Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
The University of Texas System Board of Regents will be asked this week to approve a six-year contract extension for Del Conte, online records show. The extension would keep Del Conte, 57, with the Texas athletic department through 2036.
Typically, contracts brought before the Board of Regents are rubber-stamped. As with other contracts prepared for the regents, Conte's contract is nearly assured to be approved at the meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
Del Conte's current contract runs through the end of the 2030 fiscal year. He's set to make $3.15 million during the contract's final year, but this proposed extension would give him a slight raise for each of the years remaining on that deal. He would start to make $3.5 million during the 2031 fiscal year and that annual salary would rise to $4.25 million by the end of the contract.
The performance incentives for the six years that Texas is adding to Del Conte's contract range from $475,000 during the 2031 fiscal year to $600,000 during the 2036 fiscal year.
Del Conte has been Texas's athletic director since December 2017. His contract was last extended in 2023. Under his watch, Texas has won the Directors' Cup, awarded to the top overall athletic department in the country, in four of the past five years. The Longhorns successfully moved from the Big 12 to the SEC last year, and the athletic department has so far been able to navigate the murky waters of NIL and revenue sharing.
Three of the 12 coaches hired during Del Conte's tenure have won national championships. In total, Texas has won 16 national titles since Del Conte was hired.
A former UC-Santa Barbara track-and-field athlete, Del Conte has also been the AD at Rice (2006-09) and TCU (2009-17) after working at Cal State Poly, Washington State and Arizona.
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