It was the UT president who personally pushed to look at Tadlock & Schloss.
http://www.hookem.com/story/31-days-texas-insiders-look-baseball-coaching-search/
- At the Big 12 meetings in Dallas, UT athletic director Mike Perrin tells TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte “we’re going in a different direction” and will not pursue the Horned Frogs’ Jim Schlossnagle
- A very reliable source tells us Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin all but accepted the job before flying to Dallas and changing his mind at the Dallas airport en route to Austin although a Vanderbilt spokesman denied the account.
- UT president Gregory L. Fenves was high on Jim Schlossnagle and Tim Tadlock and pressed Perrin to reach out to them.
http://www.hookem.com/story/31-days-texas-insiders-look-baseball-coaching-search/