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And even Saban wasn't a Saban level hire at the time. Bombed out in the NFL. Successor to three spares at Alabama. I think there's a significant part of the Texas fanbase that had an "A" list of Saban, the two guys that coached in the Super Bowl last year, and the two guys that are coaching the National Championship game this year. Those fans are delusional #######s.
Well, they do have a certain financial motivation. Texas gets its money regardless of whether anyone ever watches LHN. ESPN is the one on the hook for the deal.
Agreed. I can't remember the last time there was a college hire where fans said, "this mediocre program is going to be really good in a couple years" except for Brian Kelly going to notre dame. That seemed like an obvious win. Same with Meyer to ohio state.
He was an assistant at Florida under 5 different head coaches. He really should have gotten his first head coach job long before he did. A lot of people have questioned whether his interracial marriage was a factor in it taking so long.
I am sure we will ad nauseam how this is the first black coach to win at Texas.
Agreed. When Dooley was hired at Tennessee it was a freaking circus. They talked to three people: muschamp, Cutcliffe, and Dooley. Muschamp's agent requested that the school not speak to any other candidates while they are discussing the job which meant the end of the conversation. Cutcliffe wanted to bring is own assistants which gave the school pause. So Dooley got the job and turned out to perhaps be the worst bCs football coaching hire ever
Alabama signed the #1 player in Texas on Thurs. The rest of the 9 highest ranked kids are split between LSU, TAMU, Baylor, and Oregon. They definitely have room for improvement.
The Chip Kelley one had me rolling. Guy was coaching a team to the playoffs in his first NFL season. BUT IT'S TEXAS!!!!
You guys think that's bad, you should join me on the Houston rockets forum. Let me see if I can find the recent link where a guy built a trade around Terrence jones and omer Asik that landed Kevin love and derron Williams both in Houston in time for Phil Jackson to come be the coach...The Chip Kelley one had me rolling. Guy was coaching a team to the playoffs in his first NFL season. BUT IT'S TEXAS!!!!
That guy is you, isn't it?You guys think that's bad, you should join me on the Houston rockets forum. Let me see if I can find the recent link where a guy built a trade around Terrence jones and omer Asik that landed Kevin love and derron Williams both in Houston in time for Phil Jackson to come be the coach...The Chip Kelley one had me rolling. Guy was coaching a team to the playoffs in his first NFL season. BUT IT'S TEXAS!!!!
What are the 10 things we don't know?????
Horrible headline, but it's actually a quote from Lou Holtz.
Solomon Thomas is still available (#3 player). Though he's going to Stanford if he gets admitted. Otherwise, it sounds like a UCLA, Texas, Ohio St. battle for him, and Texas might be intriguing with Strong.
"I don't see how they can miss," McCombs told the paper. "They can get anyone they want."
So deliciously delusional.
That guy is you, isn't it?You guys think that's bad, you should join me on the Houston rockets forum. Let me see if I can find the recent link where a guy built a trade around Terrence jones and omer Asik that landed Kevin love and derron Williams both in Houston in time for Phil Jackson to come be the coach...The Chip Kelley one had me rolling. Guy was coaching a team to the playoffs in his first NFL season. BUT IT'S TEXAS!!!!
He's a reasonably unlikeable guy, but he's not an idiot, he made his own money, and I'm not sure he's a crook.
Art Acevedo (local police chief) called in right after to say he'd had lunch with Strong and was very happy and thought he would do well.
So did Strong kind of have to have lunch with that guy and other community people as an informal part of the job?
I think its kinda expected. The head football coach at the University of Texas is by default one of the most important people in Austin. I think he's expected to be a part of the community.
Always helps to know the police chief when you coach a College football team to make sure you get notified quickly when to come down and pick up one of your guys.
I've never been a part of a big university culture in any way, but that was my perception. I just think it's interesting because sometimes people think that these college jobs are such great gigs and don't understand why people leave (see PSU/O'Brien, among others). If you are not into that, it's going to get tiresome quickly. I would think that I would just want to focus on football and not have all these lunches and other crap.
