Good Newz Kennels

Man, I just hope he doesn’t take that round “tug of war” thingy I saw on Thanksgiving night with with him. If there’s anything a great OL needs, it’s the strength to pull down a DL or LB when they are about to run over you on their way to the RB/QB.

Is Todd Wright Available during football season?

If true then that is a very solid move to remove him from S&C responsibilities.

However, I don’t like the notion of reassigning poor performers in the organization simply b/c you like them. That actually shows a deficit in leadership not a surplus.

I can understand how having really close friends on staff can make these things difficult for Mack but that’s what he is paid to do.

I agree but given what we think we know about Mack, this is a pretty momentous time.

i know a lot of happy ex players.

What a friend we have in Jesus…

That’s Mack’s 3 biggest under-performing cronies all gone in one year. As much as the 5-7 season sucked, I can thank it for that.

Great news if it pans out. A change in the S&C program is as important as at OC. Inching closer to my Christmas wish for a solid OC/OL/S&C combo.

Actually, Fat Dog would be a good fit in the Cleve role.

I used the word fit there. Ha ha ha ha!Ha ha ha ha!

I’m even greedier. I’m going for a brand, shiny new ST coach as well. This 5-7 season is the blessing that keeps on giving. We needed it and anything short of it wouldn’t have gotten the results. Thank God the Ags beat us. They can’t even win for winning.

Mad Dog would be a good fit in three Cleve roles.

Cleve would be a good fit in one of Mad Dog’s rolls.

Sailor Ripley said:
December 4th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
I agree but given what we think we know about Mack, this is a pretty momentous time.

100% agree

Huge news and the last “big” domino that needed to fall. It was time for Madden to be reassigned.

MD always looked like Mack’s personal bodyguard more than a S/C coach. The deadweight is finally being cut loose and Texas football is back in the saddle again.

The 5-7 season was worth it without question. Hope every team that beat us this season got their licks in while they could. They are going to be sorry. Texas is about to become the juggernaunt we all wanted and knew it could become.

Hire the right guys now.

I agree. The losing sucks right now, but it might be for the best. It is imperative we get the right hires though. I never thought we would be able to drop Davis and Mad Dog in the same year. Those two provided very little to the program.

I have no sympathy for Mack Brown in this instance. None. That his cronies have been the most obvious dead wood in this program for 13 years running is no one’s fault but his own. If this is tough for him emotionally, well, tough shit.

Hook ’em!!!

i’m not hearing anything about one more component i think we would all like to see addressed. what about the academic whiz-bang. i see no mention of him. have i miss somesing.

I’m laughing my ass off at all the Jesus news cut and pastes from the paying members at Hookem247. Burton assured me Muschamp wasn’t driving the train and he (Burton) had all the sources. Basically said Jesus was full of shit. He invited me to leave for arguing with him. Since then, Jesus has been breaking story after story while Burton admits he doesn’t have anything on the latest revelation. El mahico posted the Kennedy confirmation over there this morning, while Burton was sleeping. He said no one could push Brown around, and now we learn the big money guys told Powers and Dodds to push him around.

Things are looking up, life is good, and Fantake is still free.

oh, and regarding this years’ losses. i’ve celebrated them every one. was torqued that fau managed to lose to us, just in case that was needed.

Can we get Bill Little reassigned too?

Seriously, if all this shit pans out, Mack’s inner circle will have been gutted. At that point do we start referring to him as a figurehead? This really isn’t gonna be his staff anymore… I am not necessarily opposed to that; it is how the corporate world works and this is in a sense a business…

Mack’s biggest asset and his biggest liability is his loyalty/kindness. He has been able to recruit so well because he genuinely cares for the kids and the high school coaches but it also has blinded him to the need for change on his staff.

I bet this past week of letting go of his friends on the staff has been as hard on him as the results of this past season.

Agree completely Eyes.

Its Mack’s fault Texas was in this position. He put his friendship and comfort over what was best for not only The University of Texas but his players. It took Muschamp to get in his ear along with some power alumni for him to make these changes. Mack makes 5 million a year to make tough decisions and do what is best for the “company”.

