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Copied this from OB. It's some insider notes from AD Steve Patterson's meeting with the Headliner's Club.

Headliner's Club is a private club located in downtown Austin at the top of the Chase Tower. It's where the elite go to mingle. Lots of history, very old school.

His comments about facilities excites me. Said we'd make Oregon's and Alabama's look laughable compared to ours.

"Patterson was the speaker at the Tuesday Dinner Club at Headliners' tonight, and he sat with my table for the dinner portion of the evening. He covered a ton of ground between my questions at dinner, his talk and the Q&A after. I'll try to summarize as best I can:


Patterson's number one priority is the athletic department as a whole, not just the football and basketball team. (shocking statement form the Athletic Director, I know). But he values winning the Director's Cup much more so than a football national championship, in any given year. You can tell he's dialed in to all our teams and they all mean a lot to him, not just the three revenue sports. He is proud that we finished 6th last year, but he wants us finishing first, and competing with Stanford every year (even though Stanford has many more varsity programs than we do).


We are not as rich as we think we are. Patterson noted that Stanford is the only fully endowed athletic department in the country, with somewhere in the vicinity of $500,000,000 supporting its athletic programs. They are all fully provided for. By contrast, we have a $27,000,000 athletics budget. Patterson is working hard to change this. Also of note - we will finish the last fiscal year in the red for the first time in quite a while. He said not to ever expect that to happen again (it was mostly due to new hires and facilities expenses like the new volleyball practice facility).


The "UT Brand" is still a major talking point for him. Money/revenues dominated the conversation. He remains fixated on our national and international exposure, which is just as annoying as ever to hear about. However, that's not to say he isn't prioritizing the fan experience here. He acknowledged the significant deficiencies in our fan experiences at football and basketball games and says they are already working on changing the presentation of all of our sports.


Facilities upgrades are coming, and they're coming soon. He told me tried to get the south end zone and Moncrief on to next year's budget, but it couldn't come together fast enough. Expect an announcement next year, and construction sometime in 2016. It will be primarily club seating and suites, which Patterson claims are in high demand. Godzillatron is coming down and will be replaced by the newest and best HD screen. There will be significantly less advertising cluttering up the screen and many fewer ad spots coming on during games. He stated flat out that Moncrief is severely outdated, and that we are losing the arms race, but only because we are at the back of the cycle. He laughed about waterfalls in the training room (Alabama) and xbox's in lockers (Oregon). That stuff will look like novelty crap compared to the quality of the facility we install.


A new basketball arena will almost certainly not be on campus, and he intends to put significant pressure on the city for public funding for the new arena. There is no room on campus for the facility he desires. He did not elaborate on what "type" of venue he seeks, but if its a shared public space (which it will be), expect it to be more Dean Dome than Cameron Indoor.


His arrogance about the stature of UT in the state and around the country is right in line with the majority of us. He considers us the National University of Texas. Talked about how our ratings in Dallas for the UCLA game were double the Metroplex ratings of the two primetime SEC games combined. Having said that, I doubt he has his head in the sand about the money and exposure SEC schools currently enjoy.


The "duplications" (i.e., redundancies) in the AD are being taken care of. Many of the women's departments have been rolled in to the men's department and he's making the AD "more efficient" in personnel.


-That's what I can recall of the top of my head. I'm sure if any of you have specific questions, I'll remember his thoughts."
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Estelle being kicked off has made us national news the last couple of days, for better or worse.

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No Sleep said:
What did he say?
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basically said he's hearing from a lot of people that the team hasn't bought into strong's approach and his time is wearing thin in austin....a bunch of bullshyt.

as far as the players getting the boot, i have no problem with it. what people are getting is that strong has given these players plenty of chances and they keep fukking it up. the players getting let off the team have failed at least 5 drug tests since strong has been there.

anyways, roger goodell is planning on meeting with coach strong to get some ideas on his 5 core values

http://texas.247sports.com/Bolt/Goodell-wants-to-meet-with-Strong-31464423
 
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dtownreppin214 said:
brehs shawn watson is going to be strong's demise. he needs to gtfoh the day after the season ends.
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Breh, trying to copy paste this slow-down clock-eating power running bullshyt from Louisville into the Big 12 is a horrible idea. The worst part is at the end of the season he's just gonna say "Well, I didn't have the personnel to implement it." TCU tried the same thing and failed miserably.
 
