FWHORN
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This is the part where I write for just about the thousandth time that I am now and forever will be a Mack Brown fan. This is because for people my age (in their 50's) he is the only coach to truly show us a dominant period of Texas football that we could remember and participate in. DKR resigned when I was five so I only know what I read about him and the teams from the '60's. The couple of incredible Akers years were when I was in elementary school and my memories of my college and young adult years were Metcalf right, Metcalf left, Metcalf up the middle, punt. Seriously in my 7 years of college and law school, Texas had three winning seasons and just two bowl appearances. I got to experience 1990 my junior year but that was an aberration not the norm. Even Mackovick's back to back to back conference titles from '94 to '96 (one of which was like a four way tie and only happened because aggy wasn't eligible) were hollow plaudits. Mack Brown led Texas to that elusive National Championship, and yes he rubbed people the wrong way and yes I have heard the stories of his last year and the shenanigans that went on. But I choose to remember him for the NC, the two national title game appearances, the Rose Bowl win over Michigan and Fiesta Bowl win over Ohio State, the nine straight ten or more win seasons, the five top five finishes, and frankly Texas being in the conversation every year for a decade.
I hate that his departures from Texas and now UNC for a second time are going down the way they are. Mack has a bad habit of not knowing when to let go but frankly he won so much because of that habit so you have to take the good with the bad to get his results. We are long past time adding a statue of him at DKR and we need to do that before he passes on from this plain. Any coach who wins a football National Championship deserves a statue, Mack deserves one for a whole lot more than just the NC he helped lead Texas to.
I hate that his departures from Texas and now UNC for a second time are going down the way they are. Mack has a bad habit of not knowing when to let go but frankly he won so much because of that habit so you have to take the good with the bad to get his results. We are long past time adding a statue of him at DKR and we need to do that before he passes on from this plain. Any coach who wins a football National Championship deserves a statue, Mack deserves one for a whole lot more than just the NC he helped lead Texas to.