If people think Mack would have done these on his own keep whistling by the graveyard. Thank you to the Texas brass and Will Muschamp. Wouldn’t surprise me if Major didnt get a few passing words in there as well.

SizzleTheft on 247 is now citing another pay site, Inside Texas, which says there will be a coaching staff meeting at 10:00AM tomorrow, and announcements are expected after the meeting.

I agree with Rich that Mack’s loyalty/people skill is simultaneously a strength and a weakness. When you get to where he is, personal qualities take on that double-edged sword quality.

I think the same is true of Stoops only the quality there is competetiveness. It pushes his program to great accomplishment but has bitten him in the butt when it was time to throttle back a bit.

All things considered, I will take Mack, foibles and all. After all, whoever is driving them, the needed changes seem to be unfolding.

Good riddance. If we have to endure 5-7 then major staff changes are a great end result.

Tim we are under performing because workouts are optional. When a player does get off his ass we don’t have the correct weight training program. Players become stiff an less agile with more time with mad dog. Someone alluded to it in another thread but the actually showed some drill we were doing and they started laughing, it had absolutely nothing to with football and making playes quicker. S&C was outdated at best

Also is Brian Davis going or staying?

My sources tell me our new s@c coach is from NC st

@memphizbell

this is a joke, right?

http://www.gopack.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/rice_todd00.html

just because we can’t hire todd wright away from rick barnes, doesn’t mean you go and hire a todd RICE.

How has Madden’s role as President of Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association impacted his duties at Texas? Is it a somewhat ceremonial position?

Should we also assume the following members of the Strength staff will be looking for work elsewhere?

Donnie Maib – Head Assistant Coach
Jesse Ackerman – Assistant Coach
Lee McCormick – Assistant Coach
Derrick Scott – Assistant Coach
Jeff Earls – Part time assistant Coach
Chase Fishback – Part time assistant Coach
Zach Margolis – Volunteer Graduate Asst.
Ryan Munson – Intern

So, is ransom going to think all of the new coaches suck too?

Tell me who they are and I’ll let you know.

Madden was the one I was waiting for, every bit as much as Greg Davis. S&C is critical and he wasn’t getting it done. I don’t give a shit if he was reassigned or not, I just want someone to bring the S&C program up to speed.

Mysterious Package hit on this earlier in the thread, but it’s next in line for me as well: Brian Davis has shit his pants as much as anyone on the staff. Players can’t produce if they aren’t in school and on the field. I’ll be watching for news on him in the next few days.

While I didn’t see the espn segment as I was at the game, hitting tires with a sledge is not a useless exercise by any means. Many world renowned strongman, powerlifters and strength coaches use it as a way to increase core strength and explosiveness. Now, that doesn’t mean I am sticking up for mad dog. In fact, I bet he only does that for gimmicks and changeups. I’d bet if we did more stuff like that we’d be better off than we are now.

Agreed, BigHorn. Hitting tires with a sledge is a great exercise.

“However, I don’t like the notion of reassigning poor performers in the organization simply b/c you like them. That actually shows a deficit in leadership not a surplus.”

Agreed. It’s also a waste of money, which should be spent on meritorious performers in the department instead of softening the blow on people who’ve earned an exit from their current job.

Would it be too much to hope the next S&C coach has a degree in physiology or kinesiology as well as some knowledge of nutritional and dietary science?

It’s easy to say “just get rid of them”. I work in a large investment bank and we move people around for second chances a lot and they often become stars.

I can see Madden doing well at a different position.

Forgive my ignorance as I am new here, but what is the problem with Mad Dog? In the past we have had the strongest and fastest guys on the field. So what has changed recently?

Gate—degrees in kinesiology can be about as meaningful as degrees in general studies. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a major with such enormous differences in quality from one school to the next. Many schools treat it as a diploma-mill program, and coaches steer academic liabilities into it as a major, just as they might with some of the other common football degrees. Other schools take it seriously.

Rats…Mad Dog was my best protege in the S&C world…

Seriously, I’d been told a couple of weeks ago that MD was going to get canned…because it came from the father of one of our players, who (the player) is not a happy camper these days, I didn’t pass it on…but where there’s smoke, I hope, in this case anyway, there’s fire…