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"Nine years ago, Renu Khator became president of the University of Houstonwith an ambitious plan to transform it from an undistinguished commuter school into a “nationally competitive university,” as she likes to put it. In addition to hiring noted faculty members, undertaking major construction and doubling research spending, she also strove to have the kind of big-time football team that students, alumni and the city could rally around — one that could reinforce the sense that Houston was a university to be reckoned with. Although Houston was then in Conference USA, one of the lesser college athletic leagues, the Cougars became a football powerhouse, going 13-1 in 2011. Still, that December, even before the team had played its bowl game, its coach, Kevin Sumlin, jumped ship, moving to Texas A&M, which was poised to join the powerful Southeastern Conference. His annual salary was $2 million. (It is now $5 million.)" The article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/sports/ncaafootball/houston-power-5-conference-tom-herman-renu-khator.html?emc=edit_th_20161130&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=61843218
