According to Ben Baby at the Dallas Morning News, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork is expected to become the next athletic director at Texas A&M. He is filling the position vacated when former athletic director Scott Woodward left for the same role at LSU last month. Bjork signed a contract extension in 2015 at a base salary of $700,000. Baby reports that the move is expected to be announced by A&M on Friday.

The report was confirmed by OMSpirit of the 247Sports network as well.

The Rebels achieved their highest Director’s Cup finish in their history under Bjork in 2016-17 at 39th among Division I institutions. In 2015-16, Ole Miss was the nation’s only school to win nine regular-season football games, 20 regular-season men’s basketball games and 40 regular-season baseball games, while the 2014-15 campaign saw the Rebels as one of only two to make a “New Year’s Six” bowl and the NCAA Tournament in men’s hoops and baseball. Under Bjork’s watch, the football team was one of just five to make the “New Year’s Six” in each of the first two years of the playoff.

Other highlights include the first College World Series appearance in 42 years, as the baseball team reached the final four in Omaha and captured the SEC Western Division title in 2014. After a 10-year absence, men’s basketball has advanced in the NCAA Tournament twice in the last five seasons, including 2013 when it claimed the SEC Tournament Championship. Softball claimed its first SEC Tournament title in the spring and made its second straight trip to the Big Dance after missing postseason each of its first 19 years of existence. Baseball, men’s hoops and softball are among Rebel programs to earn NCAA berths under Bjork’s watch, along with soccer (Sweet 16 in 2015), men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s track and women’s track.

The youngest athletics director of the 120 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs when hired at Western Kentucky last decade, Bjork has an extensive career in intercollegiate athletics with two decades of experience as an administrator and student-athlete, having worked on the senior staffs at UCLA, the University of Miami and the University of Missouri. He began his administrative career at WKU as an assistant development coordinator in 1996-97.

At WKU, Bjork spent time with all head coaches to evaluate and understand the necessary ingredients for each sport to reach its maximum potential athletically and academically. After he made a midseason coaching change, the Hilltopper men’s basketball team went on to capture the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Tournament title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. WKU’s football program posted the greatest one-season improvement in conference wins in the history of the Sun Belt in posting a 7-1 league mark and second-place conference finish.

Bjork is a native of Dodge City, Kan., and received his bachelor’s degree in recreation administration from Emporia State University in 1995, where he was a two-year starter at fullback. He earned a master’s degree in athletic administration from Western Illinois University in December 1996. Bjork is past president of the National Association of Athletic Development Directors. He and his wife, Sonya, have two boys: Payton and Paxton.