Cecil "Hootie" Ingram was Alabama's athletics director from 1989-95. He was also a football star for the Crimson Tide in the early 1950s, and spent many years as a coach and administrator at schools such as Clemson and Florida State and in the Southeastern Conference office. (Photo courtesy of the Paul W. Bryant Museum) Paul W. Bryant Museum

"We will miss Hootie dearly," Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "He was such a wonderful man and always greeted you with a big smile. Hootie left a lasting impact on The University of Alabama as both a student-athlete and administrator.

Hootie Ingram, who served as Clemson’s head coach from 1970-72, passed away Monday morning according to reports from WVUA in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and AL.com. He was 90 years old. Ingram was officially hired as Clemson’s head coach on Dec.

Cecil “Hootie” Ingram, a longtime college athletics administrator who was the athletic director at his alma mater, Alabama, and at Florida State during the Seminoles’ rise to national prominence, has died.

Cecil "Hootie" Ingram has died at 90. He was an All-SEC Alabama football player and later became athletics director for UA as well as Florida State.