Mack Brown

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After being a closet longhorn fan for along time after hearing all the rumors this week and even earlier this season about Saben going to Texas, it looks like Mack might be stepping down. It seems like folks act like Mack is 100 years old and couldnt coach a pee wee team, alot of folks must not remember what the UT football program was like 16 years ago before Mack got there. My favorite National Championship game ever was Texas vs Usc with 4th down and less than a minute to go Vince Young scores the winning touchdown to beat #1 Usc. Dont really think Mack has deserved all this bad hype at the end of his career.
 
But, What have you done for us lately?
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Ya can't lose that many games to Oklahoma and remain head coach at UT. If they'd played A&M the last 2 years they would probably have lost as well and he would have already been gone. Those are must win games for a UT coach.
 
greybeard":3lime9a1 said:
But, What have you done for us lately?
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Ya can't lose that many games to Oklahoma and remain head coach at UT. If they'd played A&M the last 2 years they would probably have lost as well and he would have already been gone. Those are must win games for a UT coach.
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That is true but UT is treating Mac like crap. There was another pick for head coach at UT but one of his conditions was UT had to transition Mac out gracefully. UT declined and went with some one who would push Mac out and not give a ####.
 
College football is big money; you win or you're out. I don't think UT has treated him unfairly but I also don't see or read the amount of propaganda you get in TX since I live in MO. He's lucky he hasn't been fired in my opinion.
 
Let's see if I can put this in cow terms...... You have an unlimited budget, and can choose from the top breeds and animals available , but you produce dinks and culls year in and year out....... Is it the cattle's fault or the breederss

Even more damning is the fact that you could have had the last 4 Heisman trophy winners, but you passed on em because they didn't fit your system!
 
Even more damning is the fact that you could have had the last 4 Heisman trophy winners, but you passed on em because they didn't fit your system!"

I appreciate all Mack has done but I think the game has past him by.....
 
No, not the only thing wrong, but as the 2nd highest paid coach in college football--right behind Nick Saban---around $5mil per year, he's expected to produce--EVERY year. Doesn't have to be national champ, but needs and is expected to win the conference title. He's the equivilent of a corporation CEO, and when they lose, the CEO gets fired--period. "Ease out"? Get real, college football in universities such as Texas, Alabama, Ohio State and USC is big $ and even bigger prestige. If you're gonna take the job and the pay, ya better DO the job. Brown knew going in what is expected of and from him. He's a big boy and leaves there a lot richer than when he got there.

Moving on..........
Speculation had originally focused on perhaps a $7 million salary but soon escalated. Dean Blevins, the sports director of KWTV in Oklahoma City, tweeted that a Texas source had indicated the offer for Saban was $100 million for 10 years and 1 percent of the Longhorn Network.

Depends how that 1% is structured. If it is 1% of their gross annual revenue, it comes to about 3 million per year on top of a $10 million/year contract IF he is there 20 years, since the LHN's current contract with ESPN is for $300 mil over 20 years. Broken down per year, LHN is worth $15mil per year. 1% would actually be $1.5 mil/year, due to some clauses in the contract and how it is paid to UT by the broadcaster.


If it is 1% of revenue AFTER the university's media licensing partner gets it's cut and AFTER the school itself get's it's cut, then it comes to only about $62,000/year on top of the $100 mil over a 10 year period.
Alabama has made their offer, but Saban hasn't accepted or declined it yet.
Let the bidding begin.
 
Im not saying that his record of late isnt up to UT standards,heck give Saban 16 years with one team and see what his record is, the only part that I dont like is the way they went about it.
 
Mac has produced every year. UT still has the highest grossing football program... win or no win.... Because of Mac.

I agree Mac needs to move on to greener pastures but the way UT is handling it is wrong... and you will not read about the BS they pulled any where. Years down the road... maybe.

I am not a UT fan at all... but from a business and moral stand point I highly disagree with what UT did... is doing... to Mac. The future coaches better take note. UT will be the next Dallas Cowboys.
 
I think Saben will stay too,the only thing this will do for him is up his money at Alabama,UT needs to look at coaches that would go there, there going to have to go down farther than they think.
 
As of this morning Mack Brown says his job status is the same, I think everyone knows he's gone, probably after the Alamo bowl. Texas was/is an elite program and 8-4, hopefully 8-5 does not cut it. Longhorn fans expect the team to be a national championship contender every year, Mack isn't even bringing home conference titles. The question is who's going to step into that job?

Alabama is in the middle of negotiating a contract extension with Saban, I think Saban stays put.
 
I really could care less about what they do with the coaches.. to me, most of them at the major universities are over paid anyway.
So what are they doing to Mack? paying him quite well is what they are doing.
Saben he will most likely negotiate for more money and stay put.
 
Kingfisher":nr2r1tht said:
What is it that some of y'all feel "the university is doing to Mack??
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King. I don't think they're doing anything to him. I do think they would like for him to shyt or get off the pot so they will know what to do next
 
I've read the same kind of stuff about Kubiak's firing this week.
"Yall are being unfair to Coach--he took us to an AFC south division title and all yall are doing is applauding his being sacked! And he had a mini-stroke this year too--ya'll are being insensitive and unfair! WAH WAH WAH!!"

I guess the Texan front office was supposed to just e---a----s----e Kubiak out with his 11loss-2win record later on so he could make it 13loss-2win.
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