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    Please Texas, hire one of these 2

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...Twitter_nfl_cb

    Mike Gundy and Kliff Kingsbury are two men Texas should consider for its coaching vacancy, writes Gil Brandt.

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    As someone else observed, Texas will pass over better candidates in the need to feed it's ego by pursuing a bunch of guys they'll never be able to hire, before settling on someone who is good but not great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ou48A View Post
    Please Texas, hire one of these 2
    News - Around the League - NFL.com

    Mike Gundy and Kliff Kingsbury are two men Texas should consider for its coaching vacancy, writes Gil Brandt.
    That link didn't work for me. Here's the direct link Brandt: Five coaching candidates Texas should consider - NFL.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    As someone else observed, Texas will pass over better candidates in the need to feed it's ego by pursuing a bunch of guys they'll never be able to hire, before settling on someone who is good but not great.
    To your point which is accurate IMO.
    Texas has created such a huge mess for it's self!
    Very wealthy UT factions have fought each other, has been an under-appreciated fact for decades and not well known outside the state of Texas.

    http://tamu.rivals.com/content.asp?C...8163&PT=4&PR=2

    “nothing that happened really makes sense except that one side won a power struggle and the other side lost it.”


    “In the end, Saban became a means to an end rather than being the actual end itself and there's got to be more to that if Texas is going to right its program by choosing the right coach.”

    “Now comes the hard part for Texas and as everyone knows when you're replacing a really successful coach, more often than not the people in charge don't get it right nearly as often as they get it wrong.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    As someone else observed, Texas will pass over better candidates in the need to feed it's ego by pursuing a bunch of guys they'll never be able to hire, before settling on someone who is good but not great.
    This is probably true. Texas, Notre Dame, and other historically great programs seem preternaturally obsessed with hiring a coach with head coaching experience. I'll take Stoops and Switzer, both former assistant coaches who became great head coaches. They're striking great candidates off the list by insisting only current head coaches need apply.

    I think they're also making a huge mistake insisting that their head football coach be a PR genius, broadcasting whiz, baby kisser, political glad hander, and de facto university spokesman. They mythologize the job too much. Why not just a hire a great football coach and let him do his job?

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    Latest on the Texas coaching search...


    Coach shoots down Texas rumors: The Longhorn coaching search denial tracker

    Coach shoots down Texas rumors: The Longhorn coaching search denial tracker - SBNation.com

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    All they need to do is go up I-35 an hour and a half or so. Art Briles is my prediction as the first real offer. Solid pick. However, would Briles take the job?

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    Quote Originally Posted by zookeeper View Post
    All they need to do is go up I-35 an hour and a half or so. Art Briles is my prediction as the first real offer. Solid pick. However, would Briles take the job?
    I'm not sure what his incentive would be to go to Austin...well besides a couple million more per year. He is about to get a brand new stadium, they were close to playing for the NC this year, and they are a force in the conference now. The only thing Texas is going to do better is the money...he can already get everything else in Waco if they keep it consistent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by venture View Post
    I'm not sure what his incentive would be to go to Austin...well besides a couple million more per year. He is about to get a brand new stadium, they were close to playing for the NC this year, and they are a force in the conference now. The only thing Texas is going to do better is the money...he can already get everything else in Waco if they keep it consistent.
    I think you're probably right. Who would have ever thought that a coach at Baylor would be in a position to turn down UT?

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    The UT job is a huge headache with all the off the field management and big booster issues.

    Briles while a very good coach, doesn’t have the right personalty to keep all the band-aids on the UT program for long.
    It's going to take a very dynamic personality to maximize the UT football programs potential.

    There are very real reasons why UT has only one national title in the past 41 years or so years.
    Brown only won 2 Big 12 titles in 16 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soonerguru View Post
    This is probably true. Texas, Notre Dame, and other historically great programs seem preternaturally obsessed with hiring a coach with head coaching experience. I'll take Stoops and Switzer, both former assistant coaches who became great head coaches. They're striking great candidates off the list by insisting only current head coaches need apply.

    I think they're also making a huge mistake insisting that their head football coach be a PR genius, broadcasting whiz, baby kisser, political glad hander, and de facto university spokesman. They mythologize the job too much. Why not just a hire a great football coach and let him do his job?
    Bingo. This is precisely part of why Texas has never had success to match its resources and potential. They won't hire that kind of coach.

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    ESPN: by Jake Trotter

    •Baylor coach Art Briles was asked what he would do if the Longhorns came calling. Briles' response? "The grass is green here" at Baylor.

    •Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said he's had no contact with Texas about the Longhorns' job, and more interestingly, said he has changed agents.


    •The Austin American-Statesman's Danny Davis reported that former Texas Tech QB Baker Mayfield is planning to enroll at Oklahoma, and walk on in January. According to The Oklahoman's Jason Kersey, that was news to OU coach Bob Stoops, who said the Sooners weren't pursuing any transfer QBs. This story keeps getting stranger and stranger.

    Art Briles - Big 12 Blog - ESPN

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