The Wait is Over: New Athletic Director is Named
by Hire Esherick on Apr 14, 2010 8:07 PM EDT
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In a search that lasted almost a year, Georgetown has finally decided on an athletic director to take over Bernard Muir's spot, which is currently being filled by Professor Dan Porterfield. The Plain Dealer reports:
Thursday, [Cleveland State athletic director Lee] Reed will be announced as the next AD for the Big East basketball power, ending what at least one person in Washington, D.C. called "a very long process" to fill the Hoyas position, which has been vacant since last June.
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Now I am not going to pretend like I know anything about Reed, because I have no idea about him or his background, even after looking at his resume. What I do know is that the Georgetown Athletic Department has a lot of problems, the majority of which have absolutely nothing to do with basketball. The football team has won one game in two years and plays home games on a half-baked field with temporary bleachers. We have a number of nationally ranked teams, including track and lacrosse, but the state of our facilities is atrocious and one sport financially supports the other 28 that Georgetown offers. The AD position at Georgetown is not an easy one; Muir left for the greener pastures of Delaware after only four years on the Hilltop, and there are a lot of pressures from various sources within the administration to create success with very little financial resources.
Muir tried to focus on football, and failed miserably. The Multi-Sport Facility was once labeled an "unremarkable rectangle" by the New York Times and sits unfinished in the middle of campus, eagerly awaiting the " two-story press box with VIP seating, sports lighting and sound system, a digital video screen and scoreboard," initially contemplated. This will forever be Muir's legacy as AD of Georgetown. I sure hope Reed is able to leave a better impression.
He is already off to a good start, however, as he won a game at the Carrier Dome while AD of Cleveland State in 2008, something Thompson the Third and his staff have yet to do.
Welcome aboard Reed, email me if you want a headband.
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That Would Be Unbelievable
Tough for the young alums to get there, but plenty of incentive…
by The Ambassador on Apr 14, 2010 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions
A lot of money
is going to the multi-sport field, so this one would be a tough one to get, but a steal nonetheless.
Why have Villanofun when you can have Georgetown?
by ChrisWright'sSleeve on Apr 14, 2010 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions
supposedly that is going to be funded soon
no more temporary seats!
next step is a practice facility or bye bye to jt3
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 14, 2010 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Funded??? Really???
As an old football alum, I wish/pray that the MSF project would get restarted. No commitment to get this done is really hurting Georgetown’s teams that plan to use these facilities. GU has done a terrible job communicating the timeline or vision on how to move this project forward.
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Cue the bashing football comments, but remember this is a very visible reminder of the administrations lack of commitment to current and future student-athletes.
... straight for a touchdown... I mean Rebound
by glackensghost on Apr 15, 2010 9:10 AM EDT up reply actions
going to be funded...
apparently some big donors were holding out, the school has apparently engaged in discussions with them again.
this is all speculation from different sources within athletics and fundraising. the future of gtown athletics is:
(1) finish MSF
(2) build practice facility
(3) renovate mcdonough to hold 10k+
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions
third rail is an interesting read
gtown cant cut sports teams, but needs to find a way to make sports less of a financial drain.
need endowment scholarships, to date the basketball team only has 1, yet has had 20+ players drafted to the NBA
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions
interesting point
Is there any restriction on pros setting up schollies? And is the current 1 endowment from a former player, or some othe wealthy alum?
Might be an extra arrow in our quiver to have the ‘Zo Scholarship for Big Men, etc. We can’t throw cash around Calipari-style, but could market the prestige angle, as something for high schoolers to compete for.
KBE
ive heard from multiple sources
that the only person that can ask former players for donations is big john. he wont allow folks in fundraising to ask directly.
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions
not sure why
but for some reason I’m picturing the Cap’s training facility in Ballston, which they put on top of the mall parking lot. It only holds 1200, but I think it has 2 NHL-sized ice rinks – a basketball court would be smaller, with more room for seats. They wouldn’t necessarily have to build a mini-Verizon and get rid of all the retail and parking currently there.
The first step is actually getting Arnie and a horse to trash the inside of the place so the price falls even more.
Mad pipe dreams, alas.
KBE
There’s no way we could ever buy the mall and even if we did manage to buy it we’d never be able to do anything with it. The traffic on M st. is a clusterfuck as it is. No one would ever be able to drive to the games and the closest metro’s aren’t realistically in walking distance.
Besides the fact that the neighborhood will block anything that will add more traffic to the Georgetown area.
While we’re throwing out completely unrealistic ideas, let’s build an island in the middle of the potomac and build an arena there, or Buy Teddy Rosevelt Island or the Park next to the Hospital.
think OUTSIDE the box
gtown would rent the kennedy center parking lot for games and then provide access to the new arena on wisconsin and m through
(1) bus
(2) ferry
(3) hovercraft
come on now.
