Real Name Grover posted:

@BruceFeldmanCFB
Source tells @FoxSports "Not sure it'll go thru, but there will be a big push for Mack (Brown) to become the next AD at #Texas."

Mr. World posted:

I guess Joe Jamail really has a lot of pull if he was able to make this happen this quickly.

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

He had a good OC. Like Watson was incredibly successful at Louisville.

I think the problem for Strong is exactly what I said would doom him when they hired him: he does not have the personality you need to be a coach at Texas. Texas needs basically a guy like Mack who likes to hang out with the boosters and talk tot he media. Strong just wants to coach football and be left alone.

Thermos H Christ posted:

Watson was incredibly successful at eating clock, keeping the defense off the field, not turning the ball over, and scoring enough points to win if the defense played lights-out. He did turn Teddy Bridgewater in to an awesome QB who could run that pro-style/West Coast offense. He gets credit for that. But that philosophy is not going to work in the Big 12. Look at Gary Patterson. There's another defensive-minded coach who had success in a lesser conference before finding himself in the Big 12. He tried to stick to his old ways and led the conference in defense for 2 years while losing a ton of games. Once he abandoned the idea of playing defense on both sides of the ball and started playing Texas-style offense, he suddenly had one of the better teams in the country. The best defense in the Big 12 will never be able to hold the best offenses down, no matter how much you dominate TOP. You must be able to put up a lot of points.

Jerrod Heard is the archetype for the QBs coming out of Texas these days. He will not ever be good at running the WCO. But he can throw quick passes and deep jump balls at WRs in single coverage or pull it down and take off running, and he can do that really, really well. That was our bread and butter back when Texas had an identity on offense and actually had success. That's basically what Vince and Colt were. Ever since Bama broke Mack's brain and we got away from that, it's been bad times. Based on one game against Rice and the scuttlebutt coming out of the program, it sounds like we're looking at getting back to that. If Strong will commit to allowing his offense to play offense instead of being mostly an appendage of the defense, he will do just fine once he gets another class or two in here. But he must decide whether he wants to be Gary Patterson or Will Muschamp.

Raku posted:

So the actual next stage of Texas is they get pissed at the Strongs/Muschamps and hire an "offensive guru" as coach, right?

Lanehorns

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

I am going to give you a spoiler: Charlie Strong won't survive more than more bad season, particularly with a new AD.

I also think your supposition about having to have a "high flying offense" is kind of silly and ignores the success that, you know, Kansas State has had for years and also that, like WVU's offense as ran by Dana "Air Raid" Holgo is basically a clock control offense now.

Raku posted:

So the actual next stage of Texas is they get pissed at the Strongs/Muschamps and hire an "offensive guru" as coach, right?

Lanehorns

Thermos H Christ posted:

Kansas State and WVU don't have to pull most of their recruits from Texas

pillsburysoldier posted:

Hire Jon Gruden as AD.

Raku posted:

So the actual next stage of Texas is they get pissed at the Strongs/Muschamps and hire an "offensive guru" as coach, right?

Lanehorns

pillsburysoldier posted:

Hire Jon Gruden as AD.

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

lol what

Thermos H Christ posted:

Strong has said it himself. QBs and skill players from Texas came up playing wide open offense. Recruits here do not want to come play boring cro-magnon ball control offense or memorize 10-lb WCO playbooks when they could go shine at Baylor or TCU or A&M. He cited that as a reason for switching to an alleged uptempo spread offense this year, going so far as to call it a necessity for recruiting. Unfortunately he kept Watson on to install that offense, which worked out about as well as Mack Brown telling Greg Davis to give him Bama's offense.

Thermos H Christ posted:

If it happened today I would be in favor of Morris or Herman with a badass DC

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

You do know that almost every QB that both KState and WVU have recruited came out of Texas? And that, you can have a run-first, ball control offense and still be spread/zone read?

Thermos H Christ posted:

And how many recruiting battles for top Texas QBs are KState and WVU winning against A&M, Baylor, and TCU nowadays? And yes I am aware that Gus Malzahn and Chad Morris exist. What they do is very different from what Watson was doing at Louisville and what he tried to do here last year. I can't even tell what he was trying to do this year.

pillsburysoldier posted:

Marco Rubio and Clay Travis join forces to dump on Florida State
http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/marco-rubio-crushes-florida-state-091415

Crotch Bat posted:

DJExile posted:

So was Patterson to Texas basically what Dave Brandon was to Michigan?

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

Worse.

vyst posted:

My favorite Patterson is an rear end in a top hat AD move was when he made assistant coaches buy meals in the team cafeteria or some bullshit like that.

Scarf posted:

Texas. Texas never changes.

Emron posted:

If he comes back and you don't make the next GDT "Return Of The Mack" then I don't know what to tell you

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Everett Golson is Jimbo's most advanced QB model yet. Bypasses that "good" part, and skips right to what they'll look like in the NFL.

LeeMajors posted:

New HAS: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/9/15/9325935/hatin-rear end-spurrier

kayakyakr posted:

It's interesting that the "final straw" may well have been the story about UT charging the TTU band for seats, which means that a reporter on TTU's Rivals site wound up getting Patterson fired.

Scrapez posted:

How can you be a "bad fit" at Texas? With all of that in-state talent I don't even see how it's possible not to succeed there but obviously it is more than possible.

LeeMajors posted:

New HAS: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/9/15/9325935/hatin-rear end-spurrier

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Just because they're called Bowling Green doesn't mean you're supposed to see if they can get to 300, Maryland.