re: Potential Head Coach Tracker

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John L. Smith status: Done

Likely candidates: Gary Patterson. We wrote last month that we were hearing AD Jeff Long was strong on Patterson and now that story is only growing louder. Check the web and you’ll quickly find that Patterson is building a house in the Fort Worth area, but if he sees Arkansas as a better and better-paying situation than the one he’s got at TCU, you can forget the house thing. He can afford to build a bigger house in Fayetteville if need be. We’ve been told “this one is all but done.” Negotiations can always blow up and deals can always fall through. We know that. But if there’s no fire with the Patterson-to-Arkansas talk, then Long has put out one of the best smokescreens ever. Patterson said today of the Arkansas rumors: “I don’t think there’s anything to that.” How’s that for a non-denial denial?

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