John Kocurek @ SB Nation thinks so and I think he's on to something! Best article I have read in quite a while. Mack Brown and Texas Longhorns football are creatures of habit
I assume that you posted a link to the article because you believe that they is. Hopefully the article makes its point with better grammar.
I don't know who John Kocurek is. But this seems like someone without about as much insight as I have talking about what he thinks* the problem is. I don't have a problem with opinion pieces, and FWIW he might be spot on, but his opinion carries about as much weight as mine does. Still worth the read if for no other reason than its the off-season and its football related.
More age crap again. "Since you are in your 30s or 40s,..." Well, I'm not. The writer is a bitter old man in the making.
And now that our team has matured, we can sit back and watch Texas (the old fossil) beat several teams running the new-jack systems he praises as the end-all, be-all. BTW, ever heard of a thing called defense? Most of these schools are like playing against wind. I suppose while they are practicing their entire playbook the starting defense is throwing horseshoes. Alabama doesn't run an offense anything near those schools mentioned and they are by far the most dominant program of the decade. LSU doesn't either and they seem to be in MNC equation almost every year. Hell, LSU rarely even has a QB that can complete a forward pass. Some great points made in the article, but the premise and most supports are littered with big holes and major exceptions. Nice try, Johnny-come-lately.
Yep, the author of that post seemed to have a hypothesis he was determined to prove true. In so doing he actually refuted his own argument a couple of times. The crux of his theory is two-fold - 1) We need to wed ourselves to a certain style of football to succeed. -Nahhh There are certainly teams that have a certain flavor of football they excel at, but for every Oregon there is an OU whose teams seem to go through cycles based on their personnel. Good coaches can adapt their playbook to the people they have. His underlying point that Mack is washed up may be true. It just happens that going to a play-action power run game in 2010 was the most non-sensicle coaching decision Mack could have made at that time based on personnel we had. Its not that Mack should have to wed himself to a brand of football. But knowing what he wants or how to get there are two different things. 2) practices are not up-tempo enough. Too diverse of playbook too... -Does anyone really know how much differently our practices and our playbook's diversity are from those schools he compares us too. At any rate If going more up-tempo in practice and shortening the playbook is all it takes then I could be a .5 million a year coach. -Also, WVU hit their ceiling about the time they beat our over-rated ***, so mentioning them over over and over again along with OSU kind of discredits his point. It was the defenses who allowed all the scoring in that game and if Diaz had the defense the least bit prepared we would have outscored them. So what's his point? That Mack should have been able to score 49 points instead of 45 on that day if only?