Purdue hires Mike Bobinski as next athletic director Mike Bobinski discusses his vision for Boilermaker athletics as Purdue President Mitch Daniels, left, and trustees chair Mike Berghoff, who led the search committee, share in the announcement. All told, Burke oversaw 20 regular-season conference championships and 13 tournament titles.Similar excellence was expected in the classroom, and student-athletes regularly performed equally to or better than the overall student body. Butikofer started at Purdue in July 2017. She left Purdue from 2000- 2004, to serve as the Program Director for the Athletic Training Education Program at Eastern Kentucky University. Working with coaches and staff, he set aggressive goals. Intramural Sports Club Sports Purdue Sports Boiler Up. Purdue was one of merely three schools in the nation to play in a football bowl game, the NCAA mens basketball tournament and the NCAA womens volleyball tournament in 2017-18 and 2018-19 (also Kentucky and Michigan). Sources:Mitch Daniels,president@purdue.edu, Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (765) 494-4600, 2015-22 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Copyright Complaints | Maintained by Office of Strategic Communications. In a statement by Purdue Athletics, Burke died at his home after a year-long . Walters, most recently Illinois' defens +2 Ryan Walters' defensive background a shift for. Morgan Burke seeks successful finish to long tenure as Purdue athletic He was 68.Since retiring as athletics director, Burke was a university vice president for special projects, most notably working on the launch and development of Purdue University Global.Morgan left an indelible mark on Purdue Athletics, and thousands of student-athletes benefited from his faithful leadership, Purdue President Mitch Daniels said (see message to campus). Purdue vice president and athletics director Mike Bobinski announced the hiring of Dr. Ken Halpin as deputy athletics director on Wednesday. One of Purdue's top choices for a new athletic director in Josh Whitman, a Lafayette native and up-and-coming AD candidate with a lot of new, innovative ideas was hired away by Illinois.He was a favored choice by many including Jeff Washburn of the Lafayette Journal & Courier. Halpin received a Ph.D. in education from Washington State University in 2015 and a Masters in sport administration from Gonzaga University in 2008. Bobinski is just the fourth full-time athletics director at Purdue since 1942, following Guy Red Mackey (1942-71), George King (1971-92) and Morgan Burke (1993-2016).