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utsal said...

Here's my issue with the vitriol right now, nobody really knows what happens inside the program or why they are mad. I've got no issue with people being mad at the results, just try to understand that when you are spewing venom about Mack and the program, you likely have no idea what actually goes on inside the walls of Bellmont.

This post goes against everything that is said about Mack and why people don't like him. Most say he doesn't hold anyone accountable, he's soft, and I've even heard that he doesn't care about losses. Apparently, according to this post, not only does he hold his assistants accountable, he is too much of a hard ass asshole when things go bad.

Scipio's article is an opinion, a well reasoned opinion, yes, but it is in no way fact.

Personally, I was never overly impressed with Harsin as a play caller. I think he has schemed us into a few wins that we would not have had under Greg Davis (BYU '11, A&M '11), but I think his play calling has hurt us a few games (OSU '11, WVU '12) because he doesn't always stick with what is working.

Everything I have seen from Major Applewhite including personal appearances at both public and private lunches, the respect he has from other coaches (allegedly Muschamp wanted to take him, Greg Robinson took him, Nick Saban took him), every mod on every board's opinion of him, every player's tweet about him, his history recruiting, and his play when he was here says that he is ready to be the playcaller for Texas and I'm excited about that. I've never liked that his contemporaries Kingsbury and Heupel have been calling plays while he's been the running backs coach.

I'm not saying Harsin isn't a loss, but this is nothing like the Muschamp loss because a) Brian Harsin is no Will Muschamp and b) Major Applewhite is no Manny Diaz.

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Silky Johnson said...

1. There is no "vitriol" or venom. People are criticizing Mack and are becoming fed up with his lack of results and his excuses for those. Nobody needs to know what's going on inside the program to see what or who the real problem is. After 15 seasons of Mack Brown, we know.

2. Just because Mack chews out his assistants doesn't mean he isn't soft as a stick of butter in the Texas summer heat. Again, after 15 seasons, we know he's soft.

3. Mack laying into his coaches and undressing them further proves the fact that holds everyone else accountable except for himself. Overhauling the entire staff after 5-7 and throwing his coaches under the bus after Iowa State sort of jives with this as well. How can a good coach constantly hold everyone else accountable for repeated failures but refuse to look in the mirror?

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mdmost said...

I tend to believe articles like these when I can look at the evidence of the two most ambitious guys in our program under Mack both left in under 3 years of getting here. Both of these guys were described as tough, no non-sense coaches who had some fire to them. One left for about as good an opportunity as there is. The other left it seems on the first train he could jump onto to get out of Austin. Now contrast that with Greg Davis and others who stayed in the Texas program until they were forced out. It all starts at the top. It won't change until the persons at the top are gone.

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