Michigan State announced Thursday that it is seeking a new athletic director and Haller is leaving the university.

Men's basketball coach Tom Izzo and Jen Smith, MSU’s deputy athletic director, will serve as co-interim athletic directors.

Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller is out after nearly five years of leading the department. Haller, a former Spartans football player who has worked for MSU athletics since 2010 after more than a decade with the university's police department,