TCU Starts Search For New Athletics Director
4/19/2005 12:00:00 AM | General
April 19, 2005
TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr. announced today that TCU has begun its national search for a new athletic director and will be assisted in the search by Baker-Parker, a highly regarded firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Baker-Parker is a global search firm with engagements in most industrial, service and not-for-profit sectors, but its practice in higher education and collegiate athletic search is one of the most highly regarded in the country. Baker-Parker has recently completed successful athletic director searches with the University of Georgia, Ohio State University, University of Washington, University of Nevada-Reno and Emory University, and is completing one now at Arizona State University. The firm recruited current president Myles Brand for the NCAA, and also has represented them in other searches.
"We are looking forward to working with Baker-Parker because they have the reputation as one of the best in the business," said TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr., who will chair the search process. "We will move quickly and hope to have the position filled by the time Eric Hyman leaves."
"Eric is terrific," said Boschini. "Not only has he been named athletic director of the year, but has accomplished the hard work of planning, building facilities, raising money, hiring coaches, and making TCU known at the national leadership levels of intercollegiate athletics. We are committed to continuing what he has helped established here, and know that his foundation will help us attract a top talent to the position. This is going home for Eric and Pauline, and we are grateful for the time they spent as Horned Frogs."
The search committee is comprised of TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr., who will function as chair of the committee, Provost R. Nowell Donovan, and Professor and Athletics Representative to the NCAA Rhonda Hatcher. Search committee members from the TCU Board of Trustees include Chairman of the Board John V. Roach, Chair-elect J. Luther King, Vice-chair Clarence Scharbauer, Chair of Athletics Committee G. Malcolm Louden, and trustees Brenda Cline and Ron Parker. Student athletes will be involved in the process as well.
The search will be truly national. It will be very inclusive, and not exclusive. There are no apparent internal candidates. In order to maintain the integrity of the search, and out of respect for the candidates, committee members will not be making public statements. The committee chairman will be its spokesman, but there will be no speculation or discussion about potential candidates during the search process.
