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Gold & Blue Lunch: Texas will LOVE its next AD—Patterson made sure of that

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Given the damning stories pouring out at Texas, can we assume Steve Patterson will have a cameo in Horrible Bosses 3?

His 22-month tenure as the Longhorns’ AD left a swath of bruised feelings, disrespected constituents and in-house turnover. While Texas, like most athletics departments, probably needed to lose some fat, Patterson tried to go lipo/lap-band/starvation in Austin.

Chip Brown’s latest story for HornsDigest.com revealed that in August, Texas president Greg Fenves took the unusual step of meeting with football coach Charlie Strong and basketball coach Shaka Smart to investigate their relationships with Patterson.