The search committee chosen to make recommendations regarding the University’s new athletic director will meet today at 1 p.m. to begin discussing current Athletic Director Skip Bertman’s replacement. The committee, headed by Jack Weiss, the chancellor of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center is expected to list the qualities they expect Bertman’s replacement to exhibit. “The committee’s first order of business is to decide what characteristics we need in a new [athletic director] to lead us through the next chapter in LSU athletics,” Chancellor Sean O’Keefe said in a news release. Parker Executive Search will also help the committee narrow its search. The Atlanta-based firm has more than 20 years experience in aiding colleges in coaching and administrative decisions. Former LSU softball player Emily Turner is one of the 14 members of the search committee. Turner told The Daily Reveille in December the committee is made up of members interested in the long-term well being of LSU athletics. “[The committee members constitute] a wide variety of people that are still involved with the LSU community and the Baton Rouge community as a whole,” she said. O’Keefe said he would like the incoming athletic director to go before the LSU Board of Supervisors for approval on April 24, giving the committee nearly three months to make its decision. Bertman will remain in his current position through June 2008. After that, he will serve as athletic director emeritus to aid the University with fund raising projects.
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