Say what you want about Mackovic, but he won three straight conference championships 94-96 before being fired in 97. That's one more conference championship than Mack won in 16 years.
The effort and lack of focus tonight by Baylor smells like U of H against USM 2 years ago. Baylor fans, you may be saying goodbye to Art Briles very soon.
OK, here's a toast to SWC championships (I won't discount beating Nebraska for the first Big 12 title though) when the whole conference was down. Way more impressive than regularly competing for a national championship and actually winning one. Gimme a break. I would love to hire a young Mack Brown with competent coordinators.
Pretty sure he never appeared in two national championship games (or was a Gideon INT away from a 3rd) much less win one.
http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrec...y_K8GY9AlBGPZB4?colleges=show#college_choices Tony Brown will announce his commitment tomorrow I believe. It's down to Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Texas, and USC. Can't imagine people around him are telling him to choose Texas. He wants to enroll in the spring so he doesn't have till Feb to make a choice like everyone else. Would be shocked as hell to see him commit to a team with no coach and when the guy who recruited him will likely be fired. Oh well. At least there is no chance for him to go to A&M or OU. I would bet my money on LSU. It's a good program with a good coach. He's from Beaumont so it's only a 4 hour or so drive there. Then again, what's going to happen when Texas offers Les Miles 10 million dollars? EDIT: Brown's sister runs track for LSU. Slam dunk. Dude isn't coming here. What little hope is crushed.
when youre scraping the bottom of the barrel in the state of texas for recruits like briles was doing, you take all the talent you can get, character or not. he would be able to pick and choose if he were at UT. i think he would have a discplined team screw gideon and screw crabtree
What would UT fans' response be to Patterson introducing O'Leary as the next Longhorn HC ? EXCITED, ELATED, or CAUTIOUSLY ECSTATIC?
Listened too the Rose Bowl at work on ESPN radio, they said Texas is gaging any Mark Dantonio (Texas native) interest in the job.
Baylor isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel for talent right now. Over the last 3-4 seasons, Baylor has sent more notable players to the NFL than Texas has. Even talented teams are often heavily penalized...and that's been one of Briles' shortcomings for a long time now. Defense looked completely unprepared and outcoached. I have no idea if that's because of distraction. Read a tweet that Bob Simpson, a big BU donor, said that Art told him last night after the game that he was staying at BU. Probably because he knew he wouldn't be offered the UT job after that game
Baylor has had top 25ish classes for a few years now and is set to have the best recruiting class in its history coming in. Excited about players like Davion Hall and KD Cannon
BU (or at least Dixon) seems to have a problem with stupid penalties like personal fouls, but committing lots of penalties in general is not a bad thing. Different studies have either shown no correlation or actually a positive correlation between penalties and wins (as an example, Baltimore and SF were both near the top of the NFL last year). The theory is that there's generally a benefit to "cheating" (grabbing, holding, etc) and if you're being called for lots of penalties, it also probably means you're getting away with lots of penalties since not everything gets called. I don't know where the article is anymore, but it was a pretty fascinating read.
I can't link to Twitter on my iPad..but Chip is reporting Texas wants to interview Briles this week...and that Briles is telling Baylor they have nothing to worry about. If Texas wants Briles, he will be Austin bound. It's the one job I think he'd jump ship for. If Texas passes over Briles this time, then my guess is Briles retires at Baylor ultimately.
Mostly on defense. It was the same undisciplined crap we saw from the defense in some other games. We need to upgrade the defensive coordinator.
i interpreted disciplined in the wrong context in this situation. i was thinking more along the lines of character discipline, not on-field discipline. in the state of Texas as a big program in a major conference, i consider him scraping the bottom of the barrel. i dont know know where yall are getting top 20ish classes but on rivals they werent ranked that high, last year being the highest. thats due to the recent success the program is having because of briles. of course im just talking about the players recruited in tx. briles never had the luxury of just picking fish in barrel like other schools in this state, all while putting a nationwide notable product on the field.
