Thoughts

[Crystal Blue Caucasian]

Not likely that we win out, but I wouldn't mind if Mack didn't put thoughts in my head rooting against it.

 

[palmettohorn]

Lets look at this from a realistic point of view. We are playing great, but we still have Case McCoy as our starting QB and we still have to play OKState, Tech and Baylor. We're playing better, but we still have a huge task ahead of us if we want to win out. It's very hard to see that happening.

This.

Thoughts of Case side-arming one-footed passes into a brisk November wind (especially in Morgantown) four Saturdays in a row is less than encouraging.

 

[c.c.rider]

is beating DKR's win record the real reason he wants to stay?

 

[Hoekem]

I'm glad things are improving and maybe it's because the players hear all the chatter about him leaving and they are playing their hearts out for him but, I think the hiring of Robinson swung the gate and the players have been coached up lately.

I do not want him anywhere near the football field w/o an invite from Saban.

 

[Fuddy]

is beating DKR's win record the real reason he wants to stay?

I think the real reason he wants to stay is really 5 million + reasons

 

[LonghornDog]

No thanks!!

 

[TheContractor]

is beating DKR's win record the real reason he wants to stay?

I do think that is one of his goals so he can get his name next to DKR on the stadium.

$5,400,000 would make me not leave.

Even if we end up 9-3 he will not go quietly into the night.

 

[Lord Vader]

We could still finish 7-5/8-4. Yes, Texas is on a hot streak, but you must consider the last time we faced a team with slightly above average QB play we lost (BYU/Ole Miss). The luck streak runs out after this weekend.

 

[Randolph Duke]

is beating DKR's win record the real reason he wants to stay?

Darrell retired at 52. Just think how many wins he would have had if he had continued to coach and "adjusted" to the new environment. Darrell did what he did and when the game changed not to his liking, he walked away. That is a far different legacy than someone who would hang on after the game has passed him by to achieve personal glory by exceeding Darrell's win total.

If Mack Brown stayed and exceeded Darrell's win record and then tried to claim he was the greatest coach ever at UT, he would get laughed out of Austin. Darrell wasn't just a win record. He was a class act.

Although others say may will stay kicking and screaming until he is forced out because he is focused on how much money he can stuff in his pockets, I disagree. I did a piece for the site a week of so ago and linked to Mack's contract as well as Saban's, Stoops', Urban's and those of a few other coaches. Every other big time college coach runs 30, 40, 50 or more pages and details his free private jet time, his country club memberships and other perks. Mack's is a 9 page document. The shortest of any major coach. He doesn't ask the university to pay his country club membership, to jet him around the world, free apparel, or any of the other diva-esque perks other coaches get. If Mack was obsessed with how much money he could stuff in his pockets, he has been doing a great job of hiding it so far. He has been paid a lot, that is for sure, but he is the only coach with 9 10+ wins in the BCS era for starters. He has done some good things for the program.

I think Mack goes willingly, just because his legacy will be at stake. If he makes it ugly, he will never be welcomed on campus again and he will lose out on a lot of post coaching opportunities (he is only 62). As it was, Darrell was pretty much banished from the program for2 20 years after he left. It was Mack who brought him back into the program. His legacy is an incredibly valuable asset. The alumni want him out. He gains nothing by making his exit ugly, but he loses millions by doing so. My guess is he announces the week before the Baylor game. Pump the team up for a great effort to knock them down and notch another great win for the program and then the bowl game is the big "good-bye." The new coach is announced either a couple days before or a couple days after the MNC game (depending on if we want to grab headlines from the run-up to that game). If its Saban and Bama is in the MNC, its leaked right before the game.