Texas hires new AD

[Old Tiger]

TCU’s Chris Del Conte per sources

[bigcountry]

TCU’s Chris Del Conte per sources

Super hire. Wow. Texas getting serious now. He has helped put TCU athletics on the map. Look out now & Hook’Em Dang Horns!

[Saggy Aggie]

Who?

[bigcountry]

Just a fantastic hire. As an AD, his credentials are elite. He is widely known in college athletic circles (those that know), as one of the best AD’s in the nation. A young, tireless worker that clearly shows that UT alumni, along with UT administration are not messing around. It’s time to get serious about the UT athletic programs & facilities, and there is no better to do that than Del Conte. Incredibly smart & bold hire by The University of Texas. Just a tremendous hire. Sit and watch.

From Sports Illustrated:
Texas has reeled in one of the BEST ADs in college sports. In a wide-ranging survey of ADs and national media by SI this year, Del Conte received the second-most points amongst his peers, trailing only OU’s Joe Castiglione. Among Del Conte’s biggest accomplishments at TCU were getting the Horned Frogs into the Big 12 Conference and over $300 million in construction projects that were all donor funded.

From various outlets: Del Conte was the recipient of a 2015 NACDA Under Armour AD of the Year Award and the 2010 Bobby Dodd Division I-A Athletic Director's Award. In February 2015, he was named to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Committee. On Del Conte’s watch, five TCU head coaches have been named National Coach of the Year in their respective sports.

Del Conte has served as director of intercollegiate athletics at Texas Christian University since 2009 and is NATIONALLY recognized for developing winning programs, upgrading facilities, improving the fan experience and helping student-athletes excel on and off the field.

Del Conte took over at TCU in 2009 and has raised that athletic program to heights the Horned Frogs have never reached before. The football team won a Rose Bowl over Wisconsin and lost to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship earlier this month, and the baseball team has reached the College World Series the last three consecutive seasons.

Under his leadership, Del Conte oversaw the school’s entrance into the Big 12 in 2012. Under his watch TCU also underwent several athletic upgrades, most notably the construction of the new Amon G. Carter Stadium and football offices at a cost of nearly $170 million and a $72 million renovation of TCU’s basketball facility. Del Conte is also proud to say that TCU athletics carries NO DEBT despite those major projects (aggy could learn from this).

One sports writer wrote:

- Wicked smart.

- Master relationship builder. Has a wildly confident charm about him that attracts winners. Very unusual in that typically alpha males repel each other but I’ve seen Chris melt even the most alpha. He just has an unusual way of having a commanding presence without needing to bow-up to get attention.

- He has had a knack for pulling off some of the most impossible deals. “How’d he do that?” or “How did he get that amount of $?” is a pretty common observation.

- He has always built a strong positive relationship with the coaches and their assistants. Very similar to Mack Brown’s ability to makes anyone he talked to feel special, Chris very much takes the time to connect on a personal level.

- He’s brashly unafraid, doesn’t settle, is not impulsive, calls his shot, and goes for the jugular

- This man can raise money from wilted shrubbery.

- IMG identified him as one of the industry’s rising stars over ten years ago. They saw something different as far back as his Arizona days.

- He can play most any room. He can work a big gala crowd, or sit in a meeting with his boots up on the desk and his arms crossed behind his head.

- At both Rice and TCU, he became a trusted advisor to the president beyond athletics.

-TCU and the deep pockets of the donors know what they got. They’re willing to put the resources into preserving it. The flip side of that is that Chris is an achiever. His personal game plan didn’t have a planned plateau at a school like TCU. Texas is the type of school that fits his self-image.

-His personality oozes TEXAS

- He’s young. He’s got a really long runway ahead.

- Very much embraces what it takes to keep a brand fresh.

Again, “off the charts” hire! HOOK’EM DANG HORNS!!!!!

[bigcountry]

I can assure you what I know about Del Conte, he will not rest until The University of Texas athletic program is back at an elite level where it has been, and should be, especially with football. Those that don’t know him are either not well read, or are in a brainwashed aggy shell. Those that don’t know him? Sit back, you will down the road. He is a tireless worker, and understands the dynamics of running a college athletic program. He is on top 2 lists for a reason. I’m just proud we got him so rapidly. Wow, what a hire. Hook’Em.

