By Mel Greenberg
PHILADELPHIA _ Bernadette McGlade is about to trade the countryside surroundings of the Atlantic Coast Conference office located alongside a golf course in Greensboro, N.C., for one in downtown Philadelphia, the home of the Atlantic Ten Conference of which she is about to intoduced Monday morning as its new commissioner.
Several women's basketball sources in the Guru's world confirmed the hire Sunday while other sources were confirming similar reports to Inquirer and Daily News men's college basketball beat writers. Additionally, the Charlotte Oberserver in North Carolina was also citing sources, according to its web site.
For McGlade, who is from nearby Gloucester City across the Delaware in New Jersey, it will be a homecoming to stay.
In 2000, she was in town as the head of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament committee when the Women's Final Four was held at the Wachovia Center.
McGlade's sister, Agnus Berenato, is currently the head coach of Pittsburgh, which has undergone a revival since her move from Georgia Tech several years ago.
McGlade was also a women's basketball coach of the Yellow Jackets before moving into administration. She is currently an associate commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, overseeing the league's high-powered women's basketball operation.
Linda Bruno, who had been commissioner for 13 seasons, came from a similar background at the Big East and was also a chair of the NCAA women's tournament committee.
McGlade, who played basketball at North Carolina with one of the Tar Heels' first athletic scholarships for women, is also supervisor of women's basketball officials over the ACC, as well as those in the Colonial Athletic Association, Big South and Southern Conferences.
She also served on NCAA-TV negotiating committee that landed a $6.2 billion deal from CBS and ESPN, considered the largest TV deal for any sporting event.
The men's writers at the two papers will be all over this story tomorrow but since the Guru has known McGlade personally from way back to her Georgia Tech days, which is why he was notified of the hire Sunday, the Guru decided to add to the growing list of reports to make your current blog visit worthwhile.
More Temple Names
The Guru knows why you're really here, based on the traffic that's been flowing since the Temple vacancy occurred when Dawn Staley left for South Carolina, here are some more potential candidates that have been mentioned to the Guru's ears.
None of the following have spoken personally to the Guru, but he has been made of aware of their support, whether or not they are actually interested in the position, from persons who may have been making calls to the search committee.
The group includes Pittsburgh assistant Shea Ralph, a former Connecticut star who would be the second person with Huskies DNA involved with Temple. The other is current longtime assistant Tonya Cardoza, considered high on the list and likely to get an interview.
Maryland assistant Erica Floyd has also been mentioned as has George Washington assistant Mike Bozeman. Floyd is a 13-year veteran in the profession who graduated from Ohio State in 1993 after starring for the Buckeyes.
Also, the Guru directs your attention elsewhere on Philly.com to the Sunday print story in sports in which new hire Kate Fagan, who starred at Colorado, went to Washington Saturday to the Mystics' WNBA game against Los Angeles to do a feature on Willingboro's Crystal Langhorne, the former Maryland all-American who was a first-round pick in April.
The Guru noticed an increase in google action in this direction since the mention of Kate's arrival several week's ago. That traffic means the Guru may have to cover her performance in the summer league, which starts in a few weeks, unless she can figure out how to write and play point guard at the same time -- a skill quite diffrerent than walking and chewing gun.
-- Mel
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