It’s no secret that one of Steve Patterson’s goals is to further expand the Longhorn brand internationally. The Texas basketball team is slated to open next season in Japan, while plans for the football team to play in Mexico City were met with strong resistance and later scratched. That hasn’t stopped Patterson, however, who has apparently enlisted the help of Mack Brown to set up a future football game in Dubai.
Now those conversations are starting to happen in earnest, with Brown as the ambassador for the school doing what he does best — glad-handing with alums (read: donors and potential donors) and in general using his political charm to benefit the university.