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polokuo said:
Breh, trying to copy paste this slow-down clock-eating power running bullshyt from Louisville into the Big 12 is a horrible idea. The worst part is at the end of the season he's just gonna say "Well, I didn't have the personnel to implement it." TCU tried the same thing and failed miserably.
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What are you talking about? Wasn't TCU running a spread offense before this season?
 
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For the Shawn Watson haters. 1 of the UT fans I follow on twitter that's an X's & O's expert, wrote a piece on his blog about how the UT offense has transformed from the season opener to now:
Texas' Journey Midway...

Friday, October 17, 2014

It's been a while since I've blogged about the Longhorns. Needless to say, it's been a roller-coaster ride thus far and has seemed to me that the emotions evoked by this Texas team has been enough for an entire season. Nevertheless, let's revisit some things regarding what we've seen thus far.

What have Watson & Co shown us to this point? Well, it seems the offense has since been stripped-down and "repurposed" for use with new starting quarterback Tyrone Swoopes. Upon watching the season-opener, the offense was "trending" in appearance similar to what Watson installed at Louisville. Watson seemed comfortable with allowing David Ash to largely control the action regarding pre-snap checks and adjustments at the line of scrimmage and for good reason. David Ash was an experienced player with above-average recognition and "eye-skill". Fast forward to Swoopes taking over, the offense was stripped-down and a different subset of the playbook has been utilized since to suit the big man's strengths, a big arm and mobility. The focus early-on was on the quick passing game along with Texas' base run game. Though very limited, I suspect the staff sought to repetition this aspect of the Texas offense to help Swoopes improve in comfort, confidence, and recognition. Also, the run and quick passing game forms the back bone of the Texas offense and is something that a quarterback must be proficient in before becoming a difference-maker. The staff then began to expand the intermediate and deep passing game over the course of the Kansas, Baylor, and Oklahoma game. The execution in attacking these zones hasn't always been satisfactory, but the fact that it has shown growing competency is what's important. So, how would I describe Watson's offense now?

An interesting thing happened with Ash's season-ending injury. For better or worse, I believe it forced the staff to stumble upon an offensive identity that I personally had hoped for since they were first hired. There is still plenty of Watson's stamp on this offense, but make no mistake, this is a fair departure from what many fans expected from Watson after watching old Louisville games. The Texas offense is a zone-based, ball-control, variable tempo, and multiple offense. Wow, that was a mouthful! Watson's "surface games" are still present, but the offense has taken to spread tactics much more than originally expected while also avoiding the seemingly over-logical approach most spread teams take regarding passing and running the football based on box numbers. This team will line up and attempt to distort and smash your front. It may also utilize box counts to guide the run, pass, or packaged play read-option call as well. It is a nice blend of "pro" and "spread" based tactics and strategies. For instance, Texas will often place the quarterback under center in order to run the football or execute the quick passing game with quarterback movement. The variable formations and quarterback-running back backfield relationships helps to protect the offense from defenses keying in on run-pass tendencies. All that is needed from here is meaninful and purposeful practice in order to obtain the critical amount of repetitions necessary for high-level execution.

I'm now okay with the Texas offense taking the necessary time to develop and grow. When it does and the environment whithin which it exists begins allowing talented players to continually grow and cycle through it, it will be diverse enough to enable a myriad of different athletes to thrive. Hook'em Horns y'all!

http://sportsopinings.blogspot.com/2014/10/texas-journey-midway.html
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