Why Does UT's $34 Million Head Coach Need a "Special Assistant"?

[TexasTowelie]

In what bizarre world should former TCU coach Gary Patterson be a “special assistant” to current Texas coach Steve Sarkisian? Sarkisian should be fetching coffee and breakfast tacos for Patterson, and if he’s smart, that’s exactly what Sark will be doing over the next few months, as Patterson offers advice on cleaning up the mess the Longhorns have become.

Dysfunction has been the state of affairs for football at the University of Texas for most of the past dozen years. Forget the University of Georgia and its shiny new national championship trophy. Pay no attention to Jimbo Fisher and all those five-star recruits he’s brought to Texas A&M. Alabama? When losing the national championship game qualifies as a catastrophe, you’re disqualified from this conversation.

When it comes to sheer rubbernecking entertainment value, the Longhorns are lapping the field. In this latest installment of the saga, Patterson has agreed to join the Longhorns as a special assistant to Sarkisian, the head football coach. In reality, Patterson is being asked to save UT athletic director Chris Del Conte’s butt.

Around this time last year, Del Conte, who worked with Patterson when both were at TCU, finished a $79 million transaction in which he fired Tom Herman and replaced him with Sarkisian, then an Alabama assistant coach. (For those counting at home, that’s about $24 million to buy out Herman and his coaching staff, plus Sarkisian’s six-year, $34.2 million deal, plus around $21 million in total salary for Sark’s assistants.)

Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/gary-patterson-texas-football-assistant/

[Javaman]

1. disgusting and obscene. no one should get that amount of money for fucking coaching football.

and UT always likes to cry poverty when they need something build. fuck'em

[Paladin]

2. Exhibit "A" as to why I refuse to give my university any money. (nt)