Coaching News and Rumors

[Horn6721]

phil
I am sorry for how things turned out with Brown's leaving. Hate that we had to go through so many bad years when we could have had Saban.
I don't know many people OR institutions that don't put what they see as a good for them ahead of anything else

 

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[das3603]

MB's greatest sin in my eyes is that he put what was good for Mack Brown ahead of what was good for The University of Texas.

You know, and I respect everyone’s opinion here, but I just don’t care if he acted like a baby at the end. He restored pride and a fear in our opponents that had been missing for so long. If you look at the coaches we had before and after Mack (McWilliams, Mackovic - he actually won something but everyone hated him, Strong, Herman) I don’t know how you can’t just tip your cap in gratitude to Mack. We’ve had some really ****** years in the 2 decades surrounding his tenure. If I won a championship for a “blue blood” that waited 35 years since the last one, I’d flex whatever muscle I had and would tell the BMD’s to blow me. But that’s just me.

 

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[Horns11]

You know, and I respect everyone’s opinion here, but I just don’t care if he acted like a baby at the end. He restored pride and a fear in our opponents that had been missing for so long. If you look at the coaches we had before and after Mack (McWilliams, Mackovic - he actually won something but everyone hated him, Strong, Herman) I don’t know how you can’t just tip your cap in gratitude to Mack. We’ve had some really ****** years in the 2 decades surrounding his tenure. If I won a championship for a “blue blood” that waited 35 years since the last one, I’d flex whatever muscle I had and would tell the BMD’s to blow me. But that’s just me.

Ditto with the gratitude, however...

For me it wasn't the attitude in 2013. It was the loyalty to guys who were either 9-toes-out-the-door-checked-out or fondling coeds.

Whether it was making Ron Prince look like Vince Lombardi, or giving Larry Mac Duff another shot at coaching after the game had passed him by, or allowing Bobby Kennedy anywhere near a paycheck, Mack's stubbornness really sent us back to the stone age in terms of culture and development. When the rest of the college football world was energized by change, Mack shut down. Chris Petersen said "hell no" because of what was left in the cupboard when Mack resigned.

 

[SabreHorn]

What was left in the cupboard was not the primary reason Peterson said "no".

 

[Horns11]

What was left in the cupboard was not the primary reason Peterson said "no".

Oh for sure, but from what I heard, there was a definite swear word before the "no."

Moving on to "Option #2" of Chuck Strong was kind of a Hail Mary in terms of desperation.

 

[SabreHorn]

Oh for sure, but from what I heard, there was a definite swear word before the "no."

Moving on to "Option #2" of Chuck Strong was kind of a Hail Mary in terms of desperation.

There was no "desperation", only Billie Powers greedy desire to create his legacy (to help him overcome the one he created at the law school). Were there options, yes; were their desirable options, perhaps a few, but we will never know because Billie did it all by himself.