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The other crazy thing is Smart, Strong, and Augie don't report to him. There's a Assistant AD level between them. Patterson even said if they have an issue, they take it up with the Assistant AD and it's up to him to elevate it to the AD.
Quote from: TheHamburglar on September 14, 2015, 10:24:28 AMThe other crazy thing is Smart, Strong, and Augie don't report to him. There's a Assistant AD level between them. Patterson even said if they have an issue, they take it up with the Assistant AD and it's up to him to elevate it to the AD.Almost every major athletic department operates like this, including K-State.
Quote from: TownieCat on September 14, 2015, 10:39:17 AMQuote from: TheHamburglar on September 14, 2015, 10:24:28 AMThe other crazy thing is Smart, Strong, and Augie don't report to him. There's a Assistant AD level between them. Patterson even said if they have an issue, they take it up with the Assistant AD and it's up to him to elevate it to the AD.Almost every major athletic department operates like this, including K-State.If a FB or MBB coach has a problem, does a good AD openly say "If they have a problem, they talk to a mid-level AD boss"? The idea that the AD at Texas openly says if the Texas FB coach has a problem his boss will elevate it to me is crazy to me.I fully believe that KSU does something like this to insulate Currie and allow Bill to keep his semi-God status. There's no way in hell Stoops or Harbaugh or Meyer or Saban are talking to a mid-level AD to elevate it if they have a problem. Every story that's come out about Patterson makes me believe that statement he made about how UT operates is true.
Austin American Statesman reporting Patterson expected to he fired, possibly as soon as this morning. The Pres has scheduled a meeting with Patterson for this morning.
Has Currie already applied?
So, this basically guarantees Strong is toast, right. I mean, why else do you lose your job in yr two at TX?
On Sept. 4, the night before the Notre Dame game, at a high-dollar Texas reception thrown by Fenves’ office for donors at the top of the Hancock Tower in Chicago, Fenves acknowledged some key figures in the room.He publicly thanked Texas chancellor Adm. William McRaven as well as those who helped organize the event. But Fenves made no acknowledgement of Patterson, who was also in the room.Sources said there were no name tags for Patterson and his wife, Yasmine Michael, when they checked in for Fenves’ reception.That allegedly led to a fit thrown by Michael, who has gotten very involved in donor relations at Texas. The lack of name tags also led to questions about if Patterson and Michael were invited, sources said.
texas is so boss
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, former Texas coach and ESPN analyst Mack Brown, Louisville AD Tom Jurich and NCAA executive vice president Oliver Luck are among the candidates to replace Patterson, sources told ESPN's Brett McMurphy.
hope they take Bowlsby