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Zoning anything off campus is absolutely bitch
besides fundraising, overcoming the neighbors to get the zoning done is by far the biggest hurdle.
by bunk moreland on Apr 15, 2010 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Even Better Idea..
Demolish Darnall (controlled implosion, affecting all the business below it, minus Epicurean of course) and build an arena there..
Elephant in the room
Excellent discussion of fantasy land thus far. Gtown hired some dude from Cleveland State as AD! I’m sure a guy coming from a small school with middling athletic success and with no ties to the area will be a great fundraiser and immediately purchase a plot of land on M Street. What could go wrong?
by itsallthatmatters on Apr 15, 2010 9:51 AM EDT reply actions
the fact that it took one year to hire him is troublesome
gtown athletics is in a bad place right now
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions
we don’t know this guy. Maybe the administration saw something in the interviews that really impressed them. Until he proves he doesn’t deserve it we all need to give him our support.
by hoyasincebirth on Apr 15, 2010 10:09 AM EDT reply actions
A bold statement of irrelevance...
itsallthatmatters hits on the bigger point here. Bernard Muir was (and likely will be again) a rising super star in AD world. He leaves for Delaware after narrowly missing positions at Duke and Indiana. He clearly wanted/needed to distance himself from Georgetown as quickly as possible. Now, nearly a year later, after an exhaustive national search led by JJD and full time English Professor/Part time interim AD Porterfield (drum roll please…) dude from Cleveland State is the guy to lead us to new facilities, bigger endowment and, above all, more resources for basketball???
No up and coming hot AD. No distinguished alum looking to return back to the Hilltop to reinstate glory to once great LAX and track programs. No experienced AD from a peer program to bring better operational practices to McDonough. It is so sad but so predictable.
The reality is that Healey has no plans for the athletic department other than just to sunset all of these programs except for basketball. This hire is proof of that. Just hire someone to smile and keep the peace – JT3 reports to JJD so stay out of his way and try to keep the duct tape shiny.
I agree with the stay out of JT3’s way part, by the way. Its just that if the department deteriorates around JT3, fundraising will be more difficult and ultimately there will be an impact on basketball. And God forbid if JT3 ever moves on to greener pastures. I hope Mr. Reed surprises and delivers but I think Porterfield and JJD have some ’splainin to do.
by GrittyCrusader on Apr 15, 2010 11:50 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
What other candidates would want the job?
The Georgetown administration is notoriously bureaucratic and resistant to change.
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Look who's talking.
creates a Che Guevara JGD shirt
Why so Syracuse?
by HoyaJoker07 on Apr 15, 2010 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Practice Facility at Top of List for New AD
“I’ll work with our senior management team, and I’ll work with fundraisers in our athletic program to move forward in raising the money that is necessary to build that facility,” Reed said when asked whether he intended to make the project a priority. “Yes, it is critical to us.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041504073.html
Good talk.
Cleveland St.
No lacrosse program, no cross-country program and no football program (although with one win over the last 2 years, one could argue regretably that the Hoyas don’t have a football program either)…………
I don’t understand this appointment……
by MerlinWilson'sSister on Apr 15, 2010 10:13 PM EDT reply actions
simple
they searched for a year and NO ONE else would take the an AD job for a school with NO facilities, NO money and NO internal inertia.
let’s see what he can do, even though he isnt the official AD i wonder if he will be at the basketball banquet
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Apr 15, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
bring back Frank Rienzo?
after all, wasn’t he the one that allowed the Jevy’s to create this mess over the last 30+ years….???
by MerlinWilson'sSister on Apr 15, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
btw, very impressive that you are still posting at this hour.....
you quatro amigos appear to have abandoned you at this hour…..
I also think that another appeal should be made to ban JGD as a Primary Poster on here…… by tweeting directly with the players isn’t he violating the Public Service Announcement that is prominently displayed in the left hand column of the front page of this illustrious Global Phenomenon……?
I am very much opposed to communicating directly with our “super heores”….. they are young college kids… and doing their best to fulfill our Hoya fantasies (and frustrated intramural jock expectations)…….
I voted with you the last time… I will vote with you again….
by MerlinWilson'sSister on Apr 15, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe you should drum up support
With the 6 other logins you’ve created for the site.
georgetownfrontlawn.com
still wouldn't be enough votes to overcome
all the people you talked into posing on the front lawn for your panoramic promo
by MerlinWilson'sSister on Apr 16, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
That post
Made no sense.
Not my photo, I get no money for it, just thought it was a cool idea and tried to share it with other people through Casual Hoya.
Also, there are no people in the photo.
Any more brain busters?
georgetownfrontlawn.com
I will have to ponder your question
while enjoying 30% off my dinner bill tonight by eating at a restaurant that is not at full capacity
by MerlinWilson'sSister on Apr 16, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
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