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1. kevwun said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am

   Killebrew will be graded on the quality of his souffle.

2. Duane Akina said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 am

   I didn’t see any mistakes on the game film. We should burn it and move on.

3. Mockingbird said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 am

   Positions weren’t open before?

   Nice.

   Confirmation. Zero distortion.

4. kchorn04 said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 am

   Is Defensive Coordinator a starting position?

   And if anyone thinks that there will be one change to the A&M depth chart, then you haven’t been paying attention. On account that us morons don’t attend practices and all.

5. Groundhog Day said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:48 am

   USED CAR SALESMAN!! How many times have we heard this line of B.S.? Don’t you think it’s a little late, Mack?

6. EyesOfTX said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am

   Far be it from me to say I told you so, but…

   The more things change…

   About 2/3rds of the way down. He just got there a couple of months before I thought he would.

   Mack Brown has officially jumped the shark.

7. BrickHorn said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm

   If a pretend meritocracy can’t solve this team’s problems, nothing can.

8. Bartoncreek said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm

   They looked at the mistakes and did what exactly? I looked at the leaves in my yard yesterday. They are still there today. Sure enough, I looked at them and they just stayed there. Who would have thought that I would actually have to pick up a rake and do something? I don’t want to hear about looking at mistakes. They could watch the tape of any one of the 12 games this season and see the same fucking mistakes.

   Don’t look, Mack. Do something about it. For the love of God, please, I am begging you. Do something. I’ll give you hint, it all starts with you and your coordinators. Those mistakes are a direct reflection of you, Akina, Davis and the position coaches. Don’t talk about it, do something about it.

   I absolutely hate people that talk about problems instead of doing something about them. Little whiny bitches. DO SOMETHING.

   That is all.

9. Groundhog Day said:

   December 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm

   Mack is directly responsible for personnel decisions. Does anyone in their right mind believe that Akina had the final say on bobino, killebrew, and Derry? He also favors the philosophy we are now using on D which is read and react.

10. Hollisdude said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    The can grade them everyday, but I bet they won’t use red ink when they do. That would probably hurt someone’s feelings if they’re a senior or someone that chases down wide receivers hauling ass toward our endzone. No, I bet they use some kind of light purple ink to grade those sessions so that everyone remembers “we’re family”.

    I can hear the roiling laughter emanating all the way from Norman. God, sometimes we’re just vaginas.

11. BrickHorn said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    I looked at the leaves in my yard yesterday. They are still there today.

    Okay, fine. But did you look at every leaf in your yard? Because the comprehensiveness of the looking process is essential to its efficacy.

    Mack looked at every single damned mistake. Such thoroughness is invaluable.

12. McLovin said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    The leaves in your yard that have been there the longest deserve your loyalty over the ones that just fell.

13. HenryJames said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    rpongett filmed your yard, and he says there aren’t any leaves.

14. Redfoot said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Guys, Mack gets 10 wins a year, if that isn’t great coaching I don’t know what is. I’m so sick of the “FireMackBrown.com” crowd speaking for the majority of the fans who are loving every minute of the current regime.

15. Bob Stoops said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    I’m with you Redfoot.

16. Brent Venables said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Good call, Redfoot! Mack Brown keeps me employed.

17. Kevin Wilson said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Another vote for Brown and his coaching staff in the burnt orange.

18. BrickHorn said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    From rpongett’s clips and analysis of Hollisdude’s yard:

    “Red oak leaf falls slowly to weakside of trunk; acorn takes counter option sweep past low branch, following twig lead for 3 yards into soft spot between grass blades; forward progress stopped by topsoil with assist by limestone substratum.”

19. Dennis Franchione said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    Three cheers for Mack Brown. He alone enabled media hacks to employ the adjective “defiant” when describing my “resignation” from aggy.

    Imagine that . . . defiant Dennis!!!!! Thanks again Mack.

20. utstudboy said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Mack Brown has a better bowl record that Big Game Bob Stoops.

    No way. That can’t be.

21. Big Game Bob said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Let’s compare Holicotton records Mack.

    Not my fault, I am in the BCS every year.

