Article states "going home". Is he or his family originally from Texas? Otherwise, this just kind of reeks of SEC money persuading a change.
He has long been rumored to be interviewing for other jobs the last few years and if a Texas job opened up he was going to be all over it.
Originally had heard from down there that if the Thunder didn't make the playoffs they were gonna make a run at Billy Donovan, but then again what do I know.