Mike Mullally

{{Short description|American college athletics administrator (1939–2021)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|04|29}}

| birth_place = Pierre, South Dakota, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|7|15|1939|04|29}}

| death_place = Paris, Illinois, U.S.

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| admin_years1 = 1974–1979

| admin_team1 = Eastern Illinois

| admin_years2 = 1979–1981

| admin_team2 = Cal State Fullerton

| admin_years3 = 1981–1982

| admin_team3 = Boise State

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E. Michael Mullally (April 29, 1939 – July 15, 2021){{cite news |url=https://jg-tc.com/obituaries/edward-michael-mike-mullally/article_2db42454-455c-5479-96a8-86577ba8e73b.html |newspaper=Journal Gazette & Times-Courier |location=(Paris, Illinois) |title=Edward Michael 'Mike' Mullally |date=July 19, 2021 }} was an American college athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at Eastern Illinois University (1974–1979),{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1979/06/23/page/197/article/in-the-wake-of-the-news |work=Chicago Tribune |agency=(column) |last=Condon |first=David |title=Two who could be Illini's new chief |date=June 23, 1979 |page=1, sec. 2 }} California State University, Fullerton (1979–1981), and Boise State University (1981–1982).

At Boise State, Mullally succeeded longtime athletic director Lyle Smith in the summer of 1981.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2VVOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4-4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1093%2C5655115 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press |title=BSU names director |date=May 13, 1981 |page=C3 }} Less than a year later, Mullally resigned in March 1982 following criticism of his proposed ticketing policy for the school's football and basketball games.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TZlfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iTEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2859%2C484674 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press |title=BSU's Mullaly quits over ticket flap |date=March 2, 1982 |page=1C}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HdozAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EIcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4909%2C5002977 |newspaper=The Bulletin |location=(Bend, Oregon)|agency=UPI|title=Boise State sacks AD over ticket flap |date=March 2, 1982|page=D-3 }} Assistant athletic director Gene Bleymaier was promoted by university president John Keiser and held the post for more than 29 years.

Mullally owned several Checkers drive-in restaurants in the Kansas City area in the 1990s; by 2001 he had retired to Florida.{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2001/03/05/story7.html |work=Kansas City Business Journal |location=(Missouri) |title=Sonic builds, buys its way toward being Kansas City's drive-in |date=March 4, 2001 |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}