The Morning After: The Dam Finally Broke

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On Saturday, the Mack Brown dam could no longer be saved. It finally busted on Mack and his lengthy tenure as head coach of the Texas Longhorns.

 

 

 

It started with a small leak. Texas players were getting content. The offense started to rely exclusively on Colt McCoy and his ability to move the football. Targets like Quan Cosby and Jordan Shipley made this the easier choice. Instead of developing the talent he had, he decided to ride those 3 players. He also got a bit cocky. Mack Brown’s recruiting prowess was full-scale. When he offered a player, that player was the best of the best. There was no need to evaluate or reevaluate – just offer who others thought were the best. He let Heisman finalists and winners like Andrew Luck, Johnny Manziel, and Robert Griffin III go by the wayside without a care in the world.

 

 

 

Then the leak turned into a big crack – that was the 2010 season. Mack Brown threw cement on the crack (or a little Mighty Putty) and it looked like the problem would be solved. But water seeped through the cracks. This was ruining the foundation. The recruiting misses of old started to rear their ugly heads. All 3 missed quarterback opportunities started to dominate while the quarterbacks for Texas struggled to find consistency.

 

 

 

Then it got worse, Texas passed on Jameis Winston and Bo Wallace in the 2012 recruiting class and Nick Marshall in the 2013 recruiting class. Two are starters of top 10 teams. Texas instead went with who they thought was the 2nd best option in all of Texas, Case McCoy.

 

 

 

A bigger crack appeared, BYU. Mack Brown made another attempt to fill the cracks and save the dam by firing Manny Diaz and hiring Greg Robinson. However, these two cracks were making the dam even more unstable. Then the predictable happened.

 

 

 

Oklahoma State:

 

 

 

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Now there is no more talk.  The Mack Brown loyalists have no bullets in the chamber. There is nothing left but to the obvious. Relieve Mack Brown of his duties.

 

 

 

Other Week 12 Thoughts. 

 

 

 

– The play of the year was in Auburn on that Hail Mary pass. That’s a play if you saw live, you would of jump out of your chair like I did and scream like a middle school girl seeing Justin Bieber. That pass will overshadow a hell of a comeback by Georgia. I obviously didn’t watch the whole game but that 4th quarter made it the game of the year in my books.

 

 

 

– Baylor is VERY good. I would love to see a game at Floyd Casey Stadium but I doubt I will go see that slaughter.

 

 

 

– Credit USC for fighting back after a dismal start to the season. They get 3 more games this season for traveling to Hawaii to open the season but to be downtrodden like Texas was to begin the season and to get a huge upset win over Stanford shows that with great coaching and talent, you can overcome anything. Now the bigger impact of USC’s upset of #4 Stanford is that might take a big name school off the board to go after the top coaches in college football.

 

 

 

– Okay so there are truly 4 teams competing for a national title. Florida State and Ohio State are not going to have any challengers along the way to an undefeated season. If Baylor survives Stillwater (which I don’t think will happen), then 3 undefeated teams. Alabama is the only hope for the SEC. From what I saw tonight, Bama is going to have their hands full against Auburn and Missouri. I don’t think it will be Alabama in the title game. There could be 6 undefeated teams at the end of the regular season. Yikes.

 

 

 

– DUKE football. I love it. I am a huge fan of Coach K. However, David Cutcliffe is the true coaching genius in Durham, NC.