22. Redfoot said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Thanks studboy. Maybe that will give these limp-wristed hacks something to chew on for awhile before they go back to lambasting the man that took us from a joke to two Rosebowls, and one MNC. And who has been there through thick and thin with Mack? Greg Davis, loyal friend, great coordinator. Can’t you remember those great plays he drew up against USC? Brilliantly, he devised routes that would keep the WR’s from breaking free, so that Vince would have to improvise and win the day for the valiant Longhorns. If that isn’t offensive genius, I don’t know what is.

23. Woody Bombay said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Forget the levaes - rpongett had his videocam pointed at the open bathroom window on the side of the house.

24. Bartoncreek said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    The leaves in my yard have created much debate and analysis. That is why I leave them there. To take the blame away from the real problem. The tree that allows the leaves to fall.

25. Bartoncreek said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Kchorn wonders “why the leaves don’t use the fullback more when,imo, the leaves are, as wasted by, imo, falling without recourse, as to the respective, imo, use of the fullback as a weapon, not literally of course, but rather figuratively, imo.”

26. Clap Brown said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Mack and Greg became great coaches when they stopped coaching Vince

27. Hornius Emeritus said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    I’ll rake Bartoncreek’s leaves. Then I’ll roll them up and smoke them.

28. kevwun said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Bartoncreek, that was very good. However, you did forget to place several words in quotes that didn’t need them.

29. RomaVicta said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    I suppose Vince was the wind that lifted the leaves into the Rose Garden where they smothered the foreign badger and then stole the sun from the native fauna, fauna renowned as the greatest fauna of all time.

    “Who recruited the wind?” whisper the everwatching shingles from the roof. “All magic” answers the wise old owl in the tree. “And it comes seldom along.”

30. DBH said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    “Some will be graded on a curve shaped like Rashad Bobino’s pursuit angles. Others will receive extra credit for their attendance record over four years because ninety percent of Texas football is just showing up.”

    I just wish a real journalist would show up for one of MackDaddy’s press conferences and call him on this bullshit.

31. Bartoncreek said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Your “right”, kevwun. I forgot.

    One more year like this, Emeritus, and I may have to start smoking some tree myself.

32. McLovin said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    Badger? Wolverine?

    Ah, who cares? Yankee creatures regardless.

33. Tyler Durden said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    Mack Brown is completely full of shit. It’s so bad I often wonder why he feels the need to comment on stuff like this. At this point, I view him as some kind of weird combination of Bill Cliton and George Bush, 100% full of shit.

34. jimmyjazz said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    This thread is veering dangerously close to a Rush song.

35. Zyzzyballubah said:

    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    All jobs open? Does that include those of the head coach and both coordinators?

36. ShocktheNation said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 8:57 am

    None of this shit below matters as long as we win our tenth game this month and keep that streak rolling. Then comes our most physical spring ever, Colt puts on weight, more exotic blitzes put in, jobs up for grabs, a few sonnets by Bill Little and some people will actually think things will change from the norm next season. Or what is even more frustrating is the people that are cool with it. This is us compared to our biggest fucking rival over the span of the last decade.

    Mack in 10 years:
    1 National Title(05)
    1 Big XII Title(05)
    2-0 in BCS games
    3-6 vs Bob Stoops

    Bob in 9 years
    1 National Title
    2 other appearances in championship game
    5 Big XII Titles
    2-3 in BCS with another game coming in Jan
    6-3 vs Mack Brown

37. utstudboy said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 11:33 am

    You conveniently forgot about Mack and Bobs bowl records

    Don’t forget the NCAA penalties as well

38. Big Game Bob said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Me:

    Holicotton 2-0
    Irrelevant Bowl my first season 0-1
    BCS Non-Title Game Bowls 1-1 (1 pending)
    BCS Title Game 1-2

    Mack

    Holicotton 3-3 (1 pending)
    BCS Non-Title Game w/o VY 0-0
    BCS Title Game w/o VY 0-0
    Irrelevant Bowl last season 1-0
    BCS Non-Title Game w/ VY 1-0
    BCS Title Game w/ VY 1-0

39. utstudboy said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    Your score against USC 19-55

40. HenryJames said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    His score against UT: 63-14 and 65-13.

    You really want to go down this road?

41. Macanudo said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    “Maybe that will give these limp-wristed hacks something to chew on for awhile before they go back to lambasting the man that took us from a joke to two Rosebowls, and one MNC.”

    I think we’re kind of back to being a joke again.

