Sources: TCU to hire Army’s Buddie as new advertisement

• Pete Thamel, Senior Citizen College Sports InsiderDec 31, 2024, 08:46 PM ET

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  College Football Senior Citizen Writer for ESPN. Expert for College Gameday.TCU has discovered

its brand-new athletic director, as the school is anticipated to hire Army AD Mike Buddie in the approaching days, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.The school has actually begun to inform essential stakeholders of the hire, sources told ESPN.Buddie, who has been at Army since

2019, heads to TCU in the wake of among the Black Knights ‘most effective football seasons in contemporary history. Army, with 12 wins in football for the first time in school history, won the American Athletic Conference in its very first year in the league.Buddie, 54, led Army from independence in football into the

AAC during his tenure, bringing a league association while still permitting the Black Knights to complete for the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy.At TCU, he’ll replace Jeremiah Donati, who left for the athletic director job at South

Carolina in early December. Buddie takes over an athletic department where the football program is coming off a 9-4 season and played for the national title after the 2022 season.In the reconfigured Big 12, TCU looms as one of the league’s leading tasks. The athletic department has actually developed coaches in Sonny Dykes in football and Jamie Dixon in guys’s basketball.Buddie brings extensive experience as a fundraiser, as he managed several essential fundraising efforts at West Point.Prior to his time at Army, Buddie worked as the athletic director at Furman. Before that, he operated in the athletic department at his alma mater, Wake Forest, for nearly a decade.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 Makers.