The director of the Oklahoma athletic who will retire from his full -time role during the Castiglion year upcoming school year, will end the longest run run run for a current advertisement in major college sports, sources told ESPN.
According to sources, Castigliaone will be in the form of emeritus, castiglyon athletic director.
Castigliaone is entering their 28th year in Oklahoma, a place in which 26 national titles, 117 league titles and Suuners’ move from Big 12 to SEC. The announcement time before this season, sources said, “Oklahoma officials will give adequate runways to rent a replacement during the upcoming school year.” The time of this step will allow OU to create a fare in the coming months and infection with Castiglione in the premises.
The 67 -year -old Castilon, about a month ago, began talks about retirement with school officials from per sources, and they landed together on the plan.
This job will allow CastiGliaone to continue working on special projects at the university, as it intends to live locally.
In nearly three decades in Oklahoma, he earned a reputation as one of the most respected leaders of the industry. He won the athletic director of the year by the Sports Business Journal in 2009 and shared the award in 2018. He also won the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Award for the top athletic director of the nation in 2000 and 2018.
A remarkable statistical probably fulfills its impact on the college athletics industry: in Oklahoma and Missouri, in his time, 32 employees of Castilon have become athletic directors or commissioners.
Before arriving at Norman in July 1998, Castiglion spent five seasons as athletic directors in Missouri. He launched Bob Stops as a football coach before the 1999 season and launched a run run of dominance, consisting of the 2000 national title and 10 Big 12 titles under Stoops, which became coach for all time of Oklahoma. That fare started the run of 26 consecutive bowl games for OU.
During the tenure of Castilon, Oklahoma arrived in the final four in men’s basketball under Calvin Sampson in 2002 and Lone Krugar in 2016. The women’s team reached three last fours. The school’s softball program has emerged as the country’s best during the time of Castiglion, winning eight national titles under coach Patty Gaso since 2000.
Castiglione served in innumerable committees for decades including the college football playoff committee, men’s basketball selection committee and baseball selection committee. According to his Oklahoma Bio, he is the only athletic director to serve in those three committees. At that time, he earned a role as one of the most powerful and respected voices of the industry.
Castiglione’s decision comes at a time when Oklahoma’s football program is in a recession, as it ended with losing records in two of the last three sessions under the fourth year coach Brent Venabals. The men’s basketball program drought a three -year NCAA tournament drought when the men’s basketball program arrived in the 2025 tournament in the 2025 tournament.
