September 8th, 2013 at 9:07 PM ^
"Yeah guys we are really going to be stout this game! Not a chance at a shootout!"
September 8th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
Stop being so touching.
September 8th, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
This is a man who has risen way beyond his level of incompetence.
September 8th, 2013 at 8:08 PM ^
not in danger.
thanks for the update.
September 8th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^
I was hoping Lane Kiffin would hire GERG and MSU offensive coordinator Dave Warner to form the ultimate staff of incompetence
September 8th, 2013 at 9:53 PM ^
I know EXACTLY how this happened.
At a press conference:
"Coach Brown, some fans have started asking, 'Could the defense possibly be any worse?'"
"You know son, that's a good question. I wonder... *Mack Brown begins rubbing his chin in speculation.*"
September 8th, 2013 at 10:46 PM ^
If you think Mack Brown would put even 5 minutes of thought into that question before just picking Robinson, you give him way more credit than he deserves.
September 8th, 2013 at 10:44 PM ^
I know this thread devolved rather quickly, but this hire never made sense. The problem, though, is deeper than a DC. Brown has been coasting at Texas for years now, and at some point he needs to be let go.
September 8th, 2013 at 10:58 PM ^
I remember when people on the board wanted Manny Diaz as a DC. GERG to the rescue!
September 9th, 2013 at 12:00 AM ^
It doesn't seem like such a bad hire to me. The worst move Robinson made at Michigan was to accept the position of DC with so many handicaps in place (forced to run a defense he'd never run before with the position coaches he was stuck with). It was a setup for disaster from the get-go. I'm assuming he and Mack Brown are on the same page and as long as the position coaches are decent he has an opportunity to change things for the better, in time. His biggest problem will most likely be that fans will expect significant change in a short period of time, something I'm not sure anyone would be able to do.
September 9th, 2013 at 12:04 AM ^
Hahaha so Mack Brown just signed his one way ticket out.
September 9th, 2013 at 12:39 AM ^
Is even left to play defense after the Donnor party devoured them!!!!
September 9th, 2013 at 1:11 AM ^
Was he threatening to reveal some very damaging information about Mack Brown and Texas football? Or does he get credit for his one previous season as Co-Defensive Coordinator at Texas when he didn't make the defense worse than it had been the previous season? Is this going to be the "Gergian Redemption Tour, Part Deux?" (Part One at Michigan was an unmitigated disaster.) Did no one in the Texas Athletics Administration check out his most-recent accomplishments? Did Jerry Van Dyke turn down the job?
Last year, he was coaching long snappers and helping with the defense at a California high school.
"Gergian" defenses in the NFL ranked 24th with the Denver Broncos in 2000, and then, with the Kansas City Chiefs, 23rd in 2001, 32nd in 2002 and 29th in 2003 when he last coached in the NFL.
His most-recent college defenses were ranked 57th (using Paul Pasqualoni’s players) in 2005, 107th in 2006, 111th in 2007 and 101st in 2008 at Syracuse; and 82nd in 2009 and 108th in 2010 at Michigan.
In those ten seasons, six of his defenses finished in the bottom 20% of all teams. The one "good" season out of those ten (2005) saw his defense ranked just barely in the top half of all NCAA FBS teams.
So, Texas takes the Costanza Method for solving its football team's problems.
September 9th, 2013 at 9:45 AM ^
While I think GERG has a chance to be moderately succesful since I'm guessing Mack Brown won't make him run a defensive alignment he doesn't understand or make him retain position coaches who don't know how to coach their positions, I still don't understand this move. Texas has more money than any other college athletic department in America. You can throw Mattison-like money at any coaching guru you want. Narduzzi, Diaco....anybody, and you pick GERG?!
September 9th, 2013 at 10:15 AM ^
One day soon, Lane Kiffin will hire GERG as his DC.
It will be the ultimate coaching combo of: How the hell do these guys keep getting hired?!?
September 9th, 2013 at 12:06 PM ^
A helluva interview.
September 9th, 2013 at 10:46 AM ^
If Mack Brown is coaching the team in 2014, it will be a mild surprise to me, and if he is coaching them in 2015, it will be a total shocker.
September 9th, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^