Mike Buddie new AD

[CryptoMiner]

Sources: TCU to hire Army's Buddie as new AD

TCU is expected to hire Army AD Mike Buddie as its new athletic director, sources told ESPN. Buddie has been at Army since 2019.

www.espn.com

 

[Double D]

 

[FroggleRock]

 

[TooColdU]

 

[Sangria Wine]

Biggest risk is him coming from a school with literally…intentionally…no NIL payments. And no NIL experience prior since it didn’t exist at his prior stops. He is a very good communicator and he is a high morality, solid character guy without question.

 

[Big Frog II]

AD/pitching coach

 

[cajuncanukfrog]

Maybe bring someone as GM for athletics similar to other schools ( Stanford, etc.)

 

[JetFlyingFrog]

Biggest risk is him coming from a school with literally…intentionally…no NIL payments. And no NIL experience prior since it didn’t exist at his prior stops. He is a very good communicator and he is a high morality, solid character guy without question.

"High morality and solid character" would be a good first step and massive improvement over Donati's clan.

 

[FroggleRock]

Yeah idk if hiring an AD with literally no experience with NIL or fundraising was the right move. Pretty much the opposite of what we needed.

 

[Double D]

Exactly

Yeah idk if hiring an AD with literally no experience with NIL or fundraising was the right move. Pretty much the opposite of what we needed.

 

[froginaustin]

Exactly

Maybe NIL/fundraising will be in another wheelhouse.

 

[Dr. Coach Haus]

Yeah idk if hiring an AD with literally no experience with NIL or fundraising was the right move. Pretty much the opposite of what we needed.

Seems like a safe hire. He will hire someone that will be in charge of NIL.
Trust the process
Remember, no one was good at NIL five years ago.

 

[Traveling Frog]

very odd hire from a Service academy. Seems like a complete opposite program. Anyone know how he was even considered?

 

[Paint It Purple]

Yeah idk if hiring an AD with literally no experience with NIL or fundraising was the right move. Pretty much the opposite of what we needed.

We all hate NIL. We all know it's the ruination of college athletics. So, we all want an NIL expert AD. Figures.

 

[Paint It Purple]

Maybe now, we can schedule Army.

 

[froginmn]

Yeah idk if hiring an AD with literally no experience with NIL or fundraising was the right move. Pretty much the opposite of what we needed.

So you think he has no experience with fundraising?

LOL

Facilities: Renovation of Army’s Michie Stadium marches forward. Biggest surprise? That it can happen at all

According to a file found in the Army athletics office, renovating the east side of Michie Stadium was first considered in 2008. Sixteen years after the idea was first put on paper, it’s happening, with groundbreaking expected at the West Point football and lacrosse stadium this spring.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

When Buddie arrived at West Point in 2019 after four years as the AD at Furman, he encountered a different world of fundraising and project funding to the one that exists around most NCAA athletic departments. The Army West Point Athletic Association, the nonprofit operating Army athletics and giving it some separation from the U.S. government, was only 2 years old. Some of West Point’s athletics budget comes from government funding, but 100% of the money for a facility project had to be raised by donors and the athletic department before it could commence. Not one penny of government money would go to the Michie Stadium project.

“Most places I’ve been, there is some formula that if you have 25% in hand and 80% pledged, you can go ahead and start,” Buddie said.

 

[Mean Purple]

very odd hire from a Service academy. Seems like a complete opposite program. Anyone know how he was even considered?

Because our school’s leadership refuses to go big.

 

[Limey Frog]

Can he call in an artillery strike on College Park? If so, I'm in.

 

[bc puckett]

Can he call in an artillery strike on College Park? If so, I'm in.

What did Maryland ever do to TCU?

 

[Limey Frog]

What did Maryland ever do to TCU?

Lolz. University Park, even... It's getting late, apparently. I can't even plead that I'm drunk.