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Randy Duke - is this your website? Or maybe it's registered by Chip Brown?
http://www.firestevepatterson.com/
http://www.firestevepatterson.com/
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If i remember right, it was a group of people that wanted to stay anonymous, whoever is responsible for that site needs to update it and run a social media campaign like they did when they first set it up. It would probably get national attention at this point with Patterson being all over the news lately
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I like the title of this thread and it's appropriate.
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On 610 in Houston
Chip Brown, “Steve Patterson Is Rubbing People The Wrong Wayâ€
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/18/chip-brown-steve-patterson-is-rubbing-people-the-wrong-way/
Chip Brown from “The Horn†in Austin joins B-Straw & Pauly G to talk about his article on UT Athletic Director Steve Patterson. Brown says Patterson has been lying to season ticket holders, donors, and coaches.
Chip Brown, “Steve Patterson Is Rubbing People The Wrong Wayâ€
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/18/chip-brown-steve-patterson-is-rubbing-people-the-wrong-way/
Chip Brown from “The Horn†in Austin joins B-Straw & Pauly G to talk about his article on UT Athletic Director Steve Patterson. Brown says Patterson has been lying to season ticket holders, donors, and coaches.
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Patterson fails one who can save him
Steve Patterson hasn’t alienated everyone in Austin. The new University of Texas president, Gregory Fenves, started just this month.
But give Patterson time. The same former Rockets executive who once publicly questioned whether Hakeem Olajuwon was faking an injury, and whom Olajuwon then called stupid, acts the same as the UT athletic director.
Still, as Patterson has turned off donors, staff, media and fans with remarkable efficiency, it’s still surprising how he has handled one person in particular.
Charlie Strong.
Shouldn’t Patterson be doing everything he can to help him?
Last week, HornsDigest.com outlined a long list of Patterson sins. While it’s the job of any athletic director to maximize revenue, Patterson has mostly maximized his detached arrogance.
Before he arrived, for example, reunion classes were given a tour of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium as part of their weekend by UT’s alumni association. Patterson changed that — charging each participant $25 to stand on the field.
That carries over to how Patterson clumsily deals with donors. One told
HornsDigest.com that Patterson “desperately†needed to raise money for a new tennis facility, then announced as he sat down he only had 15 minutes to spare
“I said,†the donor relayed, “‘I’m sorry. I thought you all were asking me for help.’â€
Red McCombs is quoted in the piece, and he chose to show patience. “I think we have to wait and see if his ideas take off,†he is quoted as saying.
But McCombs has privately shared with friends how little he cares for Patterson. And last week, asked about him, McCombs was more pointed.
“There is a lot of angst in the Longhorn nation, and I think there is going to be more,†he said. “I would just say, a lot of his decisions are a surprise … and we all answer to somebody.â€
McCombs then mentioned Patterson’s somebody. Fenves, the new president.
“I have a lot of confidence in him,†McCombs said.
McCombs took national heat for comments after Patterson hired Strong. But those at UT don’t think McCombs was reacting to Strong as much as he was to Patterson.
McCombs had been shut out of the hiring process. He didn’t expect his opinion to overrule all others. Still, given the ample gifts he has given the university, he at least expected to be heard.
Strong has since come to San Antonio several times to talk with McCombs. They get along well, and McCombs has told Strong what he once told Mack Brown, that he will help however he can.
Athletic directors normally take the same approach, especially with a football coach. It’s the sport that raises all others.
But according to HornsDigest.com:
— Patterson denied Strong’s request to increase the salaries of his eight quality control coaches, who earn about half as much as the second-lowest paying school (Kansas). Six of the eight have now left.
— Boosters say they would be willing to let coaches use their private planes to scout or recruit, but Patterson has never reached out.
— Patterson has refused to settle a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma State over a football assistant’s buyout, creating a distraction that is still ongoing.
— And, last week, Patterson fired sports information director John Bianco, who had earned Strong’s trust.
Strong lost an ally he will need, and Bianco provided another quality that an athletic director should want. Brand consistency. He’d been around for 23 years, and he had strong connections to the past.
“First of all, I love the guy,†Colt McCoy said Saturday. “He played such an important role for all of us. He was there for advice, there to lead us in the right direction. I still call him with questions. He embodied what Texas was all about.
“But he was also the only one who reached out between Coach Brown and Coach Strong. He was the bridge between the eras for a lot of us. So to fire a guy like that …â€
Ask Strong today: Wouldn’t you want to connect to UT’s history, to sell the best of Brown’s years to a new set of recruits?
Strong won’t win or lose games just because of that, or because an assistant is bothered by a lawsuit, or because quality control coaches are leaving.
