I think what my friend Peter is trying to say here is that love is blind...

PB, I like the dating analogy but there's a reason the divorce rate in this country is over 50% and good college coaches get fired with winning percentages well above 700 - in America, we (especially UT fans) wholeheartedly believe that  we are entitled to liberty, justice and the right to ask what the fuck have you done for me lately.

As much as I'd like to believe Longhorns fans wil remember what Mack has accomplished in his tenure on the 40 acres, it will not surprise me in the least to hear about a "firemackbrown" web site being erected less than two seconds after Mack Brown's next loss.

Jim Tressel won a Natty C a few years back and those Bucknuts were calling for his head after our game with them last September. Even Bob Stoops wasn't immune from the Sooners' wrath this season. Most ironic of all, there were OU fans claiming that Bob Stoops couldn't win the "big game" after losing consecutive BCS National Championships as if teams get there every day.

Individuals are smart and rational, but people are dumb. I hope you post that commentary again after Mack loses a couple of games. Chances are good this message board will be lit up like Christmas Tree and we'll all be hanging Mack in effigy once again (present company included).

 

It's easy to say this now, as we bask in ultimate success, but one of the reasons I wanted to get it down on paper was precisely so I could point us back to it when the going gets rough.

Overall, from the beginnings of this blog, Andrew and I have resisted calling for Mack's head. The closest we got was saying that "discussion of whether or not to fire Mack Brown was fair." Still, we emphasized that we were proud of the program, we continued to have high success, and that firing Mack Brown would be too much. We suggested, alternatively, that he needed to look closely at Greg Davis if the offense continued to die in big games. At this point, even that's off the table.

There's little to complain about now, but even when the going gets rough, I hope we'll all remember how good we have it.

Easier said than done, eh?

I would still rather have GD replaced.  He's a horrible QB coach and I've noticed that as OC he likes the draw a tad bit too much.  

Vince (as well as Major) both had raw talent that turned them into game winners.  However, look at Chris Simms.  Chris never received proper coaching at the collegiate level.  He seems to be doing okay in the NFL, but part of me will always hate him for that Big 12 championship game against Colorado.  

I'm worried that our new starting QB, whether Snead or McCoy, is going to send us into another Simms era because of Greg Davis' inability to coach the position.

Vince became a successful passer only after Greg Davis stopped tinkering with his mechanics.

Wasn't there a rumor that Major locked Greg Davis in the bathroom at half time during one game?  I don't know if it's true or not, but it makes for great lore.

Who is more consistent than Mack Brown?

Fact is, no other coach the last ten years has put up numbers in the win column like Mack. While Lloyd Carr and Larry Coker are busy firing assistants, Mack is getting a pay raise. Even genius coaches like Stoops and Tressel stumble from time to time.

IMO, the popularity he's injected in to football is paying dividends for the entire AD.

Take it from someone who was on the 40 when Mackovic was fired. Nothing personal against Mack II, but he was a terrible fit for Texas and his teams were wildly unpredictable. He just wasn't, you know, Mack.

I'll give Mackovic credit for the talent he brought in, because James Brown and Ricky were more important to the image of UT than any other players from the last 20 years. They made it "cool" for kids from the inner city to play at UT. Until then Austin was pretty much a white man's country club. But everything from his wine collection to his treatment of alumni and HS coaches made him a bad fit. His break down at Arizona wasn't just an aberration. His weeping on television was a collection of pent up frustration from years of mediocre results and the realization that his players don't like or respect him.  

Mack is the complete opposite. Everybody is his friend or wants to be. He's like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, walking around tipping everyone and making eyes light up with his mere presence. Mack can't get enough of the handshaking, back slapping and hugs. His social IQ is off the charts. He connects with kids and alumni like no other coach in D1 football. The championship and wins are really just gravy.

I say give him another million. The t-shirt sales alone should pay for it.

Very well put.  

As fans we sometimes go with the collective thought that usually has a little too much emotion and not enough logic.

I think Coach Brown's Charisma is in his calm approach.  By contrast Coach Carroll's is in his enthusiasm.
Both fit for their respective programs.

I can understand how the fans constantly called for his and Coach Davis' head.  I know how I felt having to put up with the likes of Larry Smith, Ted Tolner and Paul Hackett, as a Jets fan you can imagine my disgust when Hackett was the Jets OC, talk about insult to injury.

UT, like SC has a lot to be thankful for. We've got coaches that are a good fit for our respective programs. We have it better than most. I can't speak for aTm, but I can see how bad it could be by looking across town at ucla. We've both been there before and I hope we don't see it again for very long time.