Glen Tuckett, who briefly served as Alabama’s athletics director as part of a five-decade career in college athletics, has died. He was 93.
Tuckett died Oct. 26 in Utah due to complications from a stroke, according the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. He was BYU’s baseball coach from 1959-76 and its AD from 1976-94.
After retiring from BYU, Tuckett was hired on an interim basis in September 1995 to take over an Alabama athletics department wracked by scandal. Predecessor Hootie Ingram had resigned after the Crimson Tide football team was hit with NCAA sanctions — including scholarship reductions, a bowl ban for 1995 and the forfeiture of eight victories from the 1993 season — stemming from illegal benefits received by former players Antonio Langham and Gene Jelks.
Tuckett stayed at Alabama until June 1996, when Bob Bockrath was hired as the Crimson Tide’s permanent AD. He retired back to Utah with wife Josephine, who died in 2020.
A Utah native, Tuckett coached the BYU baseball team to 445 victories and two College World Series berths before ascending to the athletics director’s chair. As AD, he oversaw the Cougars’ emergence as a national power in football under coach LaVell Edwards, culminating in a national championship in 1984.
Tuckett is survived by four daughters, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Saturday in Provo, Utah.