re: UPDATE: Info on possible Texas Coaching Search

Malzahn would be perfect... he realizes auburn isn't a final stop job. There's no stability there for him long term, and he will never have the complete control he wants (thanks to boosters) at Auburn.

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Assuming Mack Brown is out at end of season, who do you think replaces him?Texas could outbid the hell outta Bama or AU dpfor a coach like Saban or Malzahn

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that is not exactly the way it works. it is more complicated. sure, the big schools outbid the smaller schools but once you get in the upper ranges there are more considerations. a schools image is very important and if tejas or auburn or bama throw a number that is ridiculously high out there, there are academic consequences. to "mortgage the university" as one poster put it is not an option. matzahn is in for a huge raise and probably will get as much as tejas would offer or close to it. as far as the longhorn network goes it is a dismal failure and looks to remain that way. and if it works, it will be repeated by other schools. while tejas has a huge endowment, largely because of texas oil money, paying sports coaches insane amounts of money from this endowment is a no no (as it should be,imo). the endowment is for EDUCATION. tejas boosters, just like elsewhere are the ones ponying up. could tejas boosters really outbid bama or auburn boosters? sure, just look at the numbers of them; texas has 26 million fricking people. but they won't pay over a certain amount and bama and auburn can hang. for example, if tejas boosters go all in and offer saban 25 million per year what do you think that would do to their university's image. hell, the president should resign; make a statement. this is a fricking college! the longhorn network and their outgoing AD, Dodds, has already given them a black eye nationally and I think winning an outrageous bidding war would make them look like a desperate street whore to the academic community in the country.