re: If Mack comes back, Texas will be worth watching

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The entire athletic department is an utter chaos this afternoon after the events of the last 24 hours and I thought you guys might appreciate an update from inside the walls. People don't know what to do or what's going to happen, but until yesterday it was 100% established that Mack Brown would be retiring at a press conference that was scheduled for today. How do I know that? Because I was asked to attend. Not only that but I'm on an email chain that originates from a member of the BOR and he informed those of us in this email list that that Brown was stepping down and that there would be a new coach in place by the end of next week.

So what happened? Mack is what happened.

As someone that walks the halls of Bellmont Hall every day, I can inform you with 100% certainty that the discussion this week that Mack lost his **** after the media reports got out that he was resigning. A number of people in the department were told that the banquet was going to be dedicated to Mack and Deloss which is why last night was so uncomfortable. My seat at last night's banquet was a few tables over from where Mack and Sally were sitting and the tension in the room was so thick that I thought were going to suffocate. My wife walked up to Sally last night before it all started and said hello but Sally just kept on walking. I've never seen her like that until last night. Now nobody knows what's going to happen. We just know that it is really uncomfortable and one of the highest level donors in the room last night nearly walked out of the room when he saw the Saban news on his phone. According to someone at his table, he swore that he would help burn everyone to the ground. In talking with a few friends over breakfast today, he's not alone. There are a lot of very unhappy high level donors today and I can only imagine the kind of hell that Steve Patterson is living today because this is not what he came here for.

Also, the current members of the coaching staff are at the end of the road. They feel like they have been left hanging with their balls on the chopping block and it is very likely that Mack will have to replace both coordinators and multiple assistants if he wants to come back for another season. They are not going to stick around if they have options and I would expect to start hearing rumors of defections very soon.

All of this happened because of Mack Brown's ego and his refusal to accept his role in any failures that he has created. He is still the coach today because he will not let anyone push him out, especially not Chip Brown. I have not talked to one single person that actually knows what will happen next, but a number of friends who collect paychecks from Bellmont plan on encouraging their friends attending the game in San Antonio to create a "scene worse than the one with Chris Simms in 2001". That was actually said today outloud by someone from the Foundation department today ay breakfast. Those at the table this morning at Kerby Lane all agreed to my astonishment.

Bill Powers played the BOR like a fiddle and by the time they regroup, he'll simply walk off into retirement knowing he screwed everyone who threatened his viability for the last year. I wish I had encouraging words for you today but the program is being
held hostage by a single man's ego and it might be held hostage until it
gets so ugly that his ego no longer matters.

Thanks Mack. You have truly lived up to everything anyone has ever said about you behind closed doors. Petty, insecure, rotten, mean, vindictive, selfish and delusional. All of those apply.

Our university is in serious trouble if all of this stands.

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