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TCU Ushers In New (and Complicated) Athletics Era With Mike Buddie
by John Henry
Suffice to say, Mother Nature played her part to welcome new TCU Athletic Director Mike Buddie and his family from the northern climes to Fort Worth.
“I appreciate this warm welcome,” Buddie said Monday midmorning at a press conference in the Legends Club, atop the east side of Amon G. Carter Stadium, the central air and heating apparatus getting in a full workout. “I guess warm may not be the right word for it. You can imagine our comfort level when we woke up this morning to 23 degrees. I don't know who pulled that string just to make us feel right at home. It is not our doing. Please don't blame that on us. You can blame us for a lot of other things in the near future, but not the weather.
“We are thrilled to be here.”
And with that formal introduction, the Mike Buddie era of TCU athletics had begun. Buddie is the ninth athletic director in university history, succeeding Jeremiah Donati, who left for the same job at University of South Carolina.
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