Sabre, most of what I read about him seemed good. Arizona State seemed to have solid football, basketball and baseball programs. The reporting when he was interviewing was positive. He went to UT undergrad as well as law. He was also a basketball guy and I was hoping he would fix the serious structural problems in the program. I would not have believed he would actually increase the structural problems (if the report about building a stadium south of the colorado is true) with basketball. I am surprised anyone would raise the football ticket prices like this without winning. If I had known "the rocketman" at games was part of his platform, I would obviously not have been excited.
While I would still have been happy with Luck and wish we had him now, there were some reasons at the time I was unsure about him. They really were nothing big though and I was not anti-Luck. I actually thought both were good and was happy we were choosing between what I thought were two good options. I was never a Dodds fan (am still not) and personally had a pretty low bar for the AD due to Dodds. I also thought both had to be better than Dodds. Like I said, so far very disappointed.
If Andrew Hamilton of Oxford is made the next president of UT, it seems unlikely Patterson, for better or worse, goes anywhere. My gut feeling is that as an Englishman, Hamilton would have little interest in American college athletics and would leave Patterson alone. Such a policy could be great with a great AD or terrible with a terrible AD. I would like to note this paragraph is nothing more than mere speculation. We'll see how it plays out.
All in all, the consensus seems to be that Patterson has not made good moves so far. Hopefully Patterson will do better.
Last edited: Mar 12, 2015