Report: TCU expected to hire Army’s Mike Buddie for athletic director job

TCU is expected to hire Army athletic director Mike Buddie to take over the same role, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported. Buddie has held the AD role at Army since 2019 and was also the athletic director at Furman for four years before that.

Buddie attended Wake Forest in the early 1990s before being draft to the New York Yankees as a pitcher in the 1992 MLB Draft. He retired from baseball in 2002 and would return to Wake Forest to work in its athletic department.

He landed the job at Furman in 2015, which was his first as an athletic director. He helped negotiate a multi-year deal with Nike and also secured three $1 million endowments for the football program. Furman won 26 conference championships during his four years as AD.

Buddie then took over at Army in May of 2019. He helped grow the football program in that time, culminating with a 12-win season and AAC title in 2024.

Buddie would be the replacement for Jeremiah Donati, who left to take over as the athletic director at South Carolina. The Horned Frogs have enjoyed plenty of success themselves over the past few years, including making an appearance in the national championship game in the 2022 season.

They’ll look to carry that over into the next era and it appears they are closing in on the man who will lead them there. TCU is coming off of a 9-4 finish to this football season and claimed a win in the New Mexico Bowl against Louisiana.

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