Mack Brown and his UT staff - Y or N?
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:58 pmI know the coaching situation has been written about ad nauseam, but a sincere question for pf.com:
Would you take Mack Brown and his UT staff (the ones that wouldn't stay at UT or get offered bigger gigs) as the successor to JJ and his staff?
Yes or No.
Pros- established name recognition and reputation, definitely has Texas ties to high-level HS coaches, can put a high-level staff together, staff can recruit this state, coached on the national stage with huge expectations, won BCS title, and this may be his coaching low point so we could get him on the (somewhat) cheap end.
Cons- even with great recruiting, his teams seem to underacheive; unproven whether he can recruit to a non-destination school like SMU; not sure whether he can get the Cedric Benson/VY-type players into SMU and keep them eligible, not a disciplinarian, he is in his 60's and may have little gas left in the tank (although LB seems to be doing just fine).
Ultimately, I think it is a chance that a school like ours might have to take. I have other favorites, younger guys with something to prove like Morris (Clemson) and Smart (Bama) and Monty at Baylor - but this is the type of hire that makes noise in the CFB world. It is a risk, because you don't know that he can replicate his success form a place like UT - but that could be said of most top coaches from top 25 schools. The alternative is to get a guy that has won at a lower level - like a coach from the MAC or C-USA or even FCS.
Mack might end up being just like the football version of LB - he could come in with the right staff of younger recruiters, let them loose on Texas and other states with top prospects, use his name recognition to seal the deal, bump up our recruiting into the top 25 - and then see what happens!
Would you take Mack Brown and his UT staff (the ones that wouldn't stay at UT or get offered bigger gigs) as the successor to JJ and his staff?
Yes or No.
Pros- established name recognition and reputation, definitely has Texas ties to high-level HS coaches, can put a high-level staff together, staff can recruit this state, coached on the national stage with huge expectations, won BCS title, and this may be his coaching low point so we could get him on the (somewhat) cheap end.
Cons- even with great recruiting, his teams seem to underacheive; unproven whether he can recruit to a non-destination school like SMU; not sure whether he can get the Cedric Benson/VY-type players into SMU and keep them eligible, not a disciplinarian, he is in his 60's and may have little gas left in the tank (although LB seems to be doing just fine).
Ultimately, I think it is a chance that a school like ours might have to take. I have other favorites, younger guys with something to prove like Morris (Clemson) and Smart (Bama) and Monty at Baylor - but this is the type of hire that makes noise in the CFB world. It is a risk, because you don't know that he can replicate his success form a place like UT - but that could be said of most top coaches from top 25 schools. The alternative is to get a guy that has won at a lower level - like a coach from the MAC or C-USA or even FCS.
Mack might end up being just like the football version of LB - he could come in with the right staff of younger recruiters, let them loose on Texas and other states with top prospects, use his name recognition to seal the deal, bump up our recruiting into the top 25 - and then see what happens!