UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

Matt Robinson is suddenly getting an opportunity to practice what he’s been teaching. It’s probably the best part of the job for Delaware’s interim athletic director, who took over at the start of the new year. For someone who is many things, but an educator primarily, overseeing an athletic department and 21 varsity sports is the latest in a lifetime of enlightening experiences. “I kind of prided myself my entire career as an academician on saying ‘I like putting theory into practice,’ ” Robinson said from his Carpenter Center office Thursday morning. “So here it is, an opportunity to do that. If it ended tomorrow, what a wealth of knowledge and experience I’ve gained — bring it back to the classroom. It’s great when you talk about it in theory to bring out an example. Gosh, just in three weeks, it’s been an incredible learning experience for me.” Robinson, 51, is director of the sport management program in UD’s Lerner College of Business and Economics. There, students learn how to handle jobs in athletic administration. -Kevin Tresolini, The News Journal, Read More