Mack Brown stepping down (1 Viewer)

[bentley]

Local newspaper reporting that Strong has interviewed and that sources close to Briles confirmed that he would be interested in the job and is open to talking after the Fiesta Bowl today.

 

[Premier]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

 

[timschochet]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

I would be very surprised at this point (and of course, tremendously disappointed), if he left.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

PLAYOFFS!?!?!?

 

[bentley]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

Chip Brown looks to be the leader on this story. Which means it's probably a bunch of bull####.

 

[RUSF18]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

Chip Brown looks to be the leader on this story. Which means it's probably a bunch of bull####.

Brown was the leader on both Dodds stepping down as AD and Mack stepping down as HC.

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

Saban tanking the Sugar Bowl to make it easier to exit

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Briles withdraws his name. Who's left?

 

[General Malaise]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

Chip Brown looks to be the leader on this story. Which means it's probably a bunch of bull####.

Brown was the leader on both Dodds stepping down as AD and Mack stepping down as HC.

Oh, good leaping lord. People saw that coming the very second BYU started pulverizing their defense. Not exactly Pulitzer reporting here.

 

[Effin A]

Briles withdraws his name. Who's left?

Charlie Strong, Jim Mora, and James Franklin from what I can filter through. Alot of our base here still thinks Fisher is a possibility, but I call BS on that.

 

[General Malaise]

Did Briles remove his name or did Texas cool off after UCF throttled them?

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Briles withdraws his name. Who's left?

Charlie Strong, Jim Mora, and James Franklin from what I can filter through. Alot of our base here still thinks Fisher is a possibility, but I call BS on that.

Did Briles remove his name or did Texas cool off after UCF throttled them?

Now I see on twitter that Mora has removed his name too. Wonder if that means an announcement is pending so the runner-ups are all saving face?

 

[RUSF18]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

Chip Brown looks to be the leader on this story. Which means it's probably a bunch of bull####.

Brown was the leader on both Dodds stepping down as AD and Mack stepping down as HC.

Oh, good leaping lord. People saw that coming the very second BYU started pulverizing their defense. Not exactly Pulitzer reporting here.

But it wasn't bull####, as that guy suggested that Mora was the most recent choice (backed up from others since then, BTW) because it came from Chip, was it? Was there another reporter who publicly went out with Mack being done before him? I'm sure you can link all of those.

 

[Plorfu]

This is like waiting to find out who's going to be the next Pope.

 

[Clifford]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

 

[B-Deep]

how about Stoops?

Why not get the guy who just took Saban out back and spanked his behind

 

[Abraham]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I'm pretty sure they're gonna get Jesus.

 

[Battles]

It's becoming more and more evident that the baggage of the LHN and the politics of the administration are having an negative impact on who UT can get. Are there really any other negatives to the job?

 

[whoknew]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

 

[Joe T]

It's becoming more and more evident that the baggage of the LHN and the politics of the administration are having an negative impact on who UT can get. Are there really any other negatives to the job?

I think this has been pointed out a few times but the fanbase sucks and the town is pretty much a dump.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

It's becoming more and more evident that the baggage of the LHN and the politics of the administration are having an negative impact on who UT can get. Are there really any other negatives to the job?

I think this has been pointed out a few times but the fanbase sucks and the town is pretty much a dump.

Austin's a dump?

 

[General Malaise]

Sounds like Jim Mora is in the pole position now.

@AdamSchefter: Texas is interested in UCLA coach Jim Mora as a possible replacement for Mack Brown, per sources.

Chip Brown looks to be the leader on this story. Which means it's probably a bunch of bull####.

Brown was the leader on both Dodds stepping down as AD and Mack stepping down as HC.

Oh, good leaping lord. People saw that coming the very second BYU started pulverizing their defense. Not exactly Pulitzer reporting here.

But it wasn't bull####, as that guy suggested that Mora was the most recent choice (backed up from others since then, BTW) because it came from Chip, was it? Was there another reporter who publicly went out with Mack being done before him? I'm sure you can link all of those.

How about you start with the FFA's College Football Thread on 9/7/13 and then tell me Chip Brown was BREAKING NEWS with this story.

 

[General Malaise]

Posted 07 September 2013 - 10:18 PM

Raider Nation, on 07 Sept 2013 - 10:16 PM, said:

Every year people say Mack is on the hot seat, and every year he survives like a rat on a sinking ship. Why would that change now?

$100 side bet? I say he gets fired or resigns before year end. I'll even give you odds. I'll pay out $100 if he DOES NOT and you pay me $75 if he does. Deal?

