Charlie Strong: the next Rich Rodriguez?

I should preface this by saying that I wholeheartedly hate Texas as it is my duty as a Hog fan, but after the game last night I perused the UT boards and came away with the feeling that Strong's career arc is mirroring that of Rich Rodriguez, sans the D-II coaching stint.

Both had great tenures as coordinators.
Both led Big East programs to great success.
Both were hot commodities on the coaching market who turned down great SEC jobs (Bama, Tennessee).
Both left said programs for "destination" jobs and replaced coaches with a NC ring who'd worn out their welcomes.
Both walked into bad situations and were met with resistance from the start from fans, alumni and boosters.
Both had extremely rocky first years at these schools.

Strong is like a basketball player playing with 4 fouls right now because he wasn't their first choice to begin with. It's easy to change a program's culture and clean house when you're perceived to be a home run hire and greeted with a red carpet hero's welcome (Saban, Harbaugh), but it's a lot tougher when the perception is that you were a fallback hire and you're getting called out by boosters like Red McCombs before coaching a down.

I get the feeling that in the end, he'll have been the one who does the dirty work of cleaning house, fumigating the stench of Mack Brown from the program, and rebuilding the roster but that he won't be the one to see it through. I don't feel bad for him given his salary and the type of program Texas is, but I've definitely seen this movie before.