Dan Porterfield named Interim Athletic Director
Posted by: Juliana Brint in Sports, Vox Populi, tags: Athletic Director, Athletics, Bernard Muir, Dan Porterfield
With Athletic Director Bernard Muir’s departing for the greener fields of the University of Delaware in about a month, Georgetown has appointed Dan Porterfield Interim AD, according to an article in Blue & Gray (in print only, not online yet). Porterfield is Senior Vice President for Strategic Development and an Assistant Professor of English.
Although lately the “Interim” label has come to mean something along the lines of, “Someone We’ll Call ‘Interim’ Until We Go Through The Trouble of Hiring Them Permanently” (see: Chester Gillis) it looks like Porterfield’s tenure as AD will be more traditionally transitional.
From the Blue & Gray article:
A search process will begin to find a new leader for Georgetown’s athletics department, which oversees 29 varsity teams.
“Upon Bernard’s departure, Dan will be responsible for overall leadership of the department,” said DeGioia. “He will work closely with me and other senior leaders, coaches, faculty and alumni in the recruitment of the new athletic director, a process that we will launch in a few weeks.”
Update: The article can now be found online at GUHoyas.com.
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I am pretty sure that Georgetown College interviewed a whole host of candidates and then ultimately settled on Gillis for the position. I don’t think it was out of laziness, but rather because he emerged as the most qualified candidate.
Let’s not disparage the man because he was willing to take on a temporary appointment that required an awful lot of (sometimes thankless) work. And by assuming that he was hired the way you assert it, you do disparage him.
Sorry if it came off that way, not my intention whatsoever. I think Dean Gillis is great, I just wanted to point out that, given what’s in the Blue & Gray article, it seems like Dr. Porterfield’s stint as Interim AD will probably way briefer than the interim appointments we’ve seen recently. No disrespect intended.
dr. porterfield is the man!
Congrats, Dr. P!