CORAL GABLES, Fla. —Kirby Hocutt was hired as Miami's athletic director Friday, replacing Paul Dee.

Hocutt was athletic director at Ohio University since 2005. The former Kansas State linebacker also spent six years in Oklahoma's athletic department, where he helped oversee a major fundraising campaign.

Dee, Miami's athletic director since 1993, announced plans to resign in May and is expected to join Miami's faculty on June 1. His time as AD was highlighted by the Hurricanes' 2001 national football championship, two national titles in baseball and the construction of Miami's $48 million campus basketball arena.

Ex-University of Hawai'i athletics director Herman Frazier was a candidate for the job.