$1,000 bet!

[HornsUp]

Not an insider. Some are wondering about the Mack situation with negotiations, coaching the last game, and staying on as an assistant to the president.

I'd be willing to bet $1,000 he steps away completely the day after our hire. He's just trying one last time to make sure certain people don't replace him. Watch. He'll walk the day after the announcement, and he'll do it with a smile if he had an influence.

 

[cmcddg81]

Nothing would surprise me anymore with regard to Mack.

 

[GetHooked]

I hope we hire Saban and he walks away with his tail between his legs.

He stuck around too long.

 

[JimsTexas]

Not an insider. Some are wondering about the Mack situation with negotiations, coaching the last game, and staying on as an assistant to the president.
I'd be willing to bet $1,000 he steps away completely the day after our hire. He's just trying one last time to make sure certain people don't replace him. Watch. He'll walk the day after the announcement, and he'll do it with a smile if he had an influence.

MB can't get get out of Austin for me. I don't care if I ever see him again. A couple years ago I was taking up for MB and believed he was a great man not any more. My friends y'all have a great weekend.

 

[Juan]

I think it will all feel different if we win the MNC in the next 3-4 years.

Winning has a way of making everyone forgive and forget.

 

[JimR]

MB has not changed. This is who he has been the entire time.

 

[HookemHorns]

MB has not changed. This is who he has been the entire time.

I understand that now. I remember having disagreements with you over Mack in the past. I now know that I was wrong.

 

[hornrush]

MB has not changed. This is who he has been the entire time.

Very true Jim. Adversity often brings out a person's TRUE character or the true character that a person is.

Hook'em!

 

[Horn46]

Mack has seen his legacy possibly going from the most wins in UT history and a statue next to DKR to....being asked to leave and everyone turning on him because of his selfishness. This can't end fast enough....

 

[alonghorn72]

If there is any validity to the stories of Mack being the ultimate cock blocker or the potential lawsuit, then I will forever have lost all respect for the man. I was one of the mans biggest supporters. While I am still thankful for what he has done for the University, if recent events are forcing his true colors out and exposing his selfishness, I will be the one holding the door for him on his way out of Austin.

 

[Anubis]

Mack Brown helped build back a program that is now the wealthiest in the country by far and generates over $100M a year. Yet here people want to defend folks who behaved completely unethically and probably illegally, in violations of commitments of The University to Mack Brown. Mack has contributed far more to the University than he'll ever get back. It's a shame folks can't recognize and give credit to that.

 

[Manzana Blanca]

I think it will all feel different if we win the MNC in the next 3-4 years.Winning has a way of making everyone forgive and forget.

You can forgive, but not forget. In my opinion , people like Mack Brown you keep at arms length.....you may be civil to them,but you always keep in mind his prior actions and base your dealings with him accordingly. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me! ---- (Not that I ever have had the opportunity to been his friend.....but ,if after all of this, even if the opportunity ever presented itself...I would decline...but then I have never been a sickophant.

 

[BiggUggly]

If there is any validity to the stories of Mack being the ultimate cock blocker or the potential lawsuit, then I will forever have lost all respect for the man. I was one of the mans biggest supporters. While I am still thankful for what he has done for the University, if recent events are forcing his true colors out and exposing his selfishness, I will be the one holding the door for him on his way out of Austin.

Mack Brown has shown himself to be a person of low character. Any person who causes a former player to lose his job because that Lifetime Longhorn had the audacity to make a statement with which that person disagrees is a sorry puke of a human being.

It has long been known that Mack was thin skinned, but to take a man's livelyhood is beyond chickenshit.

That is only one example of many that should have demonstrated to everyone that Mack's "family atmosphere" was valid only so long as you do not cross the emperor.

Mack Brown is not a man.

 

[seahawkhorn]

Mack Brown helped build back a program that is now the wealthiest in the country by far and generates over $100M a year. Yet here people want to defend folks who behaved completely unethically and probably illegally, in violations of commitments of The University to Mack Brown. Mack has contributed far more to the University than he'll ever get back. It's a shame folks can't recognize and give credit to that.

I think you're giving one man, way too much credit.

 

[Anubis]

Hah! "If we win the MNC in the next 3-4 years".

That's exactly the insanity of the Texas torch and pitchfork crowd. Everyone thinks we can just buy our way into national championships. Wag $100M guaranteed at Nick Saban and NC will be wrapped up and put under the tree by Santa Clause.

The only thing fans will get for $100M is a chance to be laughed at by folks paying a lot less to get the same results. Kinda like rushing out to buy Apple stock right about now.

 

[Anubis]

I think you're giving one man, way too much credit.

I give the man credit for breaking a 30 year football drought, taking us to two national championship contests, a heck of a lot of wins . . . But most of all, running an honorable program all the while. No massive scholarship over signing, no cloud of paid players and connections to the recruiting underworld following him around.

It was no doubt time for a change at Texas. But the way it was handled, by folks within Texas, was a real shame. What Mack provided to Texas football should not be diminished.

 

[Manzana Blanca]

Mack Brown helped build back a program that is now the wealthiest in the country by far and generates over $100M a year. Yet here people want to defend folks who behaved completely unethically and probably illegally, in violations of commitments of The University to Mack Brown. Mack has contributed far more to the University than he'll ever get back. It's a shame folks can't recognize and give credit to that.

Oh , I give him credit for what he did...he did a lot .....and he has been handsomely compensated for what he did....If he is basing his actions on what contact Hicks had with his agent ,that still is not justification for what he has been pulling the last couple of weeks! The agreement was : a share of the Big 12 title and a BCS birth.....he didn't do that! Also, what right does he have deciding who can follow him? This is what happens when one man becomes bigger than the university!!

 

[hornag]

I give the man credit for breaking a 30 year football drought, taking us to two national championship contests, a heck of a lot of wins . . . But most of all, running an honorable program all the while. No massive scholarship over signing, no cloud of paid players and connections to the recruiting underworld following him around.
It was no doubt time for a change at Texas. But the way it was handled, by folks within Texas, was a real shame. What Mack provided to Texas football should not be diminished.

Well said, Manzana Blanca.

 

[Anubis]

Oh , I give him credit for what he did...he did a lot .....and he has been handsomely compensated for what he did....If he is basing his actions on what contact Hicks had with his agent ,that still is not justification for what he has been pulling the last couple of weeks! The agreement was : a share of the Big 12 title and a BCS birth.....he didn't do that! Also, what right does he have deciding who can follow him? This is what happens when one man becomes bigger than the university!!

Assuming Hicks was the only person who violated Mack's contract, and The University only failed to manage Hicks properly, why would Mack not be entitled to correction of the injuries due to that violation? Why should Mack be the only person obligated by an honor code, one that Hicks thumbs his nose at, and thus abandon the long capitalist tradition of negotiation in business? You unhappy with every coach that negotiates with The University? How about Saban, he's apparently negotiated his way up to $100M, does that piss you off? (it will after he loses!)