New AD may be inbound

[bmoney214]

Well hey, that’s pretty good right there it sounds like.

This could be a good hire for baseball. Since Buddie is a baseball guy, maybe this will help get some renovations done to Lupton. You can't be a former baseball player that won a World Series with the Yankees and be happy with the way Lupton currently is.

 

[bmoney214]

 

[Paint It Purple]

Recent radio interview with ADMB.

Army/Navy 2024 - Army AD Mike Buddie - Paul Allen | iHeart

Nordo & John Kriesel get to sit down with Army's Athletics Director Mike Buddie!<p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

www.iheart.com

TCU powers listened to this interview and then said, "This is our guy. Hire him now!"

This interview should calm down the "Not a splash hire we wanted," folks.

 

[froginmn]

TCU powers listened to this interview and then said, "This is our guy. Hire him now!"

This interview should calm down the "Not a splash hire we wanted," folks.

He retained a successful and popular football coach and oversaw a program that moved into the AAC and went 12-2 in its first year in conference, winning it (btw the losses were to Notre Dame and Navy).

Without the benefit of NIL and competing against schools that have it.

I understand that this perspective isn't appropriately negative for some who don't bother researching who the guy is, but the football team didn't commit a single penalty in the championship game, he raised funds for a stadium remodel in an environment where it's difficult to raise substantial funds and where rules restrict how you raise funds, etc. Guy was a major league pitcher and has been an AD at two schools for a total of ten years.

I am unable to predict what he'll do but I like this hire.

 

[Mean Purple]

Connection to Elliott Hill

Buddie is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He won a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1998 and also pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers.

At least he has perspective on what it takes

We didn’t hire him to take the mound or coach baseball.

 

[Mean Purple]

TCU powers listened to this interview and then said, "This is our guy. Hire him now!"

This interview should calm down the "Not a splash hire we wanted," folks.

Dude, it’s an interview for press.

This is an NIL/Portal world. He has not really dealt with that. Other than keeping a good coach, he does not have the experience at this level of insanity.

He did raise some money up their, but Army alumni are like union workers, they hand it over without a thought.

 

[Mean Purple]

This is flat bs….i named the GM when you asked. Quit making things up.

Who is the GM? We actually have one? Because I did not see it in the staff listing. Guess I could have missed it.

 

[Mean Purple]

Based on his resume, this is not the direction I would go in hiring an athletic director in this era of college athletics. With that being said, he deserves a chance if this is who we are hiring.

I would feel better if the athletic director was someone that came from and spent time at a serious football school or maybe a bowl director. A good bowl director would have connections to the media (especially ESPN) and know how to develop corporate ties to athletics.

It’s not a big hire. It’s a gamble at best. People can try to sugarcoat it or ignore the reality, but that won’t change what it is.

 

[Wexahu]

It’s not a big hire. It’s a gamble at best. People can try to sugarcoat it or ignore the reality, but that won’t change what it is.

Every hire is a gamble.

 

[Mean Purple]

Every hire is a gamble.

Its a far less gamble when you hire someone has hit home runs in the big areas that impact the organization’s success.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

Its a far less gamble when you hire someone has hit home runs

I mean he did play for the Yankees

 

[Paint It Purple]

We didn’t hire him to take the mound or coach baseball.

Nevertheless, I think the right former collegiate/pro player is a good thing in an Athletics Director. Ex: Oliver Luck

 

[LSU Game Attendee]

Army alumni are like union workers, they hand it over without a thought.

Nope.

 

[Hemingway]

Give the man a chance.

I find the statement and it’s source to peculiar

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

Its a far less gamble when you hire someone has hit home runs in the big areas that impact the organization’s success.

Who should we have hired?

 

[froginmn]

Dude, it’s an interview for press.

This is an NIL/Portal world. He has not really dealt with that. Other than keeping a good coach, he does not have the experience at this level of insanity.

He did raise some money up their, but Army alumni are like union workers, they hand it over without a thought.

Do you think there are more big money alumni at TCU or West Point? Where is fundraising easier?

Do you think it's easier or more difficult to compete at TCU, where you have a broad range of recruits and access to NIL money, or at Army, where the talent pool is extremely restricted and NIL not allowed?

You can complain about the guy all you want but I'm assuming that you're complaining not based on any knowledge of who he is and what he's accomplished.

He worked in athletics at Wake Forest, then was AD at Furman, then AD at Army.

Keeping a good coach is exactly what a good AD does. Dealing with the portal is not an AD function.

Give the guy a chance, then you can [ hundin] about him later. This board couldn't stop bitching and moaning about our last AD; now you start with the new guy before he lands in FW.

 

[froginmn]

Who should we have hired?

The complainers are looking for someone with extensive NIL experience.

You know, like as much as 3 1/2 years, since it began in July of 2021.

 

[Horned Frog Country]

Who should we have hired?

Brent Ringler has a background that I like.

Brant Ringler

Brant Ringler was named the executive director of the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, an ESPN Events owned and operated game, in June 2009, and added the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl to his responsibilities in 2013. Ringler originally joined the staff in November 2004 as manager of sales and...

espnpressroom.com

 

[TopFrog]

I think that he has not navigated the NIL world is a legitimate question. He will have to prove himself in that area. I am sure he has all the other tools and skills.

 

[Bruce Berry]

As a Yankee fan totally fine with this.

Sonny has a new boss who didn't hire him. I wouldn't start 3-3 if I was him.