UCI Narrows Athletic Director Candidates to Six

Darryl Rogers, former Detroit Lions coach, and Dan Guerrero, Cal State Dominguez Hills athletic director, are among the six finalists for the job of UC Irvine athletic director, sources confirmed Thursday.

Other finalists include Dennis Farrell, associate commissioner of the Big West Conference, and Tom Beckett, an associate athletic director at Stanford.

Irvine has declined to release the names of the six finalists.

Candidates are being interviewed by a 15-member committee this week and next week. The committee will submit its recommendation to Horace Mitchell, vice chancellor for student affairs and acting athletic director. The school hopes to name an athletic director in the next two weeks, filling a position that has been vacant since September, when John Caine was reassigned as a special assistant to the chancellor.