 

[General Malaise]

I AM CHIP BROWN!

 

[RUSF18]

Yes it's been speculated that he could get fired for about a year. You don't see the difference between random speculation on the internet (I think we can find that on about 95% of coaches) and a guy putting out a story that he is being forced out, and then he's forced out a week later? When it also came a couple months after the same guy reported the AD was going to retire...then the AD put out a statement that he's not retiring...only to then announce his pending retirement a week later?

There have been other people reporting the Texas job was Mora's if he wanted it. Take issue with them too?

 

[General Malaise]

Yes it's been speculated that he could get fired for about a year. You don't see the difference between random speculation on the internet (I think we can find that on about 95% of coaches) and a guy putting out a story that he is being forced out, and then he's forced out a week later? When it also came a couple months after the same guy reported the AD was going to retire...then the AD put out a statement that he's not retiring...only to then announce his pending retirement a week later?

There have been other people reporting the Texas job was Mora's if he wanted it. Take issue with them too?

I just think the reverence for Chip Brown is overblown. Crediting him for 'calling' the Mack Brown resignation seems silly to me when idiots on message boards were saying the same thing in September. Texas fans treat this guy like he's Woodward and Bernstein.

I'm sure there is some truth to the Mora rumor. Hell, at this point, the list of people NOT rumored for the job is shorter than the list of people who WERE rumored for the job. Just freaking hire somebody and be done with it. The drama is on par with the Brett Favre retirement/unretirement debacle for annoyance in sports' news. Pick a lane, Betty. Move on.

 

[Guest]

Shaggy posters want a coach, until he turns them down, then they never wanted him anyway.

 

[Joe T]

Have to agree the Chip Brown thing is way overblown.

It doesnt take a bunch of inside info to figure Mack would be gone at the end of the season. Did he give any other scoops like the Mike Shannahan firing from the Redskins. That one was a complete shocker too. It hadnt been rumored at all.

 

[RUSF18]

I'm not a UT fan so I'm not trying to sell the guy as a psychic...but when the reaction to a piece of news is "it came from Brown so it must be bull####" I think it's fair to point to what he's gotten right over the past few months.

 

[hagmania]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

We can dream, right?

Still don't think Franklin really deserves all these nods. He has done a great job with nothing. I still think he needs to prove what he can do with something.

 

[General Malaise]

Have to agree the Chip Brown thing is way overblown.

It doesnt take a bunch of inside info to figure Mack would be gone at the end of the season. Did he give any other scoops like the Mike Shannahan firing from the Redskins. That one was a complete shocker too. It hadnt been rumored at all.

"Chip Brown reporting that Jerry Jones will remain the GM of the Cowboys, the sun WILL come up in the east tomorrow morning and that smoking cigarettes just might have a negative effect on one's health."

 

[Abraham]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

I'm admittedly biased since I'm a vols fan, and he has done a nice job at vandy. I just don't see him as nearly as great as other people do. He's had two good years but iirc lost to every ranked team he's played except for an injury ravaged Georgia squad. Harbaigh and Meyer were 22-2 in their stops prior to their big college jobs. Franklin is 17 and 9 (?). I just don't see him as the "next great coach".

 

[Christo]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

I'm admittedly biased since I'm a vols fan, and he has done a nice job at vandy. I just don't see him as nearly as great as other people do. He's had two good years but iirc lost to every ranked team he's played except for an injury ravaged Georgia squad. Harbaigh and Meyer were 22-2 in their stops prior to their big college jobs. Franklin is 17 and 9 (?). I just don't see him as the "next great coach".

Ridiculous comparison. Meyer was in the WAC. And Harbaugh was in the FCS.

 

[culdeus]

Franklin has done just as much as DKR or Brown did prior to coming to Texas. At least that is what they will tell themselves if they hire him instead of Strong.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

I'm admittedly biased since I'm a vols fan, and he has done a nice job at vandy. I just don't see him as nearly as great as other people do. He's had two good years but iirc lost to every ranked team he's played except for an injury ravaged Georgia squad. Harbaigh and Meyer were 22-2 in their stops prior to their big college jobs. Franklin is 17 and 9 (?). I just don't see him as the "next great coach".

I keep hearing all this ridiculous talk that winning in the SEC is tougher than winning in the Pioneer League and the Mountain West.

 

[timschochet]

It's becoming more and more evident that the baggage of the LHN and the politics of the administration are having an negative impact on who UT can get. Are there really any other negatives to the job?

I think this has been pointed out a few times but the fanbase sucks and the town is pretty much a dump.

