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USA Today
15-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Texas Longhorns win 4th Directors Cup in 5 years for top overall athletic department USA
Texas Longhorns win 4th Directors Cup in 5 years for top overall athletic department USA Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte turned the University of Texas athletic department into the envy of every school in the country. For the fourth time in five years, the Texas Longhorns athletic department has won the 2024-25 NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup for being the best athletic department in the nation. UT edged out USC and Stanford to claim the trophy. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics awards the prize each season based on results from all of a school's sports teams, men's and women's. The final results came down to a race in the NCAA Track and Field Championships. UT clinched the Cup after the Texas A&M Aggies tied USC with a total score of 41 at the men's outdoor track and field championships Saturday night. Had the Trojans won, they would have had enough to pass Texas instead of barely finishing in second. Texas finishes with 1255.25 total points, USC ends up with 1253.75 and Stanford finishes with 1251. Texas won a national title in both Men's Swimming and Diving and Softball this season. Texas football finished third, as did women's basketball, rowing, women's swimming and diving and men's tennis. Since Del Conte took over the Longhorns athletic department in 2017, Texas has won 15 national titles. Now, with his fourth Directors' Cup, the Longhorns have arguably the best AD in all of college sports.
Associated Press
12-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe retiring at end of this sports season after 20 years
PROVO, Utah (AP) — BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe is retiring at the end of the 2024-25 sports season after more than 20 years at the school. Holmoe helped BYU join the Big 12 Conference in 2023 following a decade as an FBS independent. He also made several key hires that helped elevate the Cougars in multiple sports, bringing aboard Bronco Mendenhall and then Kalani Sitake in football, along with Dave Rose, Mark Pope, and Kevin Young in men's basketball. Holmoe was hired as the school's athletic director in March 2005, after joining BYU in 2002 as an associate athletic director for development. During Holmoe's tenure, BYU has captured four NCAA championships and 133 conference regular-season and postseason championships across 21 sports. More than 350 student-athletes have earned All-America recognition during that time. Since 2005, BYU has had an average annual ranking of 36th in the NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup that ranks all athletic programs in NCAA Division I. Holmoe was named the NACDA Athletic Director of the year in the 2020-21 season and earned the National Football Foundation's John L. Toner Award in 2023. Before becoming an athletic director, Holmoe coached California in football from 1997-2001 and had a career record of 16-39 (.291). He also had stints as an assistant coach at California, Stanford, BYU, and the San Francisco 49ers. Holmoe played football for BYU under LaVell Edwards from 1978-1982. He earned first-team All-WAC honors as a senior in 1982. He was selected by the 49ers in the fourth round of the 1983 draft and spent all seven of his NFL seasons in San Francisco. Holmoe played on three Super Bowl-winning teams with the 49ers in 1984, 1988, and 1989 before retiring from pro football. ___
