Mack Brown

[ponyfan08]

Let the guy take a year off, get rid of Mr. Macadamia and bring Mack in. At least he recruits.
We should be able to compete in this crappy conference.

[Bergermeister]

Get rid of Mr. Macadamia and bring Mack in

Yeah, that's the answer.

[mrydel]

I found it amusing this morning hearing sports commentators saying that Mack had been so successful at recruiting that he started making phone calls rather than going to visit high schools and because tgat at was diluting the advantage in recruiting he had in the past.

[Stallion]

really its kind of funny but Mack was a great "Recruiter" but starting about 2008 the Texas staff failed in "evaluation". The opposite of June's problem. Its really not that easy when you are asked to analyze 500 Texas prospects who have only finished Junior year of football and need to get the offers out 12-15 months in advance of signing date. And at Texas if you sign a 5 star QB like Garrett Gilbert but you miss on lower ranked Manziel, Winston and Griffin you are going to get second guessed even though it was perfectly logical at the time and everybody aqpproved. Longer projection period these days-perhaps as much as a year earlier than when Mack "invented" early recruiting in Texas. There was awhile there when Mack was getting commitments from 85% of the kids he offered-an unheard of ratio. Maybe early recruiting created the Mack Brown Mystic but also killed him

[Grant Carter]

really its kind of funny but Mack was a great "Recruiter" but starting about 2008 the Texas staff failed in "evaluation". The opposite of June's problem. Its really not that easy when you are asked to analyze 500 Texas prospects who have only finished Junior year of football and need to get the offers out 12-15 months in advance of signing date. And at Texas if you sign a 5 star QB like Garrett Gilbert but you miss on lower ranked Manziel, Winston and Griffin you are going to get second guessed even though it was perfectly logical at the time and everybody aqpproved. Longer projection period these days-perhaps as much as a year earlier than when Mack "invented" early recruiting in Texas. There was awhile there when Mack was getting commitments from 85% of the kids he offered-an unheard of ratio. Maybe early recruiting created the Mack Brown Mystic but also killed him

I like your last point. They got themselves committed to kids very early and made promises like they would not recruit anyone else at that position. Then, if someone else emerged their senior year or the kid who committed to them faltered, they were stuck because they felt like they had to honor the promise/offer.

[papaw1]

It is time for Ol' Mackie to get away from football. They had the most underachieving group of players around. If SMU and other schools had the recruiting class of Ol' Mackie, they would have a wonderful team,.

[Rayburn]

Mack had trouble figuring his QBs as far back as the Applewhite-versus-Simms days. Applewhite was clearly the choice, but Mack feared Chris would transfer out and make him look foolish elsewhere. He and his staff almost coached Vince Young out of football. He simply gave up on Garrett Gilbert (thank God).

Mack Brown is a nice guy and a good (not great IMO) coach, but he screwed up some things at UT and shortened his time there.

[papaw1]

Did Simm's Dad's big donation to UT have anything to do with his son's place on the depth chart?

[lwjr]

ESPN reporting, sources state if Art Briles was offered UT job he would take it.
Take it for what it is worth.


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[PonySnob]

Interesting that both Drew Brees and Nick Foles played high school football less than 10 miles from the UT campus and neither one even got a look from UT.