For all the angst on the coaching search.....

[PTA]

Your first instincts about Mack were exactly right. He is a great self promoter and a terrible football coach. His only MNC was won by VY in spite of Mack, not because of him. Are you really saying that you would hire Mack again if you knew there would inly be one MNC and two conference championships in the next 16 years while OU was winning one MNC an 8 conference championships while delivering 4 epic beat downs of UT???? If your answer is yes, you have been in the MBTF spin cycle wayyy too long. The last thing UT needs is another Mack Brown type hire.

Hindsight being 20/20...I would have hired Mack only if he agreed to step down following Vince and the MNC. Recruiting evaluation (again hindsight) started dying bad after that.

 

[coolhorn]

I'd actually prefer we get a coach who makes his name as UT's head coach. Sure, I want an experienced head coach like everybody else, but even the sainted "he that shall not be named" hadn't really made that much of a name for himself until he got down to bayou country. As someone above mentioned, the name Darrell Royal didn't exactly move the needle until he'd been in Austin two or three years. I look at the track record of a Mora, or a Strong, and I get the idea that either would do just fine on the forty acres and be a big improvement over the last head coach.