Football
- Title:
- Executive Director of Player Development and University Relations
- Email:
- stroudc@usc.edu
- Phone:
- (213) 740-4204
Clarke Stroud, who had spent 30 years in various leadership roles at Oklahoma, enters his fourth season on USC's support staff. Prior to the 2025 season, Stroud took on the role of Executive Director of Player Development and University Relations. From November 2021-2024, he served as the Director of Football Operations.
Stroud, 56, spent the previous 4 seasons (2018-2021) as Oklahoma’s director of football operations. The Sooners won the Big 12 title in 2018, 2019 and 2020, made a pair of College Football Playoff semifinal appearances in 2018 and 2019 (in the Orange and Peach Bowls, respectively) and also played in the Cotton Bowl in the 2020 season and the Alamo Bowl in 2021.
Before joining Oklahoma’s football program, he served as the university’s vice president of student affairs and dean of students for 18 years (2000-18). He supported OU’s 30,000 students system-wide, oversaw approximately 1,500 employees reporting through 18 directors and administered an annual budget of approximately $80 million. In 2008, he received OU’s Otis Sullivant Award for Perceptivity.
From 2013 to 2021, Stroud also was an adjunct instructor in OU’s College of Education, teaching both freshmen and graduate-level courses. He received Oklahoma’s Outstanding Instructor for Freshmen Seminar Award in 2010.
He was the director of the Oklahoma Memorial Union for 3 years (1997-2000) after serving as OU’s assistant director of housing and food services for 3 years (1994-96). He joined the Oklahoma staff in 1992.
At the appointment of Oklahoma governors Brad Henry and Mary Fallin, he served on the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority board of directors for 11 years (2009-2019).
Stroud's community service involvement in Oklahoma is extensive and has included serving as coordinator of the Lincoln Elementary Watch D.O.G.S. program and Leadership Norman, co-coordinator of the United Way campaign for the OU Norman campus, on the board of directors of the Cleveland County CASA and the Second Chance Animal Sanctuary, member of the Citizens Committee overseeing construction of the Cleveland County jail, member of the Norman Rotary Club and coach for the Norman Youth Soccer Association. He also was a member of a local improvisational comedy troupe in Norman.
He received his bachelor’s degree in public administration in 1990 and his master’s degree in student personnel in 1993, both from Oklahoma.
He attended Overland High in Aurora (Colo.).
Stroud was born on Jan. 31, 1968. He and his wife, Robin, have two sons, August and Callahan.
