re: Mack Brown To SMU?

While there's *some* truth to that, it's mostly historical revisionism.

Those highly ranked kids Texas was landing were also wanted by everyone else. They had offers from A&M, OU, LSU, Alabama, OSU, USC, and chose Texas. So to accept that they were all a bunch of scrubs who just got inflated rankings for being UT commits, we'd also be saying that EVERY other big school around was wrong too. That's too big of a stretch. Were they somewhat overrated? Yeah, I think Ketch did overrate them to some degree, but overall they still had a shite ton of talent everyone else wanted and should've won more than they did.

Where Mack DID bomb HUGE in recruiting particularly near the end was at QB. That was a mega big contributor to his fall.

That, and the fact that he/his staff is/were terrible developers of talent. They became notorious within the NFL for producing soft-arse players that hadn't progressed much in terms of fundamentals.