Texas A&M’s athletic director will step down, the Houston Chronicle announced Tuesday afternoon.

The news comes one day after Hyman gave his head football coach a proverbial vote of confidence.

“We’ve got to be realistic here — if you look at what Kevin has accomplished in the four years he’s been here from a historical standpoint, it’s at the top,” Hyman said, according to the Dallas Morning News.

“This is a brutal league. It’s a 12-round boxing match every time you go out on a Saturday. It’s good news-bad news. Good news it’s the best league in the country. Bad news it’s the best league in the country.”

The Aggies hired Hyman from South Carolina on June 30, 2012. He played a critical role in the $450 million redevelopment of Texas A&M’s football stadium, Kyle Field.

Hyman also served as athletic director at TCU (1998-05) and with the Gamecocks (2005-12), among others.

It’s unclear how this news may affect coach Kevin Sumlin, who has come under scrutiny after back-to-back 8-5 seasons and three high-profile quarterbacks who transferred away from College Station. Sumlin has $20 million remaining on his contract, and Texas A&M would owe him every penny within 60 days if it fired him.

According to TexAgs.com:

… [Hyman] seemed to have a distant relationship with Aggie sports fans, who often complained he wasn’t approachable or visible. Fans on message boards and talk shows often wondered what he did to earn his seven-figure salary.

Yet, he primarily seemed to draw the ire of Aggies when he suggested in a 2014 interview with the San Antonio Express-News that his job was to “manage expectations that define reality.”

Fair or not, many Aggie fans interpreted that to mean that high demands should not be placed on football and men’s basketball, in particular.