re: Joker Phillips Has Been Fired (Letter from AD Mitch Barnhart Enclosed)

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In his defense nobody (and I really mean nobody) wanted that job.

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That's not entirely true. When we hired Brooks, there was another candidate who called expressing interest in the job. He was the then offensive coordinator of the NY Giants who had just had a lot of his play calling duties stripped from him by head coach Jim Fassel. UK declined to talk to him, and he later went on to be a OC under Parcels in Dallas and then the head coach in New Orleans. Yes, Sean Payton actually called back then and inquired about the UK job, and in typical UK fashion, we said we weren't interested.