re: Charlie Strong facing a power struggle already in hiring his people

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Might be. They will be stabbing him in the back at every opportunity.

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Yep if you don't think Red will do everything he can to oust Charlie and get who ever it is he wants in there you are daft. We all know he won't get the guy he wants but he will wreck shite trying to.

I feel sorry for Strong but Texas is finished as a national power as long as this keeps up.

Anyone that pushed this Saban to Texas tripe needs professional help.

i have an odious feeling that Charlie Strong is going to be a rich Rodriguez.

Strong will be fine if he wins. Frankly it will be refreshing to measure a coach by wins rather than how good of friends he is with the right boosters.

Lots of piling on by people that have no clue about hiring for a State of Texas job. Everyone has to interview, every job has to be posted and there is always a mandatory delay. I am all about hammering Texas when warranted, but this is just people trying to pile on because they want to.

The push back seems to be by the AD over the OC. The former OC from Louisville is not really the caliber of coach that UT can get away going after and it is the AD's job to remind Strong of that. There is a difference between having a blank check and bringing in those that the coach is comfortable with after looking at the best possible choices vs. taking those that the coach is comfortable with from his previous staff.

Lets not forget that this is pretty much a bottomless pit as far as funding goes and bringing in the UL OC is not going to cut it from both a flash hire perspective for recruiting and from the quality of hire from the view point of OC's available industry wide. Strong's DC has the chops due to performance and Strong's defensive pedigree. He doesn't have that luxury on the offensive side of the ball.

But therein lies the problem for Coach Strong. Mack Brown proved you can survive on so-so results if you handle the politics right at Texas.

That means Strong gets a much shorter leash than he would have otherwise out the gate- much less than Saban or even a more political coach like Dabo. So he needs to win very soon, no opportunity for him to do a rebuilding project if that is what is needed (might not be).

But he is a good coach, he might knock it out the park early on.

He wanted to bring in Shawn as his OC and was shot down. He is going to get to hire whoever he wants from two approved candidates.

No way he gets 4 years if he has 1 losing record he is gone.

Looking at OSU OC Mike Yurcich is so meh.

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No way he gets 4 years if he has 1 losing record he is gone.

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I think year 3 will be critical, people are going to expect a conf championship by then, fair or not (I think it's fair). But if the trend is still positive he'll be fine. A losing record will be considered a meltdown and will cause him a problem, as it should any new coach.

I'm sure this is the case at more schools than we think. In this case it happens to be at one of the biggest jobs in CFB and has come with controversy (i.e. Red McCombs comments) , probably not going to mean a thing long term once the hires are made. I doubt even Nick Saban is the 100% dictator at Bama. There were sexual assault/harassment issues among the previous Texas staff, and I'm sure there is some input from people at Texas about the environment and what type of guys have been known to work.