Mack Brown was a better bowl coach than Bob Stoops. Whether or not DKR, Bo Schemblecher, Woody Hayes or Bob Stoops are better or worse than coaches overall than Mack Brown is irrelevant to Mack being a better bowl coach than Bob Stoops.
Bowl do matter. They affect your final ranking more than conference championships. The bad bowl record may be why, unlike Mack Brown, Bo Schembechler never won a national championship. Meanwhile, Nick Saban has proven you can win a national title without winning your conference. Hell, Bob Stoops played for one despite getting killed by Kansas State in the Big 12 championship game. The conference title was meaningless that year.
@zuckercanyon Tom Herman tried to use Buechele, a pro style QB, as a running QB. Meanwhile, Mack Brown is a bad coach because he recruited Vince Young, recruited the best players, got a great defense coordinator, implemented the spread, decided to run the offense in the most successful manner (letting vince be vince) and finally knocked off a loaded, Pete Carroll led team in the Rose Bowl.
If Tom Brady was so great, how come he lost two super bowls to the Giants?
If Lebron James was so great, how come he has lost the NBA finals so many times?
If Bob Stoops was so great, how come he won the exact same number of national titles as Mack Brown?
Arguing any national title winning football coach or someone who won 244 games is not great is just foolish. Who are they not great compared to? Other elite coaches? The fact is only two coaches have won a national title at UT. DKR and Mack Brown. They are the two winningest coaches in school history. If Mack Brown did not know Xs and Os, he would never made it as far as Tulane in his career much less Texas.
Meanwhile, everyone talks about how great Hal Mumme is at Xs and Os, but what did he ever win?
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