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John Mackovich

I haven't been in Texas for very long.  I moved to Austin in the summer of 2003 and never payed a tremendous amount of attention to Texas football until my freshman year at UT in 2005.

That being said, I don't know much about Texas football before 2003.  I hear plenty about Chris Simms, Major Applewhite, and Ricky Williams, but I guess what I'm most interested about is the post-DKR, pre-Mack Brown years of Texas football.  I very rarely hear anything about this 'era,' besides vague references to empty stands in '98 by Mack and a loss to Rice in '94 by my friends at Rice.

Is there much to be said about these years?  Was the excitement and interest for Texas football anything like it is now?  Is it as much of a 'dark age' as I am perceiving it to be?  I titled the diary John Mackovich (I don't know if I spelled that correctly) because he is one of the few things I can identify by name about these years.  What was he like as a coach?  How was the program under him?  Anybody care to enlighten a trasnplant?

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