Longtime Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir reportedly set to surrender

Bernard Muir, noticed right here with longtime girls’s basketball trainer Tara Vanderveer, is about to surrender after 13 years 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 surrender 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, continues 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 gained greater than 30 NCAA titles and 8 Director’s Cups — which is awarded to the rustic’s most sensible athletic division — below his watch.Regardless of the ones successes, then again, each the soccer and males’s basketball groups have struggled. The soccer program hasn’t gained greater than 4 video games because the 2018 season, which used to be the closing time they reached a bowl recreation. The boys’s basketball staff has made the NCAA match simply as soon as within the closing 17 seasons. This system recently holds a 17-10 checklist within the first yr below new head trainer Kyle Smith.The ladies’s basketball staff used to be extremely a hit below his watch, even though that used to be because of longtime trainer Tara VanDerveer. She spent 38 seasons with this system sooner than she retired closing spring, and he or she picked up a then-record 1,216 wins in her occupation. The college named the basketball courtroom at Maples Pavilion after her.Muir used to be employed at Stanford in 2012 to interchange 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.