COLUMBIA, S.C. — Bob Marcum, who served as athletic director at Kansas, South Carolina, UMass and Marshall, died just days after suffering a stroke. He was 87.
The athletic departments at South Carolina, UMass and Marshall announced Marcum's death Wednesday, a day after he died. Arkansas coach John Calipari, who worked with Marcum at Massachusetts, posted on social media Sunday that Marcum was hospitalized following complications from a stroke.
Calipari posted about Marcum's death on Tuesday, saying the two spent time together in the hospital.
“We talked about our time together at UMass, he as athletic director and I as coach,” Calipari wrote. “We laughed, we cried and we prayed.”
Marcum worked as an athlete at Kansas from 1978 to 1982 before moving to South Carolina for six years. He headed the UMass athletics department from 1993 to 2002 before moving to Marshall and running that program until he retired in 2009.
