|Barely a month after the USF Board of Trustees formally approved the expenditure of $407 million for construction of its on-campus stadium project, the athletic director who presided over the project’s evolution is leaving.

Seventh-year Bulls AD Michael Kelly, 54, is leaving for the same job at Navy, the Tampa Bay Times has learned. A formal announcement out of Annapolis is expected at some point Wednesday afternoon.

Kelly didn’t immediately respond to a text message Wednesday morning.

A Washington, D.C., native, Kelly will replace Chet Gladchuk, who retired in April after 24 years at Navy. Kelly’s father, Dennis, attended the U.S. Naval Academy and was a Naval officer who served in Vietnam. While growing up in the D.C. area, Kelly attended St. John’s College High School, an all-boys

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