Journal Sentinel has an article on it that sounds like UW was planning on keeping him as the OL coach. He said the biggest factor is both sides of his family have ties to the area. "I can’t lie," he said. "Location was big, being (closer) to our families in North Carolina, Pittsburgh and West Virginia was a pretty unique scenario." It did note that he took a 6% pay reduction last year down to 675,000. Also stated that Christ will discuss the opening with Bostad before looking elsewhere.