Slasher type guys rarely work out in college athletics and that's what Patterson was and it didn't work out. Just look over in College Station and what Trev Alberts has done as a slasher type and who he has had to settle on for hires in the big 3 sports because of slashing staff, etc. I don't think it would have tarnished Luck but it also wasn't his responsibility, nor should it had been the next athletic directors responsibility. The next athletic director at that time should have come in with an empty slate and immediately started on the hiring process of the next head coach and finding ways to improve all sports. Perhaps we bring in Luck and we hire a much better football coach instead of the worst coach in program history. Then we don't have the worst decade in program history. That hiring of Patterson solely because he would can Mack set the football program back a decade essentially.