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From Inside Texas, for those who care...
A couple of points to counter the texlarry post after burning up the phones and email. I'm pretty sure I know who Larry is talking to and my guess is he may be a tad bit out over his skis currently, although the seat is certainly getting hotter for Coach Strong.
1. I don't think Mike Perrin knows what's going to happen at this point. If so, he's a duplicitous son of a gun because he's helping Strong find his OC for 2016. And that's not Mike's MO according to folks who know him. As I've been saying all along, they're contingency planning both OC's and HC's.
2. On the flip side, the walls are closing in on Charlie Strong at the BMD level and Mike Perrin and Greg Fenves are well aware of it--painfully aware of it in fact. We're reaching a critical mass and I think everyone gets that. I still maintain that the last two games are critical for Charlie to have adequate support from the AD. Get trucked against Tech and Baylor and my bet is that Perrin goes to Strong and says "look, I can't sell tickets and fund-raise effectively with your name on the marquee. Let's figure out an exit strategy." As an aside, after talking to folks today, there's not a doubt in my mind that Perrin has the pledged funds to buy out Strong's contract.
3. I don't think negative publicity of firing a coach with a 4-8 record will be much of a factor either--two years into a rebuild be damned. This is big boy football and I'm confident that public relations won't be much of a concern if Texas ends up with 4 wins in 2015.
4. If you think this is just Houston driven, then I can't help you. The donor class in Houston, San Antonio, and now Dallas are all antsy. As I've contended all along, the last two games loom large.
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