Texas Coaching Rumors

Wow an incredibly witty post...I guess as you have no victory parades or anything to go to to celebrate the achievements of history's greatest 2 loss team, you had time to forumlate that gem. Keep up the good work.

 

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So far it's been posted on just about every Longhorn and Sooner board I visit.

 

Wow. A texas fan STILL talking smack? Last I heard Mack was still their coach....so keep up the good work in your mediocre bowl games!

 

Wow. An Oklahoma fan STILL talking smack? Last I heard the greatest team in NCAA history was riding a 2 game losing streak and took home zero titles this year..so keep up the good work.

 

Were you even alive the last time Texas won a championship?

 

No, my first football memory is this:

 

I don't like to admit it, but I'd trade every current Longhorn player and coach for their Sooner' counterpart. At least when that team is getting their asses kicked they sack up and keep fighting.

It is awefully hard to wear my Longhorn football cap with Mack Brown as head coach. I see little to be proud of in work ethic, focus or heart. I rather be less talented but play with those things than what we currently have, there series of excuses, blaming and scapegoating afterward don't help either.

 

Jason White for Vince Young would be a sweet deal.

Your kidding right?

 

I wasn't this way until this week. When I heard Mack politicked to keep Davis and give him a raise I was ready to fire both men on the spot. I want mack out before next season at this point because to me he just put the loyalty of his friend over the wellbeing of the thousands of UT fans, players and alums who support this outstanding university and football program. I could run a better offense than Greg Davis, and I have never played a down of high school football in my life. That isn't a good thing.

Then I get word instead of 4 coaches getting fired, like they should, only reese is the fall guy. Despicable. And to make matters worse there is strong speculation Mack will just promote Akina to DC instead of finding the best possible candidate. Even worse.

At this point, I'm solely focused on enjoying watching UT's men's and women's basketball teams make a run at another final four appearance. Rick Barnes and Jody Conradt are two of the best coaches in their respective professions, and I'm confident in UT's chances come March with them at the helm. I wanted to be able to say the same thing about Mack but I can't. I tried defending him because he is such a nice guy. But I can't. I was almost at my breaking point after losses to Arkansas and Oklahoma, but it wasn't until last Tuesday and this week that the straw is broken and I'm not going back.

My friend and I watched the Holiday Bowl together and him and his family are diehard UT supporters like myself. He literally told me he was sick of watching that game early in the 3rd quarter. And I agreed. No fight, no disagreement, no argument. Nothing. And I went home wondering how Greg Davis and Carl Reese have jobs as college football coaches.

I even have decided to have no expectations of grandeur next season once I heard Davis was staying on. Sure it would be great if by chance a miracle happened and UT went 12-0, or 11-1. But it won't happen, not with Mack Brown and Greg Davis leading this program. I will never stop watching and supporting UT football as long as I'm alive as I bleed orange through and through. But UT fans like myself deserve better than what Mack Brown has given us.

Some of you may think that viewpoint is arrogant and say look how few teams make BCS bowls, or go to or win national championships, but this isn't an average school or an average program. This is the University of Texas at Austin, one of the premier athletic and academic schools in the land, in a state that lives, eats and breathes football. 10-3 might be ok at a school like Washington State but it's only ok at Texas if the fans and supporters can see improvement towards competiting for a national title. Texas is not showing improvement, whatsoever, and that is where the problem lies. The same problems that were evident 5 years ago are still there and worse now.

Mack Brown made his bed when he put a dagger in UT fans hearts by choosing Greg Davis over the well being of the program this week. I appreciate him for putting UT on a better track to achieve the ultimate goal of winning a national title, but it's time for a better coach to come in here and finish the job. UT players and fans, expect and deserve that much. And while I respect him for restoring pride in UT football, and the making the UT-OU game be meaningful again on a national scale like it should be, he stuck a dagger in this fan's heart this week. And for that I say goodbye, and good riddance Mack.

 

Well put DV. UT has I think the #2 ranked overall Athletic Program, is in a hotbed of football prospects and doesn't have too many academic barriors to getting them (like all major state schools as well as USC), is a great city/diverse University, and has a great football tradition. There is no reason they should not be a top 5 program and have a national championship caliber team (not necc winning, but being right there) every 2-3 years.

Basically, it has taken incredible ineptness in the ADs office to produce as mediocre football teams at the University of Texas the last 20 years.

If you were a 5 star Texas high school football player with a legitimate shot at the pros and wanting to play for national championships would you go to go play for Mack Brown and staff instead of Saban (just east), Stoops (just north), Carroll or Coker? And except for Norman, I think you could have plenty of fun and be around plenty of hot women in those other places too.

I still will watch em and will root for the players, but I am flat disguisted with everyone above who is associated with UT football (coaches, AD office).

I meant the coaches as a collective or the players as a collective--though I would hard pressed to find any UT football coach I pick over their OU counterpart.

 

Yep. Agreed, DV.