Six-member College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame Class of 2025 highlights Special Award honorees
From his time as a student assistant in the University of Alabama athletics communication office in 1995 to his current position as Vice President of Communications of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association/Goodyear Cotton Bowl,
Scottie Rodgers has been an instrumental leader in the profession and within the College Sports Communicators organization.
His career path has taken him from Alabama to the Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEC), the Ivy League, CSTV (formerly CBS Sports Network, now CBS Interactive), the NCAA, Tulane University and to the Sun Belt Conference prior to joining the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association (CBAA) in 2020.
Among his current responsibilities, Rodgers coordinates publicity and executes the social media and digital marketing strategies for the Classic, CBAA and Cotton Bowl Foundation and oversees media operations for the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic and the press box operations for all college games at AT&T Stadium.
As the first ethnic minority to serve in numerous roles at his various positions over almost 30 years, Rodgers currently serves as Chair of CSC's Inclusion Committee and as chair, oversees the CSC Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship which is in partnership with the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
Since September of 2020, Rodgers had served on CSC's Division I Cabinet. He is a 10-year member of the CSC Special Awards Committee and serves on the Black College Sports Information Directors (BCSIDA) Leadership Council. During the pandemic, Rodgers helped create CSC's Racial and Social Justice initiatives in June 2020.
Within CSC, Rodgers received his 25-Year Award in June 2020 and has been selected as a President's Award recipient twice for his committee work and dedication (June 2021 and June 2024).
On the executive board of the Black Sports Professionals North Texas Chapter as the Marketing & Communications Committee Chair, Rodgers also is a current member of National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), Minority Opportunities Athletic Association (MOAA), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.