UTK66, the "hiring committee" was intended to represent the interests of the BMD's running this deal and were represented by Steve Hicks, Bobby Stillwell, and Robert Rowling. These guys matter...a lot. They were frozen out of the final decision making. That is a critical tactical error by Patterson that has cost him enormous political capital in the last 24 hours.
Have you bothered to notice that Fisher has converted FSU into a machine that identifies, recruits, develops and turns out large numbers of NFL caliber players from an ACC school with limited resources and right in the heart of the mighty SEC recruiting grounds? His team is the only major university that remains undefeated and is excellent in every facet of the game. He is the favorite to end the SEC's dominance on MNCs when no other school has been able to do it. Charlie Strong is a good coach but he does not have a track record that can in any way compare to Fisher's. Fisher would have been well worth waiting for and an additional $2 million per year.
That his job, if he went outside the box, then that is his right as this is his job on the line. No one from the search committee is going to get fired if this blows up in their faces. You empower a person to do a job, and then you question the methods of him doing the job. That's what leads you to the current situation where Texas is in.
Says you, have you ever hired a football coach? It's just ridiculous to extrapolate results from one school to another. More times than not it doesn't work out that way. You say Strong doesn't have anywhere near the track record that Fisher does. Fisher's track until this year was spotty at best, with questionable losses every year in a equally weak football conference.
Not it's not. There is absolutely no way to say 100% Fisher would leave FSU and Winston to coach at Texas. So you risk losing Strong, who is ready to take the job, for less than a sure thing. That's not how you run an AD.
