Longtime Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir reportedly set to renounce

Bernard Muir, observed right here with longtime ladies’s basketball trainer Tara Vanderveer, is about to renounce after 13 seasons at Stanford. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Photographs)Bernard Muir’s time at Stanford is coming to an finish.The longtime athletic director is anticipated to renounce from his place within the close to long term, consistent with ESPN’s Pete Thamel. When that transfer will happen, or who will substitute Muir within the intervening time, remains to be unknown.Muir, 56, is wrapping up his thirteenth yr at Stanford, the place he helped oversee this system’s transition from the Pac-12 into the ACC. The Cardinal received greater than 30 NCAA titles and 8 Director’s Cups — which is awarded to the rustic’s best athletic division — beneath his watch.Regardless of the ones successes, on the other hand, each the soccer and males’s basketball groups have struggled. The soccer program hasn’t received greater than 4 video games for the reason that 2018 marketing campaign, which used to be the remaining time they reached a bowl recreation. The lads’s basketball workforce made the NCAA match simply as soon as within the remaining 17 seasons. This system these days holds a 17-10 list within the first yr beneath new head trainer Kyle Smith.The ladies’s basketball workforce used to be extremely a hit beneath his watch, despite the fact that that used to be because of longtime trainer Tara VanDerveer. She spent 38 seasons with this system ahead of she retired remaining spring, and she or he picked up a then-record 1,216 wins in her occupation. The varsity named the basketball court docket at Maples Pavilion after her.Muir used to be employed at Stanford in 2012 to switch Bob Bowlsby. He prior to now held the similar place at each Delaware and Georgetown, and he additionally labored as Notre Dame’s deputy athletic director. Muir has additionally been a member of USA Basketballs’ board of administrators and prior to now served because the chair of the NCAA Department I males’s basketball committee.