As for all of the calls from the fans urging the University to cut Patterson loose, Babers says it’s happened before to other Longhorn personnel. Ensured $1.4 million every year until 2019, Patterson is relied upon to settle for “not as much as contract”.
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The first of a series of tweets was in response to a fan asking for confirmation that Del Conte wouldn’t head south on Interstate 35 for the newly vacated Texas job.
I write to let you know that Texas Men’s Athletics Director Steve Patterson has resigned. For now, Perrin will serve in the interim position.
Texas will introduce Perrin during an 11 a.m. Connecticut press conference on Wednesday at the Tower.
Angry season ticket holders and disgruntled key donors will probably be glad to know the 68-year-old Perrin is one of their own.
“Perrin, a respected Houston attorney who Fenves hailed for his “complete integrity and impeccable judgment”, said he realizes electricity has been missing at UT lately”.
Patterson lasted 22 months before getting fired on Tuesday.
“I had a couple of conversations with Greg since he took over (in June)”, Brown said. However, at a school as big as Texas with the nation’s most profitable athletic department, it would certainly be a big leap of faith to put someone without any experience as an AD in that post with the Longhorns. Fenves said he’s in no hurry to start a search for a permanent replacement. “It concerns me that fans last week voted with their feet”.
The move comes just two games into the football season and with Texas in the midst of negotiating a new equipment and apparel deal.
He distanced himself from a lawsuit involving current football assistant Joe Wickline and fellow Big 12 member Oklahoma State that has led to coaches being deposed under oath. After all, he had brought some needed business acumen to the enterprise, and his hiring of Charlie Strong as football coach and Shaka Smart as basketball coach has been widely praised.
It also doesn’t mean Charlie Strong’s job is safe.
Patterson and Fenves “mutually agreed” to go their separate ways.
In certain sections they might decrease a tad, but modern day college athletics is all about the dollar. Patterson’s predecessor, DeLoss Dodds, sat off to the side.
Another year, another high-profile athletic director lacking a strong college athletics background ousted. “I consider him a personal friend and I look forward to continuing to support him”. “I’ve known Mike for years”. They wanted Nick Saban – and they weren’t interested in any excuses why the Longhorns could not have him.
It doesn’t mean Texas isn’t in total disorganization. He reached out to Texas Exes executive director Leslie Cedar on Tuesday night and asked specifically about halftime. Perrin said he’s excited.
“It was a mutual decision”, Fenves said.
“Mike will be a welcome voice in the room”, Plonsky said. You see a potential issue? “Melinda, I think, is actually the fireball”.
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Perrin earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a law degree from UT Austin, where he was a Longhorn football letterman under Coach Darrell Royal. He will make $750,000 in a contract that runs through August 2016. “Whatever President Fenves attaches to that is my use of it as well”.
