Florida State has turned to a familiar football staffer to guide the athletics department through a transition.
Bruce Warwick, who serves as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Football, has been named interim athletic director after the firing of FSU Vice President and Director of Athletics Michael Alford. Warwick has been on Florida State’s staff since 2019 and has been closely connected to the football program throughout that time.
In the interim role, Warwick will handle the athletics department’s day-to-day operations while the school moves through the transition period.
“It is important that we remain dedicated to providing continuity and support to our student-athletes, coaches and staff, who remain our top priority,” Warwick said via school release.
Warwick’s Florida State bio shows just how deeply he’s been embedded in the program. He was named Florida State football’s chief of staff on December 28, 2019, and is now in his seventh season at the school. He sits on the athletic department’s leadership team and works across the program’s administrative side, coordinating with the coaching, recruiting, operations, academics and communications staffs.
Before arriving in Tallahassee, Warwick spent eight seasons as director of operations for the Rams after three years as assistant to the head coach. His time with the organization ran from 2009-15 in St.
Louis before continuing with the move to Los Angeles from 2016-19. He oversaw the logistics for that relocation, handling operations for players, coaches and front office staff, and helped with the building of four fully operational team facilities and two business operation sites while making sure daily operational and technical needs were met, along with NFL gameday requirements.
With the Rams, Warwick worked under three different head coaches. He handled travel operations, organized training camps and oversaw construction at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. During that stretch, the Rams won back-to-back NFC West titles and reached Super Bowl LIII in 2018 after a 13-win regular season.
His resume also includes stops at Tennessee, Duke, Green Bay, Syracuse, Maryland and Clemson. At Tennessee, he served as assistant athletic director for football operations in 2007 and 2008 as the Volunteers reached the 2007 SEC Championship Game and finished with 10 wins after beating No.
18 Wisconsin in the Outback Bowl. At Duke in 2006, he was director of player personnel and played a major role in recruiting while also serving as the program’s liaison for academic support, community relations, ACC officials, computer technology and the Iron Dukes.
Warwick spent six seasons with the Green Bay Packers from 2000-05 as assistant to the general manager and director of football administration, overseeing staff in strength, video, training room, equipment and player programs. He also managed training camp and mini-camps, handled coaching and personnel staff contracts and new hires, ran the minority internship program and served as a liaison to the NFL office and officials.
His career started at Syracuse, where he was a football administrative graduate assistant in 1991 before returning as director of football operations from 1996-99. During that second stint, Syracuse won three straight Big East championships from 1996-98. In between, he worked in football operations at Maryland for two seasons and was Clemson’s assistant athletic director for football management from 1994-95.
Warwick earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Columbia College in 1989 and his master’s in sport management from the U.S. Sports Academy in 1993. He and his wife, Debra, have three sons: Alexander, Joseph and Jacob.
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