been an assistant under the controversial Jerry Tarkanian, to be the school's new men's basketball coach.
  Following a short stay as Western Michigan University's director of athletics, Weaver was hired by Virginia Tech to replace the departing Dave Braine.  Under Weaver, Virginia Tech's athletics programs moved from the Atlantic 10 Conference to the Big East Conference and then to the Atlantic Coast Conference.  Lane Stadium was expanded twice, in 2002 and 2005. His accomplishments on behalf of the university led to his posthumous enshrinement into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. 
  He was succeeded by Whit Babcock, after retiring due to health reasons in 2014.
caption: Lane Stadium's 2005 west side expansion project, during the 2005 Spring Game
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