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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director Steve Patterson will be involved in the search to replace Mack Brown. (Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Texas athletic director Steve Patterson has appointed an eight-person advisory search committee to replace Mack Brown, the school announced Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The school also has retained the\u00A0executive recruiting firm Korn/Ferry for the search to hire a new head football coach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FORBES: Texas ranked most valuable college football program&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The eight search committee members, according to UT -- per the &lt;em&gt;Austin American Statesman\u00A0&lt;/em&gt;-- are:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tSteve Hicks,\u00A0vice chair of the Board of Regents, one of the board\u2019s athletics liaisons, and owner and executive chairman of Capstar Partners LLC, a private investment firm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tRobert Stillwell,\u00A0member of the Board of Regents, one of the board\u2019s athletics liaisons, retired partner at Baker Botts LLP and an original director of Mesa Petroleum Co.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tMichael Clement,\u00A0accounting professor, McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, and faculty representative to the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Athletics Councils.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tRicardo Hinojosa, United States federal judge for the Southern District of Texas, former member of the university\u2019s Commission of 125.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tCharles Matthews,\u00A0former vice president and general counsel of Exxon Mobil, current president of the Texas Exes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tRobert Rowling,\u00A0former member of the Board of Regents and owner and chairman of TRT Holdings Inc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tCharles Tate,\u00A0chairman of Capital Royalty, former member of the executive committee of the university\u2019s Commission of 125.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\tPamela Willeford,\u00A0former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and former chair of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/BDavisAAS/status/413431342848692225&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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