[Saggy Aggie]

Yeah, or the people who don't know him just dont give a rats ass about college football athletic directors.... LOL

[Old Tiger]

Yeah, or the people who don't know him just dont give a rats ass about college football athletic directors.... LOL
College ADs are probably the most important thing in college athletics.

[bigcountry]

College ADs are probably the most important thing in college athletics.

There ya go. A smart poster. They are vital for bigger, prominent schools especially. Lots of money to manage, projects, politics, fundraising...you name it. Vital to the viability of an athletic program. They can make you or break you. Glad we sealed this hire. The payoff is coming.

[Old Tiger]

There ya go. A smart poster. They are vital for bigger, prominent schools especially. Lots of money to manage, projects, politics, fundraising...you name it. Vital to the viability of an athletic program. They can make you or break you. Glad we sealed this hire. The payoff is coming.

I like that he’s VP/AD and Chris Plonsky will report to him. This is a big power play by the university to squeeze out the women’s AD which Texas is the only school to still have both.

[Saggy Aggie]

College ADs are probably the most important thing in college athletics.

You guys clearly aren’t understanding so I’ll simplify.....

I’m not saying ADs aren’t important to college athletics, I’m saying some of us have a lot more important stuff to worry about than who’s who among college athletics....


It really doesn’t make much sense to get that invested in college athletics when you didn’t even attend the school. I couldnt imagine wasting my time worrying about TCU’s athletic director if I were just a t shirt longhorn fan. But some people haven’t got anything better to do I suppose

[Old Tiger]

You guys clearly aren’t understanding so I’ll simplify.....

I’m not saying ADs aren’t important to college athletics, I’m saying some of us have a lot more important stuff to worry about than who’s who among college athletics....


It really doesn’t make much sense to get that invested in college athletics when you didn’t even attend the school. I couldnt imagine wasting my time worrying about TCU’s athletic director if I were just a t shirt longhorn fan. But some people haven’t got anything better to do I suppose

So with that theory why are you even posting on this thread at all then?

[Saggy Aggie]

because bigcountry and I like to give each other crap

Same reason you can find him on every TAMU thread talking trash

[Saggy Aggie]

Just a fantastic hire. As an AD, his credentials are elite. He is widely known in college athletic circles (those that know), as one of the best AD’s in the nation. A young, tireless worker that clearly shows that UT alumni, along with UT administration are not messing around. It’s time to get serious about the UT athletic programs & facilities, and there is no better to do that than Del Conte. Incredibly smart & bold hire by The University of Texas. Just a tremendous hire. Sit and watch.

From Sports Illustrated:
Texas has reeled in one of the BEST ADs in college sports. In a wide-ranging survey of ADs and national media by SI this year, Del Conte received the second-most points amongst his peers, trailing only OU’s Joe Castiglione. Among Del Conte’s biggest accomplishments at TCU were getting the Horned Frogs into the Big 12 Conference and over $300 million in construction projects that were all donor funded.

From various outlets: Del Conte was the recipient of a 2015 NACDA Under Armour AD of the Year Award and the 2010 Bobby Dodd Division I-A Athletic Director's Award. In February 2015, he was named to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Committee. On Del Conte’s watch, five TCU head coaches have been named National Coach of the Year in their respective sports.

Del Conte has served as director of intercollegiate athletics at Texas Christian University since 2009 and is NATIONALLY recognized for developing winning programs, upgrading facilities, improving the fan experience and helping student-athletes excel on and off the field.

Del Conte took over at TCU in 2009 and has raised that athletic program to heights the Horned Frogs have never reached before. The football team won a Rose Bowl over Wisconsin and lost to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship earlier this month, and the baseball team has reached the College World Series the last three consecutive seasons.

