Well, that's sort of the beauty of being an analyst: You get to name your job description and demand bennies representative of your projected value to the program. Since Patterson is clearly a savant, the UT folks (and CDC) place his value up there in low Earth orbit, if not beyond, and will grant him damned near anything he wants just to tell them where they are screwing up ("Everywhere. Now, gimme another bag of money..."). I am truly unsure of the degree of guile that Patterson possesses, but would think it low given his deep sense of fairness and respect for the game. Yet, considering that he would be making demands of people who are, in large part, responsible for destroying the game that he loves, one hopes that he does what he can to not only enrich himself at their expense, but crush their schemes from the inside while doing so. left out