Austin's a dump?

Yeah I'm curious about this too. I've never been, but I know several people who rave about it, including two cousins who attended UT. How is Austin a dump?

 

[timschochet]

As for Franklin, who is the last Vanderbilt coach to even approach his level of success? So he loses to most ranked teams? When is the last time Vanderbilt beat ranked teams on a regular basis?

 

[Abraham]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

I'm admittedly biased since I'm a vols fan, and he has done a nice job at vandy. I just don't see him as nearly as great as other people do. He's had two good years but iirc lost to every ranked team he's played except for an injury ravaged Georgia squad. Harbaigh and Meyer were 22-2 in their stops prior to their big college jobs. Franklin is 17 and 9 (?). I just don't see him as the "next great coach".

Ridiculous comparison. Meyer was in the WAC. And Harbaugh was in the FCS.

Agreed. But Franklin has been brought up in comparison to those two and I don't see it.

 

[General Malaise]

It's becoming more and more evident that the baggage of the LHN and the politics of the administration are having an negative impact on who UT can get. Are there really any other negatives to the job?

I think this has been pointed out a few times but the fanbase sucks and the town is pretty much a dump.

Austin's a dump?

Yeah I'm curious about this too. I've never been, but I know several people who rave about it, including two cousins who attended UT. How is Austin a dump?

You guys just now running into JoeT?

 

[General Malaise]

Longhorn fans tired of Steve Patterson yet?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Franklin coaches today. It's gotta be him.

oof.

I don't know why you are down on Franklin. He's awesome.

I hope Texas doesn't hire him - so he stays at Vanderbilt forever.

I'm admittedly biased since I'm a vols fan, and he has done a nice job at vandy. I just don't see him as nearly as great as other people do. He's had two good years but iirc lost to every ranked team he's played except for an injury ravaged Georgia squad. Harbaigh and Meyer were 22-2 in their stops prior to their big college jobs. Franklin is 17 and 9 (?). I just don't see him as the "next great coach".

I keep hearing all this ridiculous talk that winning in the SEC is tougher than winning in the Pioneer League and the Mountain West.

You bite your tongue mister! Pioneer League even has its very own website!!!!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Hee-hee. Morehead

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Austin's a dump. Keep it weird, bro.

 

[bentley]

Longhorn fans tired of Steve Patterson yet?

No. Contrary to the opinion of every overreacting ####### on the Internet that believes everything posted on Twitter, this seems to be a pretty normal process. I'm still happy that the good guy BMDs managed to push Dodds out and hire Patterson forcing Mack out. Also really feel that Charlie Strong is in the bag as the floor for a coach (which would make me happy) pending assurance that nobody better is going to take the job.

I'm also not putting much stock in the "removing myself from consideration" talk from some of the second tier candidates. Gary Barnett officially removed himself from consideration for the Texas job in 1998 shortly before Mack was hired when he (a) definitely wanted the job and (b) was the favorite of a vocal minority (including Dodds) that ended up being overruled.

 

[General Malaise]

Well, for the sake of my dad, you, my buddies who went to UT I hope Patterson is a changed man. He sits atop a pyramid of hated sports figures in Portland. He's going to have to learn how to play nice with others at Texas...or maybe he's just a hired hatchet man for now.

 

[timschochet]

Obviously I'm happy about Mora. It shows, hopefully, that he regards UCLA as not a transit for a better job, but a place to stay and build a powerhouse. I hope I'm proven right about this.

 

[Abraham]

Longhorn fans tired of Steve Patterson yet?

No. Contrary to the opinion of every overreacting ####### on the Internet that believes everything posted on Twitter, this seems to be a pretty normal process. I'm still happy that the good guy BMDs managed to push Dodds out and hire Patterson forcing Mack out. Also really feel that Charlie Strong is in the bag as the floor for a coach (which would make me happy) pending assurance that nobody better is going to take the job.I'm also not putting much stock in the "removing myself from consideration" talk from some of the second tier candidates. Gary Barnett officially removed himself from consideration for the Texas job in 1998 shortly before Mack was hired when he (a) definitely wanted the job and (b) was the favorite of a vocal minority (including Dodds) that ended up being overruled.

Strong would be a good hire. And I don't put much stock in the guys withdrawing from consideration. Briles and mora may have never been spoken to officially anyway.

I still think they should hire tressell but I like cheering for the villain, so whatever.

 

[General Malaise]

I like Tressell.

 

[T Bell]

This whole situation is

BTW, Marty Schottenheimer is available.