Opinions Please……….

[Mountainman]

Question: Why can’t Texas win?????

The Longhorns appear to have it all…….. big University, unlimited financing, facilities second to none, gobs of fans and supporters, players with more stars than the Milky Way and have gone through more coaches and staffs than shoppers at Walmart, and yet they just don’t win. It’s a mystery to me.



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[Spence]

Too many cools in the kitchen. Cools being boosters. Sometimes it takes patience and boosters don't seem to have it. Especially at Texas.

[Mountainman]

Could be, if they don’t have an athletic director who can keep the wannabes or has beens or never weres off the coaches that’s a big problem.

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[Spence]

Ohio State has a group of guys who run the football program over Gene Smith. Smith runs the day to day stuff, but these guys lay the foundation for how the program works. They work as a group and do not publicly buck each other. It has to work that way. They are the big money guys. The Schottensteins amd the Wexners among others. They don't fight each other publicly like Texas.

Michigan did the same thing when they hired Rich Rod. Not that he was a bad coach, he just went against their business model. They fixed it with Hoke, he got fired because they weren't patient. Harbaugh was the same way, except they realized they weren't doing better than him.
Michigan's problem wasn't the coaches. At least in an x's and o's way. It was the fact that they couldn't recruit Ohio the way they always had. Tressel threw a blanket over Ohio. Meyer kept it there to a point.
John Cooper was a good recruiter and a good football coach, but he recruited lots of guys who didn't understand the rivalry. It was just another game to them. That doesn't fly at Ohio State. Same thing is going on right now at Ohio State.

For Texas to be relevant, they must get every Texas kid they want. The kids from east Texas, the kids from Dallas/Fort Worth and the kids from West Texas. That fixes that program.

[Derek]

Too many cools in the kitchen. Cools being boosters. Sometimes it takes patience and boosters don't seem to have it. Especially at Texas.

I wonder if Texas has the same problems as Auburn?

[Spence]

Exactly the same problem. They try to be Alabama or LSU or Georgia, instead of being Auburn.

[Mountainman]

Maybe it’s something in the water, a.k.a. Wallet, Jerry Jones and the Cowboys come to mind……. from the outside looking in something doesn’t appear to add up.


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