UC Irvine to Announce New Athletic Director

UC Irvine will name an athletic director today, filling a position that has been vacant since September, the school announced Sunday.

Big West Conference Associate Commissioner Dennis Farrell, former Houston Athletic Director Tom Ford, Cal State Dominguez Hills Athletic Director Dan Guerrero and former Detroit Lions Coach Darryl Rogers are the remaining candidates from six who were interviewed.

A press conference has been scheduled for 1 p.m. today at Irvine.

Earl Edwards, associate athletic director at UC San Diego, said Sunday night that he had not been contacted by Irvine officials. Tom Beckett, associate athletic director at Stanford, interviewed for the job but later withdrew.

The new athletic director will replace John Caine, who held the job for six years before being reassigned as a special assistant to the chancellor in September. Horace Mitchell, vice chancellor for student affairs, has been acting athletic director since Oct. 1. A 15-member search committee on Monday recommended from two to four names to Mitchell and Chancellor Jack W. Peltason.