Under his leadership, Del Conte oversaw the school’s entrance into the Big 12 in 2012. Under his watch TCU also underwent several athletic upgrades, most notably the construction of the new Amon G. Carter Stadium and football offices at a cost of nearly $170 million and a $72 million renovation of TCU’s basketball facility. Del Conte is also proud to say that TCU athletics carries NO DEBT despite those major projects (aggy could learn from this).

One sports writer wrote:

- Wicked smart.

- Master relationship builder. Has a wildly confident charm about him that attracts winners. Very unusual in that typically alpha males repel each other but I’ve seen Chris melt even the most alpha. He just has an unusual way of having a commanding presence without needing to bow-up to get attention.

- He has had a knack for pulling off some of the most impossible deals. “How’d he do that?” or “How did he get that amount of $?” is a pretty common observation.

- He has always built a strong positive relationship with the coaches and their assistants. Very similar to Mack Brown’s ability to makes anyone he talked to feel special, Chris very much takes the time to connect on a personal level.

- He’s brashly unafraid, doesn’t settle, is not impulsive, calls his shot, and goes for the jugular

- This man can raise money from wilted shrubbery.

- IMG identified him as one of the industry’s rising stars over ten years ago. They saw something different as far back as his Arizona days.

- He can play most any room. He can work a big gala crowd, or sit in a meeting with his boots up on the desk and his arms crossed behind his head.

- At both Rice and TCU, he became a trusted advisor to the president beyond athletics.

-TCU and the deep pockets of the donors know what they got. They’re willing to put the resources into preserving it. The flip side of that is that Chris is an achiever. His personal game plan didn’t have a planned plateau at a school like TCU. Texas is the type of school that fits his self-image.

-His personality oozes TEXAS

- He’s young. He’s got a really long runway ahead.

- Very much embraces what it takes to keep a brand fresh.

Again, “off the charts” hire! HOOK’EM DANG HORNS!!!!!

Can you imagine getting this excited about another guy?

[bigcountry]

National media all saying this Texas AD hire was a great one. Knocked it out of the park! Talk is talk... now just watch this AD go to work & get results in Austin. Very exciting times if you are a Horn fan. Very exciting. And..... HOOK’EM DANG HORNS!

[Scoop27]

Great selection to turn the whole program around and now coaches in place and time to win

[Saggy Aggie]

Great selection to turn the whole program around and now coaches in place and time to win

Scoop, I thought you said Herman needs to go? Lol

[Macarthur]

Just a fantastic hire. As an AD, his credentials are elite. He is widely known in college athletic circles (those that know), as one of the best AD’s in the nation. A young, tireless worker that clearly shows that UT alumni, along with UT administration are not messing around. It’s time to get serious about the UT athletic programs & facilities, and there is no better to do that than Del Conte. Incredibly smart & bold hire by The University of Texas. Just a tremendous hire. Sit and watch.

From Sports Illustrated:
Texas has reeled in one of the BEST ADs in college sports. In a wide-ranging survey of ADs and national media by SI this year, Del Conte received the second-most points amongst his peers, trailing only OU’s Joe Castiglione. Among Del Conte’s biggest accomplishments at TCU were getting the Horned Frogs into the Big 12 Conference and over $300 million in construction projects that were all donor funded.

From various outlets: Del Conte was the recipient of a 2015 NACDA Under Armour AD of the Year Award and the 2010 Bobby Dodd Division I-A Athletic Director's Award. In February 2015, he was named to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Committee. On Del Conte’s watch, five TCU head coaches have been named National Coach of the Year in their respective sports.

Del Conte has served as director of intercollegiate athletics at Texas Christian University since 2009 and is NATIONALLY recognized for developing winning programs, upgrading facilities, improving the fan experience and helping student-athletes excel on and off the field.

Del Conte took over at TCU in 2009 and has raised that athletic program to heights the Horned Frogs have never reached before. The football team won a Rose Bowl over Wisconsin and lost to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship earlier this month, and the baseball team has reached the College World Series the last three consecutive seasons.

Under his leadership, Del Conte oversaw the school’s entrance into the Big 12 in 2012. Under his watch TCU also underwent several athletic upgrades, most notably the construction of the new Amon G. Carter Stadium and football offices at a cost of nearly $170 million and a $72 million renovation of TCU’s basketball facility. Del Conte is also proud to say that TCU athletics carries NO DEBT despite those major projects (aggy could learn from this).

