Steve Patterson fired (Texas AD)
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Of course, I'm not denying entirely that Texas being Texas doesn't help the decision, but I guarantee if Louisville could have beat the salary, it would have been a much harder decision for him.
Meyer- Left UF why? Don't be naive. OSU tossed him a pile of money.
Saban- That guy has made enough career moves that believing otherwise is silly.
Miles-Don't know enough about him.
Stoops-Same.
There are a lot of coaches that have zero ties to a school or state. Who was name calling? I was calling your opinion uneducated, idiot.
Meyer chose OSU to win a National Championship
Saban went to NFL, hated it, chose Alabama to win a National Championship
Miles knew OkieSt couldn't give him what he needed, left for LSU to win a National Championship
Stoops chose OU to win a National Championship
Schools that have the resources to compete for National Championships have the resources to pay coaches a lot of money.
Meyer left Florida because it turned into a dumpster fire. He then went to ESPN.
Cute. Neither of us know what went through Strongs mind, but I can guarantee alot of $$$s played a big role in that decision, especially with the mess that Mac Brown left behind.
Guys like that are natural born coaches and leaders. The belief that only those schools could get the job done for them I think is a little silly. Anyone that rises up to win their first national title had to start somewhere. Does it increase odds? Sure. But money is clearly playing a large role in it because those schools have the financial resources too.
All of that was because of his alleged health issues, and yet he wound up at the helm of OSU.
All I'm suggesting is that if they offered somewhere close to the average rather than the top pay, it wouldn't have been such a given.
The same goes for Charlie Strong. He knows the mess he jumped in to. Being texas surely played a role, but leaving something good in Louisville behind for the messy situation at Texas takes a degree of courage and a pretty penny to go with it.
The Patterson administration has been a sinking ship. Chip Brown wrote a damning article over the summer about all of the miscues of Steve during his first 20 months on the job. Joe Jamail, a prominent Texas Lawyer whose name is on the field, refused to renew his suite at DKR for this season, if that doesn't say enough. Steve wasn't even able to locate some donors' suites, despite the principal job of an AD being to keep donors happy and willing to give more. Add in accounts of arguments with David Boren at B12 media days, and it has seemed almost inevitable.
Courage or ignorance. He was a bad hire who made an even worse career choice going down there.
So coaches can't got to jobs because they want to make more money AND have a better shot at winning a championship? They can only choose one? Am I understanding this thread correctly?
