Texas AD Chris Del Conte Hid Outside Cemetery While Waiting To Speak With Jim Schlossnagle About Longhorns Job

Just when you thought you'd heard it all when it comes to coaching searches in college athletics, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte took his hunt for Jim Schlossnagle to a new level. 

As we have seen over the past two days, the Texas Longhorns coaching search did not take very long, thanks to Jim Schlossnagle knowing that the job was coming open, as much as he wants to deny it. But the chaos surrounding the head coach leaving College Station for Austin has more to do with how it happened, along with the timing. 

You can certainly look back at the press conference following the Aggies lost to Tennessee as the tipping point in this whole transition, which saw Jim Schlossnagle lash out at a reporter for asking him about the opening at Texas. 

But if we're being honest, this deal was done long before the final out of the College World Series, as much as the Texas side wants to deny it. There was one aspect of this quick coaching search that caught the eye of fans across the country on Wednesday, as Schlossnagle was being introduced to Texas fans during an introductory press conference. 

AUSTIN, TEXAS - OCTOBER 28: Athletic director Chris Del Conte of the Texas Longhorns walks to the locker room after the game against the Brigham Young Cougars at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on October 28, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

While Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte wants everyone to believe that the first time both sides spoke about the job was when the baggies returned from Omaha, he did make a pretty funny admission of how he tried to hide out in College Station while Jim Schlossnagle was wrapping things up on Tuesday. 

Del Conte noted that he drove from Austin to College Station to finally meet face-to-face with Schlossnagle, but did not want to be seen out in public around the Texas A&M campus. So, the Texas AD decided to park outside Snook Cemetery, which was near the house of the now former Aggies coach. 

He then posted the photo on social media Wednesday afternoon. 

I've seen a lot of things during these coaching searches, from hiding out at airports to meeting in the most random parts of the country for a job interview, but hiding out a cemetery is actually pretty genius. 

Nobody is paying attention to a vehicle sitting just outside the gates, unless you are a police officer that might be a little curious as to what Del Conte was doing. But in the grand scheme of this entire search that publicly lasted just around two hours, I'd have to imagine those folks in the cemetery were rolling over in their graves knowing what the Texas athletic director was doing in town.