The Goats Have Been Sacrificed In Austin
by ccmachine on Dec 6, 2010 1:15 PM CST
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PrintGreg Davis has been with Mack Brown since the two came together at Tulane in the 1980's. That ended on Monday when Davis resigned as the offensive coordinator of the Texas Longhorns, a position he has held for the last 13 seasons. Davis became the first of three victims to this season's 5-7 record posted by the Longhorn.
Davis "officially" resigned on Monday making way for Mack Brown to start over with his offense by hiring someone else to try and convince quarterback Garrett Gilbert to stop throwing the ball to the other team. Gilbert finished his first full season as the Texas starting quarterback with 9 touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
Also gone for the Texas coaching staff are offensive line coach and associate head coach Mac McWhorter as well as special teams coordinator Mike Tolleson. Both men chose on Monday to announce their "retirement."
There's no way that it is a coincidence beast three men all left the program at once. This is clearly a "housecleaning" move by Mack Brown who has chosen to part ways with a longtime friend. What I find most ironic is that Mack Brown had to address the issue by statements rather than a press conference because in an act of separation from this issue and as a major marketing ploy is dedicating today to get onto as many ESPN shows as possible.
You just can't get anymore classier than firing three coaches while you're gone to ESPN headquarters. Especially when you know that the fine folks who work for ESPN are only going to throw softball questions Brown's way this afternoon and this evening. Always smooth and always the politician Mack Brown has certainly learned how to work the system. While Texas won't be playing in a bowl game this post season is Longhorns dominate the conversations on the network that will carry the BSC Bowls.
Leave it up to Mack Brown to find a way to keep his team relevant after a season in which they were highly irrelevant. Congratulations, Mack you've made the necessary sacrifices to stave off the doubters for now. Unfortunately are still stuck with Garrett Gilbert. Good luck with that!
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I like Mack Brown. I really do.
I think he’s a good coach and a good representative of our rivals.
However….
I also think that UT is Douchebag State. I think they run their COLLEGE athletic department like it’s the New York Yankees. And I think that collegiate athletics is not supposed to be like that.
I love hating Texas. It’s one of my favorite things in the world. That said, Texas being Texas has decided to take away something cool. If they took a good hard look at Duke/Carolina, they would get it.
In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?"
I think what I find the most entertaining
Is how absolutley convinced UT fan is that this now solves ALL of their problems. Not quite sure how to follow that logic, but then again it is whorn logic so goes without saying that it’s beyond stupid.
So what’s the over/under on the announcement of whoever and the “Gilly is a Heisman candidate again”? I’m going with 18 hours and taking the under, big time.
"I don't like Texas. I don't like the city of Austin. And I don't like the color orange. It reminds me of puke." The Boz
No surprise
They are in a critical period with their program right now. With alot talent returning for not only OU, but OSU and A&M and TCU now going to a BCS conf. the pressure is on BIG TIME in Austin. The difference in talent at the skill position on O between OU and Texass right now has not been this bad for them since the mid 80’s and they know it.
Botton Line, OU will be in the National Title hunt and Texass will be trying for a winnng season next year!
"I feel fortunate.... It's just great to get another championship." Bob Stoops
Wow. You chokelahoma fans better watch out....
So I know the Longhorn cowpie of a season will help ease the pain of yet another choked away BCS bowl loss (gee, how many BCS bowl wins have you guys had in the last few years?) to Connecticut even, and given, at least, the Sooner Schooner WILL get to be at a bowl this year while Bevo stays home.
In any case, I’d be worried if I were you guys up there in Norman. See, Mack’s not REALLY the nice guy he used to be, letting Greg stink up the field with those insanely predictable wide receiver screen passes (typically 8-10 per game, averaging 2-3 yards), having McWhorter letting Colt’s/Gilbert’s/Whomever’s blind side be completely unprotected forcing a QB fumble at a critical point, or having the opponent start at the 50 yard line every third kickoff. You see, the Longhorns have been winning despite the ineptitude of the coaching because they had a lot of talent and great leadership. But of course this year, they’ve got talent that didn’t have leadership, and also forgot how to block, tackle, catch, run, pass, kick, yada yada yada. Mentally immature and weak-minded players who are only worried about celebrating individual plays so they can get into the NFL their sophomore year….