42. Groundhog Day said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    UT Studboy,

    Texas should be a top 5 program year in and year out and right now we are not. We didn’t beat a top 25 team all year and lost to two terrible football teams this year one of which was pasted by any decent team they played and also had a lame duck head coach.

    I can accept the argument this year that it was a rebuilding year because it probably was that kind of year, but two things stick out that really bother me because people like you make excuses every year. 1) Why didn’t we play the younger, better, more talented players to get them ready for next year? and 2) Let’s compare our rebuilding year this year with OU’s rebuilding year last year and our year last year.

    2006 was not a rebuilding despite losing VY. We had 4 Senior Lineman 3 of whom are NFL players, 1 senior RB who is starting in the NFL splitting carries with a 1st round pick, a healthy stud WR with a bunch of good upperclassmen complimentary players as wideouts and a young pup at TE. Defensively, we had two senior DE’s who are playing in the NFL and two junior DT’s who will be on NFL rosters one of whom will be a high round draft pick. We also had 3 NFL DB’s all of whom are starting as rookies in the NFL. The linebackers were the same as this year but they have bled for the program and dominate the walkons in practice so no change needed there.

    Last Year’s OU’s rebuilding year saw a bunch of sophomores and a converted WR play QB take home the CC. Before you point to Colt getting hurt just remember that OU lost one of the great running backs to enter the NFL in a long time midway through last season.

    Get a little realistic Studboy, these coaches aren’t very good and Akina has been an absolute failure. I would compare Mack to Phat Phil as they are probably a rung below the top 10 coaches in the country.

    Let’s hope Mack finds another Secretariat so we can all pump away at how great our coaches are. The university, city, resources, facilities, and recruiting area lends itself to being a dominant program. We are not dominant.

43. utstudboy said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    I think we need to improve to get where we should be - don’t care about or for Bob Stoops - he is not relavent to what we need to do. We need to improve regardless of Bob Stoops and what he does.

    I am just not going to think that Bob Stoops is the end all be all of college coaches - as a result I give those who have too much man love for Bob Stoops a little grief.

    Lets get off Stoops and think about UT.

44. BRAGGonUT said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    GroundHog Day, I think Top 5 year in and year out is not being realistic on a long term basis for any program. And yes, I realize that USC can claim that for the last 5 years.

    Given our inherent advantages, I think consistently Top 10 with a chance to win it all every now and again should be our benchmark. One would think that means we win a conference championship every 2-3 years too. One would also think that means in the discussion for a BCS bowl game every year.

    That’s why Alamo and Holiday and borderline Top 20 in b2b years after winning it all seems like a nut punch.

45. Holy Cow said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    I’d sooner believe a single amish woman saying her legs are open prior to the wedding night than mack brown saying all jobs are open.

46. Groundhog Day said:

    December 4th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    Bragg,

    I think we generally agree. A consistent top 5-10 team wins its conference more than once in 10 years. What Pete Carroll has done is hard to replicate and what Bowden did was remarkable when he finished in the top 5 14 years in a row. And Bowden was not a good X and O guy. He stockpiled talent and that’s what we thought Brown would do.

    The fact is Brown is a little overrated when it comes to recruiting and he is certainly not a good game day coach, but he also has bad assistants (I think bobby kennedy is a good coach as the WRs do all the unnoticed little things).

    Studboy, I don’t treat Stoops any differently than any other coach. I just point to OU to compare because we are in the same conference and we play them every so it is easy to point out differences in the programs.

    Can I accept a rebuilding year? Yes. Do I think we should win every game? No. Do I think we should have more than one CC? Yes. Should we be in contention for more NC’s? Yes. What happened this year makes last year that much more unacceptable.

47. ShocktheNation said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    “You conveniently forgot about Mack and Bobs bowl records”

    I can’t believe people seriously want to argue Mack vs Stoops. This is ridiculous. Who gives a shit about these second tier bowl games that he wins? This is the 4th time in 8 years we are playing in the freaking Holiday Bowl. Texas was lucky to beat 6-6 Iowa in the Alamo Bowl last year.

    Do some of you really not see that serious changes need to be made on this staff? OU has just won the Big XII the last two years, has beaten us 6 out of the last 8, and is cleaning up on top Texas recruits this upcoming year moreso than we have seen since Mack has been in Austin. They are not going anywhere. Texas needs to upgrade their staff.

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