But if Patterson were smart, he would give Strong everything he needs to succeed and more. After all, Patterson is losing friends, and reports say his program is losing money, and that puts him on the path to losing his job.
But if Patterson’s biggest hire wins?
McCombs laughed last week. “Winning cures everything,†he said.
And he emphasized the word “everything.â€
http://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/buck_harvey/article/Patterson-fails-one-who-can-save-him-6339776.php?t=40f7e7194eebaa2aab&cmpid=twitter-premium
Steve Patterson hasn’t alienated everyone in Austin. The new University of Texas president, Gregory Fenves, started just this month.
But give Patterson time. The same former Rockets executive who once publicly questioned whether Hakeem Olajuwon was faking an injury, and whom Olajuwon then called stupid, acts the same as the UT athletic director.
Still, as Patterson has turned off donors, staff, media and fans with remarkable efficiency, it’s still surprising how he has handled one person in particular.
Charlie Strong.
Shouldn’t Patterson be doing everything he can to help him?
Last week, HornsDigest.com outlined a long list of Patterson sins. While it’s the job of any athletic director to maximize revenue, Patterson has mostly maximized his detached arrogance.
Before he arrived, for example, reunion classes were given a tour of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium as part of their weekend by UT’s alumni association. Patterson changed that — charging each participant $25 to stand on the field.
That carries over to how Patterson clumsily deals with donors. One told
HornsDigest.com that Patterson “desperately†needed to raise money for a new tennis facility, then announced as he sat down he only had 15 minutes to spare
“I said,†the donor relayed, “‘I’m sorry. I thought you all were asking me for help.’â€
Red McCombs is quoted in the piece, and he chose to show patience. “I think we have to wait and see if his ideas take off,†he is quoted as saying.
But McCombs has privately shared with friends how little he cares for Patterson. And last week, asked about him, McCombs was more pointed.
“There is a lot of angst in the Longhorn nation, and I think there is going to be more,†he said. “I would just say, a lot of his decisions are a surprise … and we all answer to somebody.â€
McCombs then mentioned Patterson’s somebody. Fenves, the new president.
“I have a lot of confidence in him,†McCombs said.
McCombs took national heat for comments after Patterson hired Strong. But those at UT don’t think McCombs was reacting to Strong as much as he was to Patterson.
McCombs had been shut out of the hiring process. He didn’t expect his opinion to overrule all others. Still, given the ample gifts he has given the university, he at least expected to be heard.
Strong has since come to San Antonio several times to talk with McCombs. They get along well, and McCombs has told Strong what he once told Mack Brown, that he will help however he can.
Athletic directors normally take the same approach, especially with a football coach. It’s the sport that raises all others.
But according to HornsDigest.com:
— Patterson denied Strong’s request to increase the salaries of his eight quality control coaches, who earn about half as much as the second-lowest paying school (Kansas). Six of the eight have now left.
— Boosters say they would be willing to let coaches use their private planes to scout or recruit, but Patterson has never reached out.
— Patterson has refused to settle a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma State over a football assistant’s buyout, creating a distraction that is still ongoing.
— And, last week, Patterson fired sports information director John Bianco, who had earned Strong’s trust.
Strong lost an ally he will need, and Bianco provided another quality that an athletic director should want. Brand consistency. He’d been around for 23 years, and he had strong connections to the past.
“First of all, I love the guy,†Colt McCoy said Saturday. “He played such an important role for all of us. He was there for advice, there to lead us in the right direction. I still call him with questions. He embodied what Texas was all about.
“But he was also the only one who reached out between Coach Brown and Coach Strong. He was the bridge between the eras for a lot of us. So to fire a guy like that …â€
Ask Strong today: Wouldn’t you want to connect to UT’s history, to sell the best of Brown’s years to a new set of recruits?
Strong won’t win or lose games just because of that, or because an assistant is bothered by a lawsuit, or because quality control coaches are leaving.
But if Patterson were smart, he would give Strong everything he needs to succeed and more. After all, Patterson is losing friends, and reports say his program is losing money, and that puts him on the path to losing his job.
But if Patterson’s biggest hire wins?
McCombs laughed last week. “Winning cures everything,†he said.
And he emphasized the word “everything.â€
http://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/buck_harvey/article/Patterson-fails-one-who-can-save-him-6339776.php?t=40f7e7194eebaa2aab&cmpid=twitter-premium
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The problem with the "winning cures everything" attitude is it allows Patterson to delude himself into thinking nothing he is doing is wrong in the least and the only real problem is that Charlie Strong is failing.
"Winning cures everything" is a very dangerous attitude.
"Winning cures everything" is a very dangerous attitude.
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I didn't like the way Patterson handled the firing of Barnes.
