Say the name Mack Brown to a Longhorn fan and you will get varied
reactions, some will remember the highs and some will remember the lows. The
real question is can Mack Brown still turn this thing around? Since 2009 Brown’s
last Championship run, the once great and proud Longhorns have went 26 and 18
still good for most college football teams but not for Texas. The 18 losses in
the past 4 years comparers very badly to the 26 losses he suffered in HIS 1ST
12 years at Texas. Most would say the path he is on is a very disturbing trend
that he can’t pull himself out of. Mack Brown with QB’s Vince Young and Colt
McCoy were able to give Texas 2 national championship appearances and went 1-1
during those runs, but recently his job as a talent evaluator/head coach has
come in to question.
Most notably Heisman winners Johnny Manziel and Robert
Griffin III both were recruits of Texas and both were not wanted for their QB
skills, Mack Brown wanted both to be in the defensive backfield. While they
could have been great on defensive chances are they would not have been Heisman
winners like they were at QB. True in recruiting nobody really knows what a kid
will do, it kinda of looks really bad when the kid you passed on turns out to
be a Heisman winner.
So who can restore buzz and excitement to the once great and
proud Longhorn nation? You could take a gamble on a young and talented assistant,
or you could go with a proven winner who has built programs and can win at
Texas. Enter Art Briles head coach of the #6 ranked Baylor Bears, Briles
started his coaching career at the University of Houston and has been able to
bring electric QB’s like Case Keenum and Robert Griffin to his programs and run
a dynamic offense. This season Briles is overseeing an offense that would make
the Oregon Ducks jealous, this year the Bears has failed to score at least 69 points
just once and is averaging 65 points a game. He isn’t just using the passing
game this season the running game has balled out too!
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