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    The potential of Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian adding former TCU head coach Gary Patterson to his coaching staff could soon be a reality, or at least there’s real potential for things to head in that direction. On the heels of a recent meeting with Sarkisian, Horns247 has learned that Patterson is expected to be on the Forty Acres as early as Thursday to meet with coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski and the Longhorns’ defensive staff to further explore the possibility of a role on that side of the ball for Patterson.

    The meeting, a source with knowledge of the situation indicated, is said to be one where Patterson and the Texas coaches will feel one another out to see if there’s a fit within the program that makes sense for the man who led TCU to 181 victories, 11 finishes in the Associated Press Top 25 and six conference championships (including a share of the Big 12 title in 2014) over 20 full seasons at the helm in Fort Worth. It’s currently unclear what the next step would be for either party following the meeting.

    What’s becoming clear, however, is Patterson’s potential role with the Longhorns. Horns247 has learned that Patterson isn’t interested in a traditional analyst role and his role wouldn’t be one where he would replace Kwiatkowski as coordinator.

    If Patterson were to join the Texas staff, sources indicate he would take on a role similar to the one he hired Jerry Kill to fill for the Horned Frogs over the last two seasons. Leading up to Oct. 31 when Kill became interim head coach after TCU and Patterson parted ways, the recently-hired New Mexico State head coach held the title of special assistant to the head coach in charge of offense.

    Kill wasn’t one of TCU’s 10 full-time assistant coaches, meaning he couldn’t actively coach players on the field. What Kill could do, however, was oversee things and be heavily involved the day-to-day operations on that side of the ball while not being the in-game play-caller (Kill wore a headset for games, for what it’s worth, but he reportedly wasn’t in direct communication with the offensive staff throughout the game).

    “I coach the coaches,” Kill said in the spring of 2020 when discussing his role with the Horned Frogs. “I watch the film with them, go over all the techniques, everything we’re doing. I can be there during game day, make recruiting suggestions. I can do anything off the field, and during practice, I can be on the field. You can coach a lot and not have to say anything.”

    The Longhorns could use an all-hands-on-deck approach to fixing a defense that finished the team’s 5-7 campaign in 2021 as one of the worst in school history. Kwiatkowski’s first Texas defense was only the seventh in school history to give up 5,000 or more yards in a season (5,107), while the 2021 stoppers posted the following dubious single-season marks in program history: the second worst in yards per rushing attempt allowed (5.15), the third-worst scoring defense (31.1 points per game allowed), the third worst in yards per play allowed (6.03), the fourth worst in total yards per game allowed (425.6) and the seventh worst in rushing yards per game allowed (201.6).

    Multiple sources have told Horns247 that the Patterson-to-Texas scenario has been made possible due in no small measure to the relationship Patterson has with Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte. Before he was hired to take over in Austin for then-interim Texas athletic director Mike Perrin on Dec. 9, 2017, Del Conte was TCU’s athletic director for eight years, a period of time that included Patterson leading the football program to an undefeated 2010 season, which concluded with a Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin, and the Horned Frogs’ transition into the Big 12 Conference (under Patterson, TCU has won seven of 10 gridiron meetings with the Longhorns since joining the league in 2012).

     

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