Report: Heat on Texas AD stems in part from treatment of Rick Barnes
A year and a half ago, Texas reached into the professional ranks to hire Steve Patterson as Athletic Director, replacing Deloss Dodds, who spent three decades in that role.
Patterson has made two strong hires in the school’s most high profile coaching positions — poaching football coach Charlie Strong from Louisville and the highly-sought after Shaka Smart from VCU — but according to a bombshell story from Horns Digest on Thursday morning, Patterson is facing some serious questions in the athletic department. The biggest issues, according to the story, are that Patterson is ruthlessly frugal, putting the bottom line over student athlete welfare and community relations, and that he’s not good at dealing with people.
There are a myriad of examples in that story, but we’re going to stick with what Patterson’s has reportedly done to hurt the hoops program. For starters, he has reportedly changed the way that the basketball team can recruit. Former head coach Rick Barnes was allowed to use a 737 with 50 first class seats to travel to recruiting events, per Horns Digest. It was negotiated into Barnes’ contract as a way to compete with Kansas, the only other Big 12 team to use a jet that big to travel, but Patterson has cut the 737. Texas will be using smaller charter jets under Smart.
Patterson also failed to discuss this season’s travel plans with the basketball team. They’ll be flying to China for a game on Nov. 13 against Washington, an effort to develop the Pac-12’s brand in the basketball-mad country, and then heading to the Bahamas on Nov. 21 for a tournament. According to Horns Digest, when he was asked by the basketball staff about that decision, he simply responded, “we’re goingâ€.
Last September, Patterson told Texas Monthly that the city of Austin should chip in on the new Texas basketball arena, scheduled to be built in the coming years, because they’ve gotten a free ride with the Erwin Center.
But here’s the big one: Patterson planted the story that Barnes had to fire his staff to keep his job. From Horns Digest:
Former basketball coach Rick Barnes indicated publicly Patterson was the source of a vicious press leak before Barnes’ firing.
A source told the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning News and San Antonio Express-News that Barnes had to change out his staff or face termination. All the while, sources said, Patterson was telling Barnes privately that he was fighting for him but that “people above me†wanted Barnes out.
Barnes’ accusation caught the attention of other UT coaches and some key power brokers at Texas and raised serious questions about the way Patterson does business, multiple sources said.
There’s a lot more in that story, and if you’re a Texas sports fan, I really suggest you read it. The story’s author, Chip Brown, has covered Texas sports for a long time and was one of the biggest news-breakers when it came to conference realignment a few years back.
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/18/report-heat-on-texas-ad-stems-in-part-from-treatment-of-rick-barnes/
Report: Heat on Texas AD stems in part from treatment of Rick Barnes
A year and a half ago, Texas reached into the professional ranks to hire Steve Patterson as Athletic Director, replacing Deloss Dodds, who spent three decades in that role.
Patterson has made two strong hires in the school’s most high profile coaching positions — poaching football coach Charlie Strong from Louisville and the highly-sought after Shaka Smart from VCU — but according to a bombshell story from Horns Digest on Thursday morning, Patterson is facing some serious questions in the athletic department. The biggest issues, according to the story, are that Patterson is ruthlessly frugal, putting the bottom line over student athlete welfare and community relations, and that he’s not good at dealing with people.
There are a myriad of examples in that story, but we’re going to stick with what Patterson’s has reportedly done to hurt the hoops program. For starters, he has reportedly changed the way that the basketball team can recruit. Former head coach Rick Barnes was allowed to use a 737 with 50 first class seats to travel to recruiting events, per Horns Digest. It was negotiated into Barnes’ contract as a way to compete with Kansas, the only other Big 12 team to use a jet that big to travel, but Patterson has cut the 737. Texas will be using smaller charter jets under Smart.
Patterson also failed to discuss this season’s travel plans with the basketball team. They’ll be flying to China for a game on Nov. 13 against Washington, an effort to develop the Pac-12’s brand in the basketball-mad country, and then heading to the Bahamas on Nov. 21 for a tournament. According to Horns Digest, when he was asked by the basketball staff about that decision, he simply responded, “we’re goingâ€.
Last September, Patterson told Texas Monthly that the city of Austin should chip in on the new Texas basketball arena, scheduled to be built in the coming years, because they’ve gotten a free ride with the Erwin Center.
But here’s the big one: Patterson planted the story that Barnes had to fire his staff to keep his job. From Horns Digest:
Former basketball coach Rick Barnes indicated publicly Patterson was the source of a vicious press leak before Barnes’ firing.
A source told the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning News and San Antonio Express-News that Barnes had to change out his staff or face termination. All the while, sources said, Patterson was telling Barnes privately that he was fighting for him but that “people above me†wanted Barnes out.