But Mack’s going to fix all that. In 2007, instead of a whole season going down the tubes, you had the cowpie performance in the A&M game. Out went the “Desert Swarm” Def. Coord. Coaches, in came Muschamp (I don’t know where he was this season, but that’s another post) and Mack got tough. 2008 we had the best football team in the country, and WE woulda/coulda/shoulda played Florida and won the NC. (Gee, how did you guys do that year? Oh yeah, another BCS bust….) But UT had to live down the CrabTree Play against TTU-Nobody ever talks about the fact they started from their 48 yard line after poor UT kick coverage, they just remember Blake “Breadbasket” Gideon dropping the NC game on the play prior to Crabtree’s admittedly fantastic play….
So, you guys need to watch out. Now I think Mack is pissed. He’s pissed about losing out in ‘08. It’s extremely hard to get in the POSITION to play in the NC. He’s pissed losing the game last year. It’s extremely hard to win it once you get there (oh yeah, you guys know about that from ‘08). He’s pissed about no coaching or leadership this year. He’s pissed about that SportsCenter commercial where he has to sit across from Nick Saban who has 2 NC’s to Mack’s 1, and knowing deep down, he SHOULD have at least 2, and probably 3 by now. The reason he doesn’t have those is because he hasn’t done everything it takes to win. Before. Now he’s doing what it takes. You guys better watch out.
You chokelahoma fans remember this post in about 3 years……Good luck.
i never get tired
of longhorn fans making fun of our 2008 NCG loss in the same breath that they make excuses for their loss the next year.
calonghorn… are you really mack brown? shouldn’t you be out recruiting a D-1 quarterback right now?
first, Whorn, go suck a nut
that’s Texassians do really well….SUCK
second, we haven’t a darn thing to worry about because your morons fired the wrong person. When di UTexass start losing a few games, NC’s and a whole season? What was the only change in the setup?
Coach Crap Mouth. Yuk Yuk, you guys kept him. Plan on getting many many yards rammed where the sun doesn’t shine on you and enjoy it.
You thought your offence was bad look directly at the Defense, it’s worse by far. Bull crap on stats’ they mean nothing, look atr who stomped mudholes in you backside this year and who was the D coach.
happy Losing Whorns.
Delusional
Is my favorite whorn quality….
But this one just appears to have hit happy hour celebrating the loss of GD…
by OU JJ on Dec 6, 2010 4:00 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Dude Actually Started Out With "Chokelahoma" In The First Line When His Team Just Finished A 5-7 Season
The sad thing is that he’s probably so proud of this post that he’s bragging about this “awesome” post he left at an OU fansite and is looking to get a high five for it.
The reality of it is that in addition to the typical Texas banter of, “You guys suck because you can’t win a BCS championship game. Well…we can’t either but because we’re Texas we have a valid excuse. We would have beaten Florida in `08 but we couldn’t get past Texas Tech and didn’t make it to the game. I really know we would have beaten them and you guys suck for losing a game that we didn’t even qualify for.” – This dude also basically just said that Mack Brown has been under performing until now but we’d better watch out because he’s serious about winning now. You’re really satisfied to have a coach that’s been there for 13 years and is just now getting serious about winning? That is why you, my friend, and your football program are an absolute joke!
orly?
i have seen way too many movies but the only thing i could think about after reading this was Khan’s death scene:
From Hell’s heart I stab at thee…
I especially like how he hasnt done everything to win it before
WTF exactly does that mean…. & why would you say that about your coach for the last 12 years. Why would you keep him around if he hasnt done everything he could do to win?!?!?!
Mack pissed because his so-called top recruiting classes over the last year are OVERRATED!!!
