We appreciate what he did, but it is just time for a change. I feel the same way about Mac as I do Kubiak, they are great guys and did a lot for their teams - they just haven't performed as of late. Time to give someone else a crack at it. If Mac Brown could have recruited a QB after Colt, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
If we could get Urban Meyer, he would be the one I would want. He is the one guy that is arguably as good as Saban. When he was at Florida their program was just as good as Alabama's year in and year out if not better.
There's a lot of talk that he's frustrated with the Big10 and the lack of respect for the conference (potentially going 25-0 and no shot at a title game), though two mitigating factors are the playoff system which solves that (and gives him an easy route to the playoffs) and I'm not sure how much better the new Big12 really is. I guess it depends in part on if he feels OSU has a ceiling with more and more talent moving south and making it harder to recruit elite talent and depth (see the last 2 OSU national title games). OSU will be easy to make the playoffs, but will it be too difficult to win in the playoffs there? We know loyalty and all that is not a big thing for him, so seeing him jump ship would not be too much of a surprise. I'd be happy with any number of possibilities, but Meyer would be the quickest and most certain route to becoming good fast. I'd be thrilled with: Meyer, Briles, Malzahn, Shaw, Gruden, either Harbaugh, etc. There's a pretty long list of coaches out there that have been mentioned - not entirely sure what's a real possibility and what's not at this point.
Didn't his contract go to 2020? So he walked away from 30 million dollars? Surely there was a behind the scenes settlement.
The Mack Brown era officially ended last night, but it was inevitable when OU hired Bob Stoops. The Bob Stoops era will end too....thanks to Kevin Sumlin, Mike Gundy, and Art Briles.
With that contract he is actually going to be serving as an adviser to the UT president Bill Powers until 2020 (atleast). He wont be making that 30 mil, but i read his salary will be 500K with that position.
Can't imagine Urban Meyer walking away from OSU. He has a good thing going there, and it's his home state, about three and a half hours from where he grew up. But then again, he has a history of walking away from programs. I guess I just kind of always figured this was his final job, and he was there to stay.
Mack won a NC and appeared in another right smack dab in the middle of the Stoops era. I see your point, but Stoops OWNS Mike Gundy. Even OSU fans admit that. And Sumlin....I love the guy, but the jury is still out on him. Last year was special, but he was 0-4 against ranked teams this year. And he's losing Manziel.
The only thing more silly than Saban-pining on the Texas end is the "cautiously now able to exhale" form of hedged gloating by the roll tide rollers. The man is a mercenary who doesn't really give a **** about whether or not you bleed crimson tide, something that fawning lickspittles like the Paul Finebaums of the universe don't really appreciate and don't want to. What he says publicly, or even privately, is to placate the masses - are part of the game. He knows that in the game words are wind, more or less. And wind is pretty much free. The wishful anthropomorphizing by the Tide faithful of an adolescent, dated "Be true to your school!" fantasy era is a relic of the NCAA's past. It's a business, you haven't transcended that and you won't.
Let's not forget that one of Stoops' loses in the NC game was in a year where he lost to Mack and only got the nod bc they were 1 spot ahead of Texas in the BCS Ranking. The 3 way tie from hell rule has since been changed to match the rules by the not r****ded conferences.
The rule is actually not bad. It just didn't work out in that situation. The new rule has just as many problems and can lead to terrible results too. The real problem is that there is no good way to break a tie like that. Anything that relies on BCS standings is flawed because it relies on non-conference results to decide conference standings.
