Fixin it with Mack Brown

[Lord Vader]

This is via Orangebloods.com user Dallashorn2 (its just a excerpt, not his entire post, and its sourced and credited. So theres that.)

Fixin It with Mack Brown (He had year four but insinuated its like this since 2011, and hes right)

- Mack tells everyone this is the year we're about to be real good again

- Fall Camp goes well

- Team ranked in top 15

- Horns win season opener

- Team suffers embarrassing nationally televised loss-

- Horns fall out of top 25

- Expectations for the year are now lowered

- Mack vows to fix things

- Mack makes some changes

- QB gets benched or injured

- Team beats lower level conference opponents

- Mack tells everyone things are getting fixed

- Big wigs are proud of team and convinced we are improving

- Horns move up in the receiving votes category

- Team finishes with one more loss and fringe top 25

- Team is invited to second tier bowl against team not as talented as they are

- Horns win bowl game

- Mack excited for spring and believes things are getting fixed

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The guy is spot on.

 

[seahawkhorn]

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[PDX Horn]

Love or hate Chip Brown he had the post of the year and why Mack must go win or lose tomorrow. Just copy and pasted and hope that is OK (nothing we all already didn't know anyway just a recap). Required reading for anyone who still supports Mack Brown as HC:

But, at some point, you have to step back and look at the entire body of work of Mack Brown and what LED to the four years of mediocrity in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013:

* He oversaw the disaster recruiting classes of 2008 and 2009 that whiffed dramatically at QB, OL and LB.

* He waited until 2013 to hire a player personnel director and build a football office in par with other top programs such as Stanford (which hired that position in 2007 under Jim Harbaugh) and Alabama (which hired that position in 2009 under Nick Saban). Mack failed to take advantage of this position even though he was starting to miss badly in recruiting almost immediately after his 2005 national title (UT hasn't had an OL drafted by the NFL in 7 rounds since 2008 (and that player, Tony Hills, was recruited in 2003).

* He burned the program to the ground in 2010 by allowing his "Alabama hangover" to alienate 1) his assistants; and 2) his players, who quit on him ... and then fired assistants and had one of his most trusted assistants (Duane Akina) leave voluntarily before coming back.

* He hired Manny Diaz and then failed to fire him after the worst statistical defense in school history (2012), when he knew this was a critical season for his own positioning with the fan base and 19 starters back from a 9-win team.

* Then Mack decided to retain Diaz despite, I'm told, having doubts about Diaz after spring football and instead hired Greg Robinson as an insurance policy football analyst.

* His program is 15-11 at home the past four years after Texas lost only 9 games from 1997-2009 (13 years).

* His program has lost its last eight games (0-8) at home vs opponents ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, dating to 2008.

* His program had five recruits de-commit last year (Kyle Hicks, Durham Smythe, Ricky Seals-Jones, Daeshon Hall and A'Shawn Robinson)

* Mack, who has 2 conference titles in 30 years as a head coach, is 6-9 vs Oklahoma's Bob Stoops, who has 8 conference titles in 15 years as a head coach (all won in the same conference as Mack Brown).

If you're going to evaluate Mack Brown, evaluate him critically on those points and praise him for all the success he had through 2009 and for all the money he's brought in.

But you also have to look at his team and staff going forward and determine if he's built a program that can win next year - or if it would simply be more negativity and questioning surrounding his week-to-week relationship with the UT fan base.

To allow a hollow "share of a Big 12 title" in 2013 to mask all the other Mack Brown Factors that have held the program down the past four years would be negligent.

 

[hornfanaustin]

Yeah, Chip nailed it. Even a win tomorrow and a share of the Big 12 title doesn't mask all of the issues with the football program, especially going into next season. Bringing Mack back next year just prolongs the rebuilding process.

 

[Lord Vader]

True, but then you have to ask, again, do the ringmasters care?

 

[GetHooked]

I now live in a world where the coach of my beloved school is an incompetent jackass.

This is compounded by living in a world where the president of my beloved country is also an incompetent jackass.

Tough to get excited these days.

 

[beevomav]

You just forgot one thing JW...

 

[Lord Vader]

Lol!