re: Texas reminds me of Alabama before Saban...

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Texas isn't as much of a shitshow y'all claim it is.

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Seriously.

Les Miles
Gus Malzahn
Urban Meyer
Chris Peterson
Jimbo Fisher
David Shaw
Bill O'Brien
Art Briles
James Franklin

I can go on...would have Texas at an elite, "top 4" level within two years. That program and team could be turned around within a year, two max. At Alabama, it took a lot more time.

Not to mention, we didn't have a single person drafted by the NFL after Saban's first season. Let that sink in.

But he forgot about all of that.

Mack is horrible at evaluating talent. He has now missed on three straight Heisman winners, all of whom desperately wanted to play QB at Texas.

eta - Links are Germans, but just re-iterating my point that he is horrible at evaluating talent.
Jameis Winston's dream school was Texas

Mack recruited RG3 and Johnny Manziel as DBs, didnt think they were good enough to play QB

I agree. It's looking like Texas is on an real, actual #Decline with Aggie doing "ok" in the SEC.

Difference between UT and UA being there is no Saban coming in off the clouds to save them. They will have to find their "Saban" or they're going to be a mirror of the other orange UT, imo.

Mack biggest problem is developing talent. Lots of 3 star players go to SEC schools develop into studs. Not all turn into JFF or the Honey Badger, but some do. UT is just not developing their players. They get plenty of talent, Mack just doesn't do anything with it.

Agree with you 100% Scoop or LSU before Saban, alumni infighting screwed up administration etc. After we got rid of Charley Mac we were Ok for the Arnsperger years and a mess the rest of them.

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Overall I think Bama fans handled winning 3 of 4 as well as one could expect. Would guess many other fanbases would've been more unbearable.

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Still get the feeling that most Bama fans feel NC's are a birthright. It's pretty off-putting.

ETA: And that was even before they got Saban.

The difference is that they have coaching stability and no NCAA sanctions to deal with. There's no reason they should be where they are

For the record: Mike DuBose got the job because he played here and was a long time assistant here. The fans believed you could only coach at Bama if you had deep ties to the school. They blew up the athletic departments fax machines when Stallings retired demanding DuBose be hired.

Mike Shula was hired because Bama had slim pickings to choose from with their NCAA sanctions and because Croom couldn't interview well.

Did your program have married assistant coaches fricking chubby trainers while at bowl meetings?

Nasty old men sexual harassing ladies and end up costing your school $400k in hush money?

Your national championship winning track coach banging her athletes?

Same track coach now suing you for $1 million because of sexual and racial discrimination?

Your senile old athletic director completely bumble during conference realignment?

Same athletic director basically completely turn any non-texas fans in the state against you with that 'We are the jones' bullshite and stick his foot in his mouth with 'our worst years are better that Missouris best years'?

Is your largest donor (has statue in the stadium right next to Royal's stadium and the field is named after him) also your coach's personal lawyer and threatening to withhold money if you fire him?

Nah. I promise you while from the outside it looks like yall were about the same, their athletic department is in shambles. Its run by clowns who can't apparently keep their mouths shut and just let things play out. They have systemic problems that they need to completely clean house to fix.


UT posters said the same damn things. What a freaking mess.