re: McCombs on Strong

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Patterson better be darn sure he has Powers' backing then. Because up until the afternoon he finally relented and push Mack out, Powers definitely sided with McCombs and Joe Jamail on how the football program should be run.

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Powers runs a university, not an athletic department. UTx's school of business is named the McCombs School. You can always hire another AD. That's simply about money. You can't readily replace donors of McCombs' magnitude.

I think they are basically using Patterson as a fall guy here. Everyone wants Red and Jamail out of the day-to-day shite but Powers can't push them back without major repercussions. Patterson will have to do so until the day something goes wrong and then he'll be ousted to placate them.