Fan Nation: Ex TCU Coach Gary Patterson Has Been Hired By Texas

[Pure Purple]

Equivalent to "Sleeping With The Enemy" ??

 

[Frogs1983]

Cant say that I blame him. TCU did not not handle his demise very well.

Neither did he!

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Did you know Bear Bryant coached at Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M before Alabama?

this isnt a story.

this is a man looking for work and he found some. close to home even.

I’m not sure this is close correlation. GP was was at A lot of places as he worked his way up to his apex. Bear Bryant wasn’t unceremoniously ushered out of Alabama.

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Neither did he!

Granted, but how many of us would have handled it well?

 

[HornyWartyToad]

“Gary Patterson spotted wearing burnt orange and probably a Rose Bowl ring as Longhorns lose to Wildcats” would be a more appropriate headline.

Slight tweak for accuracy.

 

[geefrogs]

I’m not sure this is close correlation. GP was was at A lot of places as he worked his way up to his apex. Bear Bryant wasn’t unceremoniously ushered out of Alabama.

I understand your confusion because thats not at all what im correlating.

 

[4 Oaks Frog]

I will reiterate…Kick ass Gary!
And I will add… all except one game per year.

GO FROGS!
BEAT EVERYBODY!
Spit Blood ~~<~<and fornicate baylor!!

 

[Opintel]

Burnt Orange: when your baby eats a little meat, and carrots for dinner.

 

[count frogula]

Can't wait to see how he does taking orders and working well with others. There's not enough oxygen in the room for his ego and other UT coaches' direction or opinion. This is going to be fun to watch!

 

[Realtorfrog]

I wouldn’t say a white shirt is decked out in burnt orange but okay……, and they lost so even better!

 

[Stopit]

Take the statue down now. It was ridiculous when it was put up, and absurd to leave it up now.

 

[Brog]

Can't help but be disappointed in him for this, as much as I've admired him. I guess he just needs more $$$ than what he's saved up from his $5 million dollar annual contracts with TCU. Basic law of personal finance: you can never get enough $$.

 

[BrewingFrog]

Can't help but be disappointed in him for this, as much as I've admired him. I guess he just needs more $$$ than what he's saved up from his $5 million dollar annual contracts with TCU. Basic law of personal finance: you can never get enough $$.

I don't believe money had much to do with it. He's already got more than he can spend, and though his agent probably got a really good pile out of UT, GP is in it for two reasons: 1.) He stays in the game. It is his life, and he's not going to just walk away. 2.) Revenge.

I suggest we quit calling him Gary, and instead call him Coriolanus.

From the Shakespeare Wiki:

The play opens in Rome shortly after the expulsion of the Tarquin kings. There are riots in progress, after stores of grain were withheld from ordinary citizens. The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Marcius,[2] a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the loss of their grain. The rioters encounter a patrician named Menenius Agrippa, as well as Caius Marcius himself. Menenius tries to calm the rioters, while Marcius is openly contemptuous, and says that the plebeians were not worthy of the grain because of their lack of military service. Two of the tribunes of Rome, Brutus and Sicinius, privately denounce Marcius. He leaves Rome after news arrives that a Volscian army is in the field.

The commander of the Volscian army, Tullus Aufidius, has fought Marcius on several occasions and considers him a blood enemy. The Roman army is commanded by Cominius, with Marcius as his deputy. While Cominius takes his soldiers to meet Aufidius' army, Marcius leads a rally against the Volscian city of Corioli. The siege of Corioli is initially unsuccessful, but Marcius is able to force open the gates of the city, and the Romans conquer it. Even though he is exhausted from the fighting, Marcius marches quickly to join Cominius and fight the other Volscian force. Marcius and Aufidius meet in single combat, which ends only when Aufidius' own soldiers drag him away from the battle.

In recognition of his great courage, Cominius gives Caius Marcius the agnomen, or "official nickname", of Coriolanus. When they return to Rome, Coriolanus's mother Volumnia encourages her son to run for consul. Coriolanus is hesitant to do this, but he bows to his mother's wishes. He effortlessly wins the support of the Roman Senate, and seems at first to have won over the plebeians as well. However, Brutus and Sicinius scheme to defeat Coriolanus and instigate another riot in opposition to his becoming consul. Faced with this opposition, Coriolanus flies into a rage and rails against the concept of popular rule. He compares allowing plebeians to have power over the patricians to allowing "crows to peck the eagles". The two tribunes condemn Coriolanus as a traitor for his words and order him to be banished. Coriolanus retorts that it is he who banishes Rome from his presence.

