U Texas

[AusTxPony]

Saw sports news tonight in Austin. UT will not tackle to ground during fall camp. This is to prevent injuries before season as explained by one of coaches. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Also, today their first practice in pads. FYI.

[Rebel10]

Is Mack Brown regarded as a super duper coach?

[ALEX LIFESON]

Oh noooooo! "Flag football" hits our beloved longhorns?

[ebrooks11]

Is Mack Brown regarded as a super duper coach?

Really? I hate the horns as much as anybody but to say he is not a good coach is stupid.

[Rebel10]

Is Mack Brown regarded as a super duper coach?

Really? I hate the horns as much as anybody but to say he is not a good coach is stupid.

He is regarded as a really good recruiter but not a good coach in case you had not heard. smh.

[Pony147]

He is regarded as a really good recruiter but not a good coach in case you had heard. smh.

I think we have the exact opposite

[ebrooks11]

Is Mack Brown regarded as a super duper coach?

Really? I hate the horns as much as anybody but to say he is not a good coach is stupid.

He is regarded as a really good recruiter but not a good coach in case you had not heard. smh.

In case you can't read he has won over 200 games as a coach and a national championship, turned around a Tulane program ,a UNC program and recharged UT. Again I hate the longhorns but can't let dumb statements go unnoticed.

[couch 'em]

In case you can't read he has won over 200 games as a coach and a national championship, turned around a Tulane program ,a UNC program and recharged UT. Again I hate the longhorns but can't let dumb statements go unnoticed.

Agree or not the commonly held opinion is that his success comes from recruiting and that his teams actually underperform relative to his talent stockpile.

[ebrooks11]

Whose opinion?

[PlanoPony]

Whose opinion?

Anyone that's watched the past 3 seasons of mediocrity (by their standards) compared to their recruiting class rankings, especially the past two years when Oklahoma has stomped them at the Cotton Bowl.

2009 Recruiting class: 3rd
2010 Recruiting class: 2nd
2011 Recruiting class: 5th
2012 Recruiting class: 3rd

[Rebel10]

Ebrooks is acting like an ignorant jerk. Thanks for the backup everyone.

[ebrooks11]

Ebrooks is acting like an ignorant jerk. Thanks for the backup everyone.

Wow. Mack won a national title in 2005. 2002-2004 recruiting rankings were 1,15,and 13. About 8 schools had better ranking on average those years. 02-09 recruiting rankings average around 11. 02-09 ap final ranking averages around 6. Y'all do the math. Are his coaching skills maybe declining? Sure. So did Tom landrys. Was brown not a good coach? Absolutely not. As for the jerk comment, how old are you?

[PlanoPony]

Ebrooks is acting like an ignorant jerk. Thanks for the backup everyone.

Wow. Mack won a national title in 2005. 2002-2004 recruiting rankings were 1,15,and 13. About 8 schools had better ranking on average those years. 02-09 recruiting rankings average around 11. 02-09 ap final ranking averages around 6. Y'all do the math. Are his coaching skills maybe declining? Sure. So did Tom landrys. Was brown not a good coach? Absolutely not. As for the jerk comment, how old are you?

Having really good QB's over the course of those years does a great job of making the head coach look really smart. Good on Mack for recruiting them, but the fact that he's recruited the last two Heisman Trophy winners as defensive backs tends to suggest he's losing it in all aspects of his head coaching position, not just on the field.

[MaroonPony]

It's all relative. You can easily argue that no coach has done less with the kind of talent Mack has recruited the last 10+ years. Look at Saban as a comparison. Mack left at least one MNC on the table when he benched Applewhite for Simms.

[TidePony]

Mack got lucky and had one great player that basically won the national championship, just like Auburn did. It had nothing to do with Mack just like it had nothing to do with Cheezenips. They were both in the right place at the right time. Mack might be a nice guy (or maybe not he does associates with that greedy creep Deloss - I don't care for Texas). Mack is no Saban, no where near, no where close. Roll Tide and Pony Up!