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Newy interviewed an emotional Coach P about the title game
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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 3247701" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>You're minimizing events to downplay the role Patterson played in his own demise. If only it were as simplistic as you portray. Unfortunately, there's a lot more to it than simply GP being "unable to sustain momentum." In the first place, he was offered multiple opportunities over multiple years to make needed changes. He simply refused. Presumably, that's when the hubris had taken over. Nobody was going to tell him how to run his program, and he wasn't open to even the most positive and constructive suggestions because he had come to believe (as he told his players ), "I'm untouchable."</p><p></p><p>In the second place, when TCU decided it was time for him to exit the head coach picture, the University offered him the dignity of stepping up into a prominent administrative position. It was the same basic exit scenario TCU offered its second-greatest coach, Dutch Meyer, in 1952. Since TCU was attempting to honor Patterson in the same way it had honored the Dutchman, it was anyhting but a slap in the face or being kicked to the curb. His ego simply wouldn't allow him to accept it with the same grace and dignity as Dutch had exhibited. Instead, he threw a hissy and stormed off in a picque to embrace UT.</p><p></p><p>I have no venom for GP. I'm grateful for his contributions, and unlike many here, I don't resent his association with the Longhorns. However,</p><p>I do not care for the contempt he showed for TCU's generous offer, nor for making his exit far more awkward and downright rancorous than it had to be. TCU will not ignore his front-rank role in our football history. The time will come for reconciliation and recognition -- just as it did with Kenneth Davis. But that time is not now. Frankly, it's far too soon. And some of you have a really lousey sense of timing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 3247701, member: 17"] You're minimizing events to downplay the role Patterson played in his own demise. If only it were as simplistic as you portray. Unfortunately, there's a lot more to it than simply GP being "unable to sustain momentum." In the first place, he was offered multiple opportunities over multiple years to make needed changes. He simply refused. Presumably, that's when the hubris had taken over. Nobody was going to tell him how to run his program, and he wasn't open to even the most positive and constructive suggestions because he had come to believe (as he told his players ), "I'm untouchable." In the second place, when TCU decided it was time for him to exit the head coach picture, the University offered him the dignity of stepping up into a prominent administrative position. It was the same basic exit scenario TCU offered its second-greatest coach, Dutch Meyer, in 1952. Since TCU was attempting to honor Patterson in the same way it had honored the Dutchman, it was anyhting but a slap in the face or being kicked to the curb. His ego simply wouldn't allow him to accept it with the same grace and dignity as Dutch had exhibited. Instead, he threw a hissy and stormed off in a picque to embrace UT. I have no venom for GP. I'm grateful for his contributions, and unlike many here, I don't resent his association with the Longhorns. However, I do not care for the contempt he showed for TCU's generous offer, nor for making his exit far more awkward and downright rancorous than it had to be. TCU will not ignore his front-rank role in our football history. The time will come for reconciliation and recognition -- just as it did with Kenneth Davis. But that time is not now. Frankly, it's far too soon. And some of you have a really lousey sense of timing. [/QUOTE]
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