One sports writer wrote:

- Wicked smart.

- Master relationship builder. Has a wildly confident charm about him that attracts winners. Very unusual in that typically alpha males repel each other but I’ve seen Chris melt even the most alpha. He just has an unusual way of having a commanding presence without needing to bow-up to get attention.

- He has had a knack for pulling off some of the most impossible deals. “How’d he do that?” or “How did he get that amount of $?” is a pretty common observation.

- He has always built a strong positive relationship with the coaches and their assistants. Very similar to Mack Brown’s ability to makes anyone he talked to feel special, Chris very much takes the time to connect on a personal level.

- He’s brashly unafraid, doesn’t settle, is not impulsive, calls his shot, and goes for the jugular

- This man can raise money from wilted shrubbery.

- IMG identified him as one of the industry’s rising stars over ten years ago. They saw something different as far back as his Arizona days.

- He can play most any room. He can work a big gala crowd, or sit in a meeting with his boots up on the desk and his arms crossed behind his head.

- At both Rice and TCU, he became a trusted advisor to the president beyond athletics.

-TCU and the deep pockets of the donors know what they got. They’re willing to put the resources into preserving it. The flip side of that is that Chris is an achiever. His personal game plan didn’t have a planned plateau at a school like TCU. Texas is the type of school that fits his self-image.

-His personality oozes TEXAS

- He’s young. He’s got a really long runway ahead.

- Very much embraces what it takes to keep a brand fresh.

Again, “off the charts” hire! HOOK’EM DANG HORNS!!!!!

Good grief, you are obnoxious.a

Beyond that, I am a TCU fan so I'm pretty famliliar with CDC. He's very good. He did great things at TCU.

However, let me add a bit of temperment here:
- I don't know how much he had with TCU getting into the Big 12. He certainly played a part, but I tend to think the football team's success over the years had much more to do with it.
- He did not hire Patterson or Schlossnagel. Those two guys were on campus when CDC got here and I don't think he gets much credit for Dixon as he was coming back to his alma mater.
- He did a great job of fund raising.
- Will be very interesting to see how he manages the sheer number of ego's involved with UT. TCU has very rich alums, but not nearly as many of them to manage as UT. UT has a tendency to eat their own.

I wish CDC luck as he was good for TCU, but he's now on the other side. TCU still gonna kick UT's ass next year. ;)

[bigcountry]

Good grief, you are obnoxious.a

Beyond that, I am a TCU fan so I'm pretty famliliar with CDC. He's very good. He did great things at TCU.

However, let me add a bit of temperment here:
- I don't know how much he had with TCU getting into the Big 12. He certainly played a part, but I tend to think the football team's success over the years had much more to do with it.
- He did not hire Patterson or Schlossnagel. Those two guys were on campus when CDC got here and I don't think he gets much credit for Dixon as he was coming back to his alma mater.
- He did a great job of fund raising.
- Will be very interesting to see how he manages the sheer number of ego's involved with UT. TCU has very rich alums, but not nearly as many of them to manage as UT. UT has a tendency to eat their own.

I wish CDC luck as he was good for TCU, but he's now on the other side. TCU still gonna kick UT's ass next year. ;)

Just because someone doesn’t see things the way you do, or has different alliances we are now obnoxious. Laughable. What a sensitive bunch of turds over here on this board. I’m about done with this board. Just filled with A-holes like yourself. If folks are not speaking your same crap, we are obnoxious? Give me a dang break. 2018 resolution just might be to vacate this crap for good. Not worth it.

[Macarthur]

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[Saggy Aggie]

Just because someone doesn’t see things the way you do, or has different alliances we are now obnoxious. Laughable. What a sensitive bunch of turds over here on this board. I’m about done with this board. Just filled with A-holes like yourself. If folks are not speaking your same crap, we are obnoxious? Give me a dang break. 2018 resolution just might be to vacate this crap for good. Not worth it.

Has nothing to do with people disagreeing. It’s literally just you as a person