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Report: Texas AD Chris Del Conte receives six-year contract extension

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Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte is set to receive a six-year contract extension from the school, according to Kirk Bohls of the Houston Chronicle. It’s pending Board of Regent approval.

“Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte will receive a six-year contract extension that will pay him $2.9 million for 2026 and eventually pay him $4.25 million in 2036, pending Board of Regent approval this week,” Bohls wrote on Twitter/X. Bohls did not report exactly when the approval would come from the BOR.

Del Conte’s been the AD at Texas since 2017. Prior to that, he was the athletic director at Rice (2006-09) and TCU (2009-17).

Before becoming an athletic director, Del Conte was an assistant AD at Cal Poly (1994-98), Washington State (1998-99) and Arizona (2000-06). With a well established administration career, Del Conte’s been a solid leader for the Longhorns.

Texas may be a newcomer to the SEC, but Del Conte hasn’t been afraid to push issues. That included a push to make the SEC go to a nine-game conference schedule, due to the Red River Rivalry with Oklahoma.

“I’ve always been a proponent of 9 league games because of our Red River game vs. Oklahoma in Dallas,” Del Conte said at via On3’s Brett McMurphy. The Red River Shootout will have Texas as the designated home team in 2025. This means only three SEC games will take place in Austin, one of which is on Black Friday against Texas A&M.

 And with Texas heading on the road for its massive nonconference showdown against Ohio State, the home slate is a little light in Austin. Del Conte knows moving to nine games would help him out in a massive way. A neutral site matchup would not imbalance the schedule, giving Texas four SEC home games and another four on the road. Of course, Oklahoma deals with the same but this is nothing new for Florida and Georgia, who routinely play in Jacksonville.

Looking at the future non-conference slate, Texas has two more games against Ohio State scheduled, beginning with the Aug. 30 matchup. The game will be played on Saturday, not Sunday, as Del Conte has a church service to attend in the morning.