Barnes’ accusation caught the attention of other UT coaches and some key power brokers at Texas and raised serious questions about the way Patterson does business, multiple sources said.
There’s a lot more in that story, and if you’re a Texas sports fan, I really suggest you read it. The story’s author, Chip Brown, has covered Texas sports for a long time and was one of the biggest news-breakers when it came to conference realignment a few years back.
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/18/report-heat-on-texas-ad-stems-in-part-from-treatment-of-rick-barnes/
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This is the second time Steve Patterson has screwed around with a sports team that I've followed. I was already a long time Houston Rocket fan when he took over as GM in 1989. His two most important duties as GM at that time was to please Hakeem because he was your superstar just like Cleveland is making sure to please Lebron.
It was also his job to place the pieces around Hakeem to win a championship. Patterson failed miserably on both those jobs. Hakeem was so great that the Rockets could win 45-50 games a year, but then they would go out in first round. He wasted four of Hakeem's prime years by failing to hire the right coaches and to acquire the right players.
Finally, Hakeem demanded to be traded and Patterson was dumb enough to try to trade Hakeem to Miami, but Miami was even dumber and refused to trade Rony Seikaly, Grant Long, and Harold Miner to the Rockets. Fortunately, Hakeem stayed and Patterson was later fired which was the year before the Rockets won there first NBA Championship.
Patterson has the nerve to have on his Linked in page that he was the primary architect of 1993-94 NBA championship team. That's a load of BS, not getting along with your superstar and offering a dumb trade means you get no credit for the championship and you weren't on the team anymore. I don't think it was a coincidence that the Rockets won the championship as soon as he left.
I don't believe that someone who can't get along with people should be the AD of the University of Texas. When one of your primary jobs is to raise money from donors, you want to at least be able to pretend that you can stand being around them.
Hakeem is right. I don't recall Hakeem saying something like this about anyone else.
Hakeem Olajuwon has called Houston General Manager Steve Patterson stupid and threatened to sue
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/217883/FED-UP-ROCKETS-LIKELY-READY-TO-PUT-HAKEEM-ON-THE-TRADING-BLOCK.html?pg=all
It was also his job to place the pieces around Hakeem to win a championship. Patterson failed miserably on both those jobs. Hakeem was so great that the Rockets could win 45-50 games a year, but then they would go out in first round. He wasted four of Hakeem's prime years by failing to hire the right coaches and to acquire the right players.
Finally, Hakeem demanded to be traded and Patterson was dumb enough to try to trade Hakeem to Miami, but Miami was even dumber and refused to trade Rony Seikaly, Grant Long, and Harold Miner to the Rockets. Fortunately, Hakeem stayed and Patterson was later fired which was the year before the Rockets won there first NBA Championship.
Patterson has the nerve to have on his Linked in page that he was the primary architect of 1993-94 NBA championship team. That's a load of BS, not getting along with your superstar and offering a dumb trade means you get no credit for the championship and you weren't on the team anymore. I don't think it was a coincidence that the Rockets won the championship as soon as he left.
I don't believe that someone who can't get along with people should be the AD of the University of Texas. When one of your primary jobs is to raise money from donors, you want to at least be able to pretend that you can stand being around them.
Hakeem is right. I don't recall Hakeem saying something like this about anyone else.
Hakeem Olajuwon has called Houston General Manager Steve Patterson stupid and threatened to sue
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/217883/FED-UP-ROCKETS-LIKELY-READY-TO-PUT-HAKEEM-ON-THE-TRADING-BLOCK.html?pg=all
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Patterson appears intelligent, but without social skills. He appears to have made it to the ranks of GM's and a highly paid AD with brains and education, but without any social grace or class. That simply will not work in a high profile position like the one at Texas. Hate it, because I take a job seriously, but that is the reality at Texas.
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Man, where would we be if Oliver Luck had been hired instead?
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I have just one thing to say about all of this...
William H. McRaven Retired Admiral, United States Navy
U.S. Special Operations Command, Joint Special Operations Command
Special Operations Command Europe, Naval Special Warfare Group 1, SEAL Team 3
Chancellor of The University of Texas System
William H. McRaven Retired Admiral, United States Navy
U.S. Special Operations Command, Joint Special Operations Command
Special Operations Command Europe, Naval Special Warfare Group 1, SEAL Team 3
Chancellor of The University of Texas System
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Rumor is Luck expressed an unwillingness to fire Mack during the interview process.
We might be in the market for a new AD, because Luck took a job with the NCAA a few months ago. How much did he enjoy being an AD if he'd leave his alma mater to take a NCAA job?
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