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Someone remind me: how bad were things really with Mackovic?

Really bad. Most of the Texas high school coaches hated him. Hurt us recruiting wise.

This gonna be another hit for recruiting

Did you see Case when he came in? He looks "prepared" to you? Again, Ash was moving the ball. Give him a chance to get it together.

I'm getting drunk. Maker's Mark FTW.

Take some fig newtons and dunk them in the Makers Mark. It's wonderful.

wholly crap just looked it up..Mack Brown 15yrs in the Big 12 - 2 Big 12 championships. Mackovic 2 yrs in Big 12 =1 big 12 championship....

Sorry, you turn the ball over 3 times, you don't deserve the chance to make it 4. That ain't good football.

Tell that to every great qb. It happens. It's what you do after the fact. Would you pull Manziel? Would you have pulled VY, Major, or Colt? Yeah...that's what I thought.

Alienated many of past Longhorn Nation and more. Poor, poor decision to replace one of the finest Def. Coaches in College Football history, Robert "Leon" Fuller for Gary Darnell. From a stout, top ranked 4--3 defenses to Porous 3--4 Darnel defenses.

"UT fans do understand -- "I'm not sure everybody understands how far we've come with this program and where we were coming from." -- UT head coach John Mackovic, Oct. 31, 1994

Coach Mackovic's comments were aimed at frustrated UT alumni, implying we don't know what we are talking about when we criticize his job performance. In response, here are a few things I and most of my fellow ex-students do indeed understand:

1) We understand that coach Mackovic has taken the best offensive talent in the Southwest Conference and molded it into the worst, most ill-conceived and boring unit since Fred Akers' 1983 squad;

2) We understand that coach Mackovic is on the verge of his third consecutive five-loss season and is no closer to having the program at a competitive level with Texas A&M than it was in 1991;

3) We understand that everyone in the country except for coach Mackovic can clearly see that James Brown should be his starting quarterback, and he should have been since the Rice game;

>>>>>4) We understand that coach Mackovic fired one of the finest defensive coordinators in the nation in Leon Fuller last January, and replaced him with the relatively inexperienced Gary Darnell, who has week in and week out fielded a unit that can only be described as an utter disgrace;

5) We understand that coach Mackovic has lost at least six games in three short years on coaching alone, and has successfully ended a 27-year winning streak against TCU and a 29-year winning streak against Rice, and has recorded the single worst loss to Texas Tech in the history of the rivalry;

6) We understand that coach Mackovic has failed for three consecutive weeks to properly prepare his team to play, and that his arrogant personality has caused him to lose the respect and loyalty of many players on the current Longhorn team;

8) And finally, we understand that if John Mackovic is still the head coach at UT in January, UT will end up with a second consecutive mediocre-to-poor recruiting class that will set the program back another three years.

Because we understand these things, and because chancellor William Cunningham, president Bob Berdahl and the board of regents have repeatedly shown that their one and only concern about the UT football program is how much money it generates, I would urge all ex-students of the University of Texas to send a letter to the university stating that they will withhold all funds of any nature from the university until the day that both Deloss Dodds and coach Mackovic have been fired. This is the only way UT fans can avoid another half-decade of what we have seen for the last three years. David Blackmon, Arlington."