Augie ain't goin' nowhere just yet.

Perhaps, but IMHO the burnt orange clock is ticking on ol' Augie's time in Austin....

 

JFC!

 

We got us a Mackie, baby!

 

Godz, you be trollin

 

Guess this just shows why I appreciated what Barnes did so much. SP asked him to be a Judas and dump his staff to stay. Barnes told him to shove it up his 7'5 rectum. Then Barnes thanked the school and the fans with class as he left.

I'll be pulling for Barnes with the Vols due to his time and accomplishments here. But even moreso for how he left with dignity and honor when Lerch tried to weasel it out of him.

I'll learn to love Mack again. But not all the bitter has dissolved after how he aggressively clung on and took us down deeper with him. As pointed out above, looks like Augie is gonna pull a Mack on us.

Setting us back another year while Augie gives it another shot for his own sake, not cool. He said this team had IT before the season. Then he was blindsided by the fact that instead of a CWS quality team, the reality is they weren't even playoff contenders. Any coach still on his game wouldn't miss that publicly and wildly in expectations.

Even seemed to me at the end when the playoffs were slipping away, Augie was oblivious to it. Like he believed a light would pop on and they'd make a miraculous turn-around with mere weeks to go.

Since we aren't gonna win the conf tourney if we make it, I'm almost to the point I want Baylor to sweep us and make the case stronger that it's over for AG. Greater good and all.

 

yea Mack Brown took us further down, he played for the conference Championship, held two of the highest scoring teams in college football to what about 20 points? with Case McCoy as his quarterback? That was a helluva coaching job if you ask me........any other coach would have folded and been blown away the last two games including managing only what 59 yards in a bowl game against a 500 team? Your hatred for Mack Brown is beyond ridiculous....was it time for a change, yes, did he leave the cupboard bare, hardly the same studs on defense in 2014 were there in 2015, was there a string of bad luck recruiting between 2010 and 2013, yes that happens all the time in college football......your hatred really lowers the point you are trying to make in your posts........look back at 2014, Mack pulled a rabbit out of his hat and almost landed us in a BCS bowl game, again with Case McCoy as his quarterback.....

 

In 2013, despite losing starting QB David Ash for a majority of the season, Case McCoy stepped in and helped the Longhorns post a 7-2 Big 12 record that had them in position for the league title in the last game of the season under Applewhite's eye. The season pushed McCoy into the top 10 in career passing at UT with 3,689 yards, a list Ash ranks eighth on with 4,538. Overall, Applewhite guided the offense to an average 408.7 total yards, including 196.2 yards on the ground (No. 3 Big 12). It also set a UT single-game record with 715 total yards, including 359 on the ground and 356 in the air, against New Mexico State.

 

I think the quick hiring of Barnes by Tennessee, and our hiring of Smart tells me that something was in the works for some time; I'm not sure there's a "Smart" follow-up for Augie out there right now that would make a needed change something that will get done until Augie's contract is up.

 

I'm available. I can sit in the corner of the dugout and snooze my way out of food and booze hangover, too. And I'll do for a whole lot less than 1 million a year!

 

mja, I'm not saying Mack's final season brought us down further due to his 2013 season results. But it's widely accepted his hanging on those last years and allowing free reign of players within the program has caused us hell now and set us back in repairing this thing.

Just compare the drug testing numbers under Mack, Strong, and even Aggy. We tested something around 100 times total in a year with Mack. We are somewhere above 300 now under Strong, and Aggie is near 500. It's no coincidence Strong had to boot tons of players who couldn't shed their habits once they were held to stronger drug testing requirements.

I'm not part of the Mack hater club that developed in the end. What he did here with all the 10-win seasons (and 2 NC games) was awesome to experience and I do appreciate that a lot. It wasn't until after 2012 when I determined it was time for Mack to move on because he couldn't get us back to national prominence.

I still feel that was the right time. If we'd have pulled the trigger after 2012 season, we'd now be entering Year 3 under the next coach and likely set up for national relevance this year. Instead, we are in Year 2 under Strong and most realize we're likely not gonna make real waves until 2016.

Changing the coach is all about timing. Mack went a year late and it'll still cost us next year. If Augie stays, the same will occur, as it's postponing the inevitable.

BTW, If CS doesn't win 8 games this year, I'll disapprove of him for failing expectations. Even 7-6 would mean a 13-13 start. That would make Strong and David McWilliams the only coaches since 1937 Dana Bible who couldn't muster a winning record in two years here. With the high volume of returning talent from the 8-5 team he had to start with, not good enough.

 

Well, I think that Mack Brown had us on the right path. If Gilbert or Ash would have turned out halfway, we would have been much better then we were those years, anyway........was it time for a change in 2013 or 2012, I think it might have been.....who knows......

I don't think that marijuana is s huge distraction for teams other than getting in legal troubles, look at the later 90's early 00's Longhorns, some of those players it could be argued played better under that influence!!! lol

 

Ricky Williams says hello...

 

It's not a problem till it is, like the 2000 Cotton Bowl. Four players fail a drug test, including Kwame Cavil and Aaron Humphrey, two of your best players. They are sent packing back to Austin.

So Texas loses to Arkansas 27-6. It's hard to play well when your not suited up. You hurt yourself and your teammates.