Racism at UTx (white coaches vs. black coaches)

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Tell me about Coach 1's winning season...what was the record and when during his tenure did it happen? The fact that he had one winning season vs zero is significant.

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Tell me about Coach 1's winning season...what was the record and when during his tenure did it happen?

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7-5 during year 1.

Year 2 was 4-7
Year 3 was 5-6

Oh it's real

Texas jumped on the opportunity for the hot up and comer with extensive Texas ties.

Had Herman not been available, good chance they stuck with Strong another year.

Pretty competent job by their administration, Alleva could learn alot

What?

Not much doubt about it. Firing Charlie Strong after 3 seasons was basically the same thing Notre Dame did with Ty Willingham.

Ty Willingham was fired after 3 years and a 21-16 record. Charlie Weiss replaced him. Notre Dame came out of the gate strong under Weiss and he got a huge raise and a 10 year contract extension after only coaching 7 games at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame was still paying him 5 or 6 years after he took over Kansas after ND fired him.

Strong cleaned house and started from scratch. Texass started the most freshmen and sophomores of any P5 team this year. Strong was never really embraced by the racist alums and Red McCombs was very vocal about not supporting Strong before he even arrived in Austin.

Race played a huge role in getting rid of Strong this year. If he was white he would still be the coach at texass. No doubt about that.

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Race played a huge role in getting rid of Strong this year. If he was white he would still be the coach at texass. No doubt about that.

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just no.

The checkbooks were mad and stayed mad because they loved Mack.
Herman is Macks guy, the checkbooks will return.

Green is the only color in play here

This is bs. I live in Austin, I am fairly close to the program, and have lots of friends that are big fans.

Race has not been an issue in Strongs tenure. Hell the fact he is married to a white woman barely made a blip in Austin. Texas (especially central Texas) doesnt have the same race issues you find across states in the South.

Charlie's issues are all his own. He didnt win. He put a black eye on Mack Browns tenure by kicking Macks guys off the team. A lot got booted just for smoking pot. He cut access the big cigar boosters are used to. He didnt do the social circuit around town. He didnt glad hand anybody. Lastly he never could build fan support because of the losses. It was pitiful seeing 60k in a 100k stadium.

Tldr: Race didnt have shite to do with Charlie being fired. He didnt win and didnt fill the stadium. An opportunity to get Herman was passing them by and they jumped on it.

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Racism at UTx

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Look that facts are Strong's Texas teams have sh*t the bed and that can't be denied, so it is easy to point to his record as the reason he was fired. But unfortunately for Strong what happened to him at Texas was basically the perfect storm and he got caught up in it.

If the LSU job hadn't opened, which is one of the few jobs that Herman wanted, along with the fact that Herman's dream job was UT and the fact that the boosters felt that if Herman did go to LSU the chance of pulling him from LSU if he was successful was going to be difficult. So by Texas sh*tting the bed this year did Strong in, it is literally that simple. Racism didn't play a part in this, Strong's record in his first 3 years did and the fact that one of the hottest young coaches "that has coached in Texas for 10years" in college football would have gone to LSU if Texas didn't pull the trigger.