After being exiled from Rome, Coriolanus makes his way to the Volscian capital of Antium, and asks Aufidius's help to wreak revenge upon Rome for banishing him. Moved by his plight and honoured to fight alongside the great general, Aufidius and his superiors embrace Coriolanus, and allow him to lead a new assault on Rome.

Rome, in its panic, tries desperately to persuade Coriolanus to halt his crusade for vengeance, but both Cominius and Menenius fail. Finally, Volumnia is sent to meet her son, along with Coriolanus's wife Virgilia and their child, and the chaste gentlewoman Valeria. Volumnia succeeds in dissuading her son from destroying Rome, urging him instead to clear his name by reconciling the Volscians with the Romans and creating peace.

Coriolanus concludes a peace treaty between the Volscians and the Romans. When he returns to the Volscian capital, conspirators, organised by Aufidius, kill him for his betrayal.

Hubris, meet Nemesis...

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

 

[PurpleBlood87]

I will reiterate…Kick ass Gary!
And I will add… all except one game per year.

GO FROGS!
BEAT EVERYBODY!
Spit Blood ~~<~<and fornicate baylor!!

I wish nothing but failure for Texas.

 

[HornyWartyToad]

Take the statue down now. It was ridiculous when it was put up, and absurd to leave it up now.

Legit need to tarp it, at the very least during UTerus week.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

Since I don’t know all of the inner workings, I really don’t know. It just seems it could have been handled more gracefully. He left a program so much stronger than he found it, 4 conferences later (if you include the blind date with the the Big East.). Even the declining wins and losses were better seasons than most of those in the SWC and in a tougher conference. It was like a mid season “thanks for the pretty stadium, campus, et al, we’re done with you”.
I’m sure GP’s bulldog temperament and hurt feeling played into it, but it doesn’t seem like a lot of planning or consideration was given to the demise of the most successful coach in the history of our school.

By all accounts (at least that I’m aware of), they decided to make a change and needed to ramp up the coaching search to get the right guy in place in time for early signing. So they discreetly told Gary they were making a change for next season and offered to let him finish the year then take a role in the school’s admin. Not sure what else they could’ve done. Sounds to me like they did things exactly right.

 

[FrogBall09]

Can't help but be disappointed in him for this, as much as I've admired him. I guess he just needs more $$$ than what he's saved up from his $5 million dollar annual contracts with TCU. Basic law of personal finance: you can never get enough $$.

or maybe he doesn't want to retire.....so strange that so many of our fans thought he was just going to quit working as a coach evidently.

 

[FrogBall09]

By all accounts (at least that I’m aware of), they decided to make a change and needed to ramp up the coaching search to get the right guy in place in time for early signing. So they discreetly told Gary they were making a change for next season and offered to let him finish the year then take a role in the school’s admin. Not sure what else they could’ve done. Sounds to me like they did things exactly right.

not what I have been told - more like they got caught talking to Dykes in the background and when GP found out, he requested a meeting with AD. AD moved the initial meeting GP requested up one day so VBo could attend - and in the first two mins they told him he was done at the end of the year, that he would still be the HC in name only so we could give him time to "retire" but he would not being running the program on a day to day or gameday for the rest of the season because he had lost the team - and that was when it went bad.....

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

not what I have been told - more like they got caught talking to Dykes in the background and when GP found out, he requested a meeting with AD. AD moved the initial meeting GP requested up one day so VBo could attend - and in the first two mins they told him he was done at the end of the year, that he would still be the HC in name only so we could give him time to "retire" but he would not being running the program on a day to day or gameday for the rest of the season because he had lost the team - and that was when it went bad.....

Heard lots of versions, but not one where they got "caught" talking to Sonny. By all reliable accounts, the locker room declaration of being untouchable and the beat down that week were the final tipping points.