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Landslide vote paves way for first executive director
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By Josh Centor
The NCAA News
The NCAA News
After 50 years of relying on volunteers to run its organization, the College Sports Information Directors of America has decided to hire an executive director. An overwhelming vote supported the initiative at the group’s meeting in San Diego earlier this month.
“There is no other professional-development organization that deals with college sports information directors like CoSIDA, so there’s a need for someone who can move the organization forward,” said Charles Bloom, associate commissioner of the Southeastern Conference and incoming CoSIDA president.
In 1977, CoSIDA had 550 members. Just 30 years later, though, membership has increased fourfold to 2,216.
That type of growth has forced the CoSIDA membership to move from its current structure, which relies on a volunteer board of directors.
“We have a group of officers that works every year to do the workshop, the panels, the social programs and the special awards. It would help if someone could come in and set a path for us, both fiscally as well as with the workshop,” Bloom said.
Doug Dull, the associate director of athletics for media relations at the University of Maryland, College Park, said CoSIDA needs someone to set its future direction.
“We’re not meeting planners or corporate-sponsorship people — we’re SIDs,” Dull said. “Having somebody who can do the business of CoSIDA on a daily basis and not have to do interviews at the end of football practice or the next set of game notes for a volleyball match, will help us turn the corner.”
The expanding membership, as well as the changing world of media, has contributed to the organization’s need for a full-time executive director.
“Our roles as SIDs have changed so much with the technological advances. We can’t be as much of a volunteer-run organization as we used to be,” said Judy Willson, sports information director at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Dull said the new position will help SIDs increase their roles in athletics departments.
“CoSIDA getting an executive director is an attempt to improve our status in the intercollegiate athletics enterprise. It will help us be advocates for our membership at the highest levels of the industry,” Dull said.
The organization wants to fill the position by March 2008.
“There is no other professional-development organization that deals with college sports information directors like CoSIDA, so there’s a need for someone who can move the organization forward,” said Charles Bloom, associate commissioner of the Southeastern Conference and incoming CoSIDA president.
In 1977, CoSIDA had 550 members. Just 30 years later, though, membership has increased fourfold to 2,216.
That type of growth has forced the CoSIDA membership to move from its current structure, which relies on a volunteer board of directors.
“We have a group of officers that works every year to do the workshop, the panels, the social programs and the special awards. It would help if someone could come in and set a path for us, both fiscally as well as with the workshop,” Bloom said.
Doug Dull, the associate director of athletics for media relations at the University of Maryland, College Park, said CoSIDA needs someone to set its future direction.
“We’re not meeting planners or corporate-sponsorship people — we’re SIDs,” Dull said. “Having somebody who can do the business of CoSIDA on a daily basis and not have to do interviews at the end of football practice or the next set of game notes for a volleyball match, will help us turn the corner.”
The expanding membership, as well as the changing world of media, has contributed to the organization’s need for a full-time executive director.
“Our roles as SIDs have changed so much with the technological advances. We can’t be as much of a volunteer-run organization as we used to be,” said Judy Willson, sports information director at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Dull said the new position will help SIDs increase their roles in athletics departments.
“CoSIDA getting an executive director is an attempt to improve our status in the intercollegiate athletics enterprise. It will help us be advocates for our membership at the highest levels of the industry,” Dull said.
The organization wants to fill the position by March 2008.
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