Mack's Extension a $23 million mistake?!!!

This guys reasoning is ridiculous. Especially this part, "...More than one-third of Texas’ $96 million in football revenue is generated from ticket sales. Those sales might already drop off next season thanks to the Longhorn Network, which will make it easier for fans to watch games from their living rooms, and they could be hurt even more if Brown fails to get the Longhorns back to their winning ways...."

The team will get turned around, and it is completely obvious that he has no idea how many people can actually watch LHN. I couldn't help but laugh.

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Pretty sure

that guy didn’t read the statements from the administration about why the Longhorns opted to give Mack this extension. It was like the writer decided the angle he wanted to take before he figured out how he would support it and then instead of abandoning a poor idea, he had to come up with some lame arguments.

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by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Jan 27, 2012 1:42 PM CST reply actions

Responsible Journalism...

forgot to NOT do that.

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by KWashburn on Jan 27, 2012 1:58 PM CST up reply actions

It seems this was 100% about recruiting

I don’t think anyone, including Mack, thinks he’ll still be coaching on the 40 Acres in 2020.

But this is an effective way to beat down negative recruiting.

Here’s the flip side, unfortunately: Our beloved defensive coordinator will not be the head coach at Texas. If he stays till the end of the 2013 season I’ll consider us lucky, blessed, and championship-caliber.

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by windycityhorn on Jan 27, 2012 5:48 PM CST up reply actions

That would be so awesome

To have a fellow Hispanic coaching my Longhorns. Dare to dream!

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by TexasGarcia37 on Jan 27, 2012 6:31 PM CST up reply actions

I doubt

That we would have made Manny our HC immediately. Our next HC will be proven somewhere, it could still be Manny especially if Mack stays till 2020. And when Manny leaves we will get the next best thing, no worries no big drop off. Teams may start to figure him out by the end of 2012/2013 also kind of like Muschamp. So its not that big of a deal.

However this is a bad idea if Mack can’t get us to a BCS bowl( Or at the very least 10 wins)next season

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by Mclovin1035 on Jan 27, 2012 10:26 PM CST up reply actions

I haven’t read the contract, but

Isn’t there a buyout clause that would actually make it cheaper should the admin decide to part ways?

by SDG on Jan 27, 2012 4:49 PM CST reply actions

Here's ya go

Brown, who is paid $5.2 million a year, won’t get any more money out of the new deal, but he will continue getting annual raises of $100,000 per his current contract. The deal includes a $3.5 million buyout that drops every year he stays with Texas.

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by windycityhorn on Jan 27, 2012 5:39 PM CST up reply actions

So the University

creates a layer of protection and this guy says it’s a mistake? What a joke. Forbes should stay out of sports.

Thanks WCH!

by SDG on Jan 27, 2012 6:59 PM CST up reply actions

We Will Tear Up the Contract when Mack wins the MNC anyway

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by realmccoy on Jan 30, 2012 8:58 AM CST up reply actions

Yep, the writer totally doesn't have a clue about the LHN

Even up in South Dakota I could catch more games than I was able to this year in Austin unless I physically went to the game.

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by Darklust on Jan 28, 2012 7:50 AM CST reply actions

I'm in the minority, I realize...

And I’ve said this in earlier posts…but you can’t convince me that Mack’s extension was necessary. It’s easy to come on these boards after the fact and try to circle the wagons around Dodds and the BOR but I would challenge anyone to produce statements from virtually anywhere that demonstrate that UT was getting killed on the recruiting trail with rumors of Mack’s imminent departure. Those rumors, if they existed, existed because of the HCIC appointment (which I struggled with at the time); an unrealistic extension of a contract that wasn’t going to expire for another 4 years, is a transparent device that any road warrior worth his paycheck could shoot holes in in every living room across the state. The issue was never UT’s commitment to Mack, it was always Mack’s commitment to continue coaching…the extension device doesn’t solve that.

Still, I’m a huge fan of what this team has managed to do. I just respectfully disagree that this was necessary. Or desirable.

by utexas87 on Jan 29, 2012 5:32 PM CST reply actions

HCIW (didn't mean to post yet)

Also, I guess there could still be internal battles going on over the future of the program and the win/loss column. If so, at a “typical” school, this extension would silence those who might be pressuring the administration to replace Mack and buy out the remainder of his contract (esp if the program doesn’t return to prominence in the near future. But we all know that UT isn’t typical so, again, not sure what the business case for this extension was…I’m almost positive it isn’t the stability of the program argument that the administration said it was.

by utexas87 on Jan 29, 2012 6:12 PM CST up reply actions