Saturday, Mack Brown was coaching his 8-3 longhorns in Waco against the bears in what amounted to a BDF championship game. Conference title and automatic slot in a prestigious BCS bowl game were on the line. Now it's Tuesday night, and the internet is buzzing with reports that Mack (a) has been ordered to resign, or (b) is in Miami recruiting more blue chip talent, or (c) will be replaced by Nick Saban, or (d) all the above.
This goddamned circle jerk is reminding me of the time Texas A&M replaced their all-time leader in football wins with a hotshot who was coaching at Alabama. Football under R.C. Slocum had gone stale, and it was easy to predict the number of Aggie Ws and Ls in August, before the season started. Many of us thought Dennis Franchione, who had succeeded at every stopover in his coaching career, would do the same in College Station. Instead, we got a cluster-fuck that set the program back another five years, and included history-making blowout losses to Oklahoma, and the utter waste of the most promising quarterback A&M had ever recruited to that point.
For purely selfish reasons, I hope that whoever replaces Mack in Austin will do for the longhorns what Coach Fran did for the Aggies.
This goddamned circle jerk is reminding me of the time Texas A&M replaced their all-time leader in football wins with a hotshot who was coaching at Alabama. Football under R.C. Slocum had gone stale, and it was easy to predict the number of Aggie Ws and Ls in August, before the season started. Many of us thought Dennis Franchione, who had succeeded at every stopover in his coaching career, would do the same in College Station. Instead, we got a cluster-fuck that set the program back another five years, and included history-making blowout losses to Oklahoma, and the utter waste of the most promising quarterback A&M had ever recruited to that point.
For purely selfish reasons, I hope that whoever replaces Mack in Austin will do for the longhorns what Coach Fran did for the Aggies.
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