OT: Rumor: Mack Brown to Retire on Saturday
Via Jake Lebhan, reporter from Topeka, KS (580 WIBW):
@JakeLebahn: According to a source Texas Longhorn head coach Mack Brown will retire this Saturday after the game against Baylor.
Crazy offseason for coaches if true. Also, Mike Sherman at A&M may be on on his way out at College Station.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:31 PM ^
Unfamiliar coordinator, positions coaches with longtime relationships to head coach. Where have we heard that story before?
December 1st, 2011 at 4:32 PM ^
Not worrying about your coach ditching you.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:33 PM ^
I'm not convinced Meyer would've been very interested in Texas. I think his wife probably told him in conversation after he left florida that ohio would be the only school she would be comfortable with him coaching if he was to do so again.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:28 PM ^
under their dining room table when they had this conversation?
Though I agree he'd only have gone to Ohio or ND, it just seemed funny that you seemed confident in this assertion of his wife's wants.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:36 PM ^
Ohio, Penn State, Texas
Aside from high expectations. Texas has to be the easiest recruiting job in the nation. You're in the biggest recruiting pool for 5 star talent, and I'd say 90% of them want to go to Texas.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:49 PM ^
According to yahoo the entire roster is from Texas except 7 kids. Each spring Mack Brown presents offers to the kids they want. When summer rolls around, they are done with 90% of their recruiting for the next year.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:53 PM ^
because they are forced to take 90% Texas kids, and if they don't get a Benson + Vince Young at the same time, they are average.
December 2nd, 2011 at 1:19 AM ^
They do have this quarterback that TomVH really liked coming in though. May be he's the answer.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:50 PM ^
Not gonna be as uncommon as it used to be to have multiple elite jobs all open in the same year. The days of coaches becoming 20-year institutions at their programs is over.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:30 PM ^
Agree about Texas for recruiting. California and Florida are just as good for talent, but those states don't have one dominate school controlling the recruiting.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^
doesn't have one dominate school controlling recruiting? I would disagree. SC is still going to control recruiting there even while they are on probation.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:57 PM ^
Don't you think Oregon bites into SC's California recruiting more than whoever #2 in Texas is does to UT? I bet so. I feel like TX has a bigger advantage in its home state than SC does in its.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:41 PM ^
Wow, wonder if he is having any health issues?
December 1st, 2011 at 4:45 PM ^
I heard he just wants to spend one offseason with his family.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:52 PM ^
Gene Chizik, and Gus will be HC at Auburn
December 1st, 2011 at 4:55 PM ^
I would imagine the job would be a great one for Gary Patterson, and I am sure they'd take him in a cold minute. I would imagine Sumlin would fill this spot nicely if he somehow isn't going to ASU.
How long as it been since this many headline jobs have been up in the air?
December 1st, 2011 at 5:00 PM ^
Well, that's a pretty big job opening. The head coaching position at Texas is probably one of the top head coaching jobs in the country. It's a prestigious football program in a big football state; you have your choice of top notch high school talent, the school has fantastic facilities, tons of $$$. I am just wondering who the heck is out there that is available to coach and that is worthy enough of the position? Gary Patterson would seem to be the obvious choice. What about Chris Petersen? Then again, he did turn down other big-time jobs and expressed that he is content at Boise. What about John Chavis? Bill Cowher?
December 1st, 2011 at 5:17 PM ^
http://twitter.com/BryanDFischer/statuses/142364906463821826
RT @ChipBrownOB I'm told Mack Brown doesn't plan to retire any time soon.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:23 PM ^
Chip Brown... the mouthpiece of UT athletics.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:48 PM ^
I hear Urban Meyer is super happy at ESPN.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:27 PM ^
the Texas players step up this weekend to give Brown a win in his last game to prevent any chance of Baylor sneaking above us in the BCS rankings.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:34 PM ^
Crazy, I'm down here in Austin and go away from my computer for 30 minutes and this happens. The UT alumni magazine blog posted a quick article about it here:
http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2011/12/mack-brown-retiring-rubbish/
Quote from the article: "When I emailed Mack’s people for a response, they wrote: “You can say we said it doesn’t even warrant a response.”"
December 1st, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
yoo.. you live down there? very cool, im moving in three weeks to Austin and was wondering about the michigan alumni club.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Yeah actually in grad school at UT, so they're my (distant) second favorite school now. You'll enjoy it down here, I've had a pretty good time.
Don't know much about the Alumni club because I usually watch the Michigan games with classmates who went to Michigan. There seem to be quite a few UM grads down here though.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:54 PM ^
we've even got John U. Bacon visiting next weekend
December 1st, 2011 at 6:12 PM ^
Should he have waited untill the some of the coaching dusted settled and have a better option than Arizona? Not that RichRod would get the Texas job, buthe might have gotten a better job than Arizona.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:22 PM ^
RichRod should, and did, wind up at a program that was beaten-down enough that they would look upon him as a savior. Patience in the face of salvation is easier to come by when you don't have a long line of illustrious predecessors to live up to. Also, nobody at Arizona is making outlandish promises about how RichRod will transform the program into a perennial MNC (ahem, like certain MGoSiteOwners) .
December 1st, 2011 at 6:42 PM ^
Texas brought in some really good coaches last year. The reason they weren't more successful was because Texas is young and their coaching got lazy the for a couple years prior. The Oline went soft (so they got Wisc O-line coach), the offense went stale (so they got Boise's OC), the DC left (so they got the hottest DC in CFB from Miss St) and a few others. It takes time to get players who haven't been coached properly to play well sometimes. They needed to get back to a lot of fundamentals and teach people how to play. They start a bunch of Freshman. I guess I wouldn't be surprised if someone got promoted if this is true.
December 1st, 2011 at 10:41 PM ^
with all their talent, they have no good excuse for two bad seasons in a row.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:51 PM ^
One plus is that with all the coaches retiring/being fired, it takes away alot more guys Urban could be looking at as potential coordinators. I mean all of his previous coordinators are head coaches somewhere else except for Mattison, and with all the coaching changes this will hurt him a bit more.
On a side note, man in like 3 years once Mike Leach and RR get recruits into their schools respectively, boy the PAC12 is gonna be insane for offenses, with Oregon, Arizona and Wazzu. Hopefully RR takes a leason from his time at Michigan and gets himself someone that can marginally coach a defense. Seriously he just needs someone that can hold the other team to under 28 and he will win a bunch, same goes for Mike Leach.
December 1st, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
Corwin Brown & John Tenuta?
December 1st, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
If Urban pulled a "ND...mmm, no...Florida" to OSU and went to Texas?
December 1st, 2011 at 8:00 PM ^
always seemed like a coach I'd like to play for if I were a high school kid. I'd of course pick Michigan instead, but Texas would definitely be in the mix.
December 1st, 2011 at 10:38 PM ^
He reminded me too much of a former president (not trying to start anything political), so I never felt like he was trust worthy.
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:10 AM ^
This season Brown often looks lost on the sidelines, like an old man who's memory and talents are slipping, kind of the way JoePa looked 20 years ago.