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Fascinating article
Great read. I wonder if either coach alone in the quiet stillness of their own offices has even had this thought about their programs.
Nice
There’s a lot of voices in the peanut gallery that want every 5 star athlete out there, but there’s also the “intangibles”, that we have to trust the coaching staff to grade. And those will never show up on any Rival’s report.
This is an interesting and well written piece
But I think Ketch goes too far when he talks about the coaches changing places insofar as recruiting philosophy. It also seems to me he’s trying to make Mack look good by making Bob Stoops look bad — and while there’s plenty about Mack that is worthy of praise, bringing Oklahoma’s recruiting practices into the argument isn’t one of them.
The Selvin Young story is great. Never heard it, never thought about it, makes a lot of sense. It’s also one instance — and one in which the player picked a school 160 miles away over one 400-plus miles away.
Also, I can do out without the ego: If there’s anyone qualified to serve as a historian of the Mack Brown era at Texas, it’s probably yours truly</em . . .
I tend to agree that it has some flaws
Including the strained parallels with the sooners. Any parallels with the sooners make me feel dirty, except any that involves us beating them silly and them sucking. But overall it presents a pretty unique perspective and observations that I hadn’t thought about, and I’m guessing not many of us have, along with a little bit of new factual info.
Conference titles
Hopefully this year starts a 3 out of 4 year run as conf. champs for the ’Horns (or better), because the Land Thieves can still point to their lead in that category. Other than that, our program is ready to be the best in America.
3 out of 4
for whom? The last conference title Texas won was the Natl Championship year in 05.
haha...
Hopefully this year starts a 3 out of 4 year run as conf. champs for the ’Horns
Emphasis mine
Reading is FUNdamental
by vy til i die on Sep 18, 2009 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Great take on recruiting
I saw the story and didn’t read it initially because the title about the “worm” changing was gross. When you linked it I thought I ougt to actually read it.
I think the concept of recruiting character and team players over self-centered ego maniacs is definitely the right move by Mack Brown. Look at teams like Utah and BYU putting together great teams with less talent than the big schools. When you build a devoted team you get synergies that are greater than the sum of the parts. Texas recruiting is clearly on the right track. Not to be arrogant, but Texas seems to have outgrown the egocentric showboats like Seastrunk, etc. and I’m glad. OU taking guys like Jarboe and Chaisson—enough said.
He was initially recruited and committed to OU.
He then proceeded to do stupid shit during the off-season while at OU and was kicked off the team before the season began. Then Troy picked him up as they tend to do.
by HornPossessed on Sep 14, 2009 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions
like was said last week
Ketchum may thing the change in Texas dates from NSD in 2003 — the real day is November 23, 2007. When Mack decided that internal motivation sometime needs an external kick in the pants. Without that epiphany, we wouldn’t have Muschamp, and “soft” would still be a potential answer to “Texas” in the word association game.
Interesting take
I’m not sure it fits, though. As far as the swap in recruiting philosophies goes, the recruitment that led to Stoops’ MNC wasn’t even mostly his. More than half the 22 starters on offense & defense from that team were Sooners before Stoops was. I’d bet Stoops’ recruiting ideas have had pretty much the same goal all along, it just took a few years for the non-Stoops recruits to cycle out.
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