you honestly believe that while working in secret on what is not only the biggest event of your career, but will have as big an impact on college athletics in decades cdc puts this process at risk by tipping off a guy who not only parted ways on bad terms but was gone two years ago?
As close as they supposedly were sure. He doesn't have to give Schloss a full blown presentation on what UT's plans are to say "a birdie told me that things are about to change and you might be making a really good move for you if you took a job outside the Big 12". Absolutely he could have tipped him off.
I'm sure that's what probably happened with Beard. You don't just leave a good situation with a stocked cupboard for grins, and two years ago Schloss would have never gone to A&M.