Scoreboard buddy!!! 7-5 head to head and 7 Big 12 championships to 3…….. oh and speaking of choking nice job on not making a bowl game after appearing in the National Championship Game, a new first and ALL TIME LOW in the BCS era. Congrats.
"I feel fortunate.... It's just great to get another championship." Bob Stoops
Hey, speaking of Choking on Applesauce, worry about winning a home game or two then get back to us
"I feel fortunate.... It's just great to get another championship." Bob Stoops
What I find funny
is that UT gets so much help in Big XII games by the officiating crew that it is inexcusable to lose 7, yes count em 7, games in a season. We simply need to look at last season when UT played NU for a Big XII title and the refs gave UT an extra second (after the regulation clock should have run out) for them to kick a FG and win the game. UT fans will continue to bring up the fact that OU has struggled in BCS games but at least we are making it unlike our red-headed step child in UT. I don’t want to toot my OU horn but…UT is 25-22-2 in bowl appearances while OU is 25-17-1 so if we want to talk about bowl struggles, it looks like UT struggles more than OU does.
Don't forget this either
Texas had a LOSING bowl record before the run of creampuff bowls they won by being second fiddle to OU in the Big 12. While we were generally playing juggernauts, or at least conference champs in BCS bowls…Texas was winning (barely usually) over garbage teams.
Year Tex Opponent OU opponent
2000 Ore (10-2) FSU (11-2)
2001 WASH (8-4) ARK (7-5)
2002 LSU (8-5) WSU (10-3)
2003 WSU (10-3) LSU (13-1)
2004 Mich (9-3) USC (13-0)
2005 USC (12-1) Ore (10-2)
2006 Iowa (6-7) BSU (13-0)
2007 ASU (10-3) WVU (11-2)
2008 Oh St (10-3) UF (13-1)
2009 Ala (14-0) Stan (8-5)
Just a cursory viewing shows OU played opponents with better records 7 out of 10 times. Plus there is little doubt that in at least 1 of those times that Texas played a team with a better record that 7-5 Arkansas was better than 8-4 Washington. Texas combined opponents record was 97-31 (0.757) , OU’s was 109-21 (0.901). In other words, it should be clear to anyone with even 3 functional brain cells that OU has played MUCH better competition than Texas in bowls….which stands to reason since OU has won 3 times as many conf titles as Texas in that 10 year period.
Texas will be lucky to win 8 next year. Hide and watch behind ur running game lol
by oiltrsh on Dec 6, 2010 3:52 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Hey Texas Sports Illustrated called they want the cover shot of your defense back. HA HA
by oiltrsh on Dec 6, 2010 4:13 PM CST via mobile reply actions
“It’s extremely hard to get in the POSITION to play in the NC.”
We know. We’ve done it more than you.
Whereas, being in the position to play in a bowl game at all requires six wins. Ours is in Arizona, where’s yours?
In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?"
by SaintSooner on Dec 6, 2010 4:28 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
I know where!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPBnciNAqI
"I feel fortunate.... It's just great to get another championship." Bob Stoops
Hehe
A Longhorn trying to dispense advice on getting to the MNC game to a Sooner forum! Isn’t that kinda like Madonna offering abstainment advice to Mother Teresa?
Of course
Of course the longhorns have slashed so many coaches,they are a whole year out of playing in the national championship. A classy program there,eh?
What I wanna know is with the stir up in Austin...
Do we see Dana Holgrenson make the move to UT next season?
No way, Boone Can buy all of Utexass if he wanted
I really believe he want’s to keep Holgerson bad and will spend whatever it takes to win the B 12-2. If it came down to nut cutting time Boone would send Gumby packing to keep Holgerson
Just in my opinion
UT is going to be a better team than OSU with more money to pay their coaches with. UT also has more history and will draw better talent in the years to come that OSU will. I agree with you that Boone will try to keep Dana but everyone has their price so if UT can match every offer made by OSU, which program would you prefer if you were Dana (all bias thoughts aside)?
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