Posted on 11/26/2016 6:46:51 AM PST by C19fan
Texas will fire head coach Charlie Strong on Saturday morning, SI's Pete Thamel has confirmed. Chip Brown of Scout.com first reported the news. Texas men's athletic director Mike Perrin issued a statement last Sunday, saying that the school will "evaluate the body of work after the regular season," after Thamel confirmed that the school had made the decision to fire Strong.
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Wonder if he thought affirmative action mindset had anything to do with his hiring?
I don’t agree. I think he might have been saved with a win over TCU.
Almost every College coach in Texas needs to be fired.
It’s been nothing short of embarrassing how bad the state has done this year, even A&M faded down the stretch as they usually do.
Fred Akers.... Ugh. Couldn’t win a bowl game. Couldn’t bear Notre Dame with Earl Campbell in the backfield.
I was glad to see him go.
IMO. Texas needs a new AD as well. Time to bring Mack back as AD, with Herman as his coach.
I would hope not as his race has nothing to do with it at all. I think the #1 thing on the mind of the UT boosters is to start winning football games and Charlie has frankly lost his credibility for leading the program. Charlie is a class act and I certainly wish him well. But his 16-21 record speaks for itself. In the first 3 years of the financial crisis the State of Texas created more jobs than the rest of the country put together. Austin, Texas is the capitol and it has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in this country. It’s a HUUUUGE hurt to the ego of Texas to have a losing football team at the flagship university.
In the meantime up north in DFW there was been a QB crisis with the Cowboys :( Tony Romo was injured and things were looking pretty depressing. I can list 10 reasons why heads aren’t rolling (like Charlie’s) in Dallas right now ..... and all 10 reasons start with the letter W ;)
This is where UT is headed now .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Herman_%28American_football%29
Well, we got Herman, half of your wish already. Hook-em!
Texas has its Longhorn network so all is well in the Big 12...or whatever the latest count is!
A&M may have an opening as well.
That job will attract a lot of interest but the UT job is probably still the top job on the board.
It was a while back, but a Congressman from Texas was on the long journey home from Washington. He stopped to visit his congressional colleague from Tennessee. The Tennessean gave him a tour of Knoxville. They went down near the river to see the creation. The Tennessean proudly exclaimed “ This is our great University, The University of Tennessee”. He went on to extol the great professors and opportunities for the bright students flocking to the campus. He called the chancellor who graciously greeted the congressman from Texas with a Tennessee orange T shirt emblazoned UT.
While traveling, the Texan thought on his visit and concluded that we need a university like that in Texas.
Alas, disaster struck. While philandering in a gambling hall under the hill in Natchez, the Congressman from the great but fledgling State of Texas was murdered. He went immediately to hell. The fires burned heatedly and though not consumed, his hair, eyebows and clothing were scorched. On presentation to the devil, the evil one saw the UT shirt and decided this must be a Holy Man and cast the Texan out. He found himself dazed but alive once more on the road back to Texas.
As soon as he got home, he called a committee to meet and they created a University, The University of Texas. To his day many Texans proudly wear T shirts of Burnt Orange bearing the logo UT.
Once again, like the Alamo and San Jacinto, Texans became indebted to Tennessee for greatness.
Your getting warm. Skin color doesn’t matter at UT when it comes to the head football coach because expectations are impossibly high (e.g. “every other year in the national championship game”).
So, it was baked into the cake that Charlie, one day, would get fired as he simply did not have the background to be thrown into this boiling pot known as Texas Football. Because he is black, racism accusations and innuendo would naturally follow.
All in All, Texas, my alma mater, really mis-handled the whole affair and deserves it’s share of criticism.
Fortuantely, the AD that hired him was fired too.
I agree with everything you said. And, thanks for correcting my percentage guestimate.
UT alum here. The thing is that Herman was an assistant at UT for a time. He knows how it works there. The deep pocket boys and girls have a major say on who and what the team does. If Herman can play the game of recruiting as well as the political game, he will have a good run. Strong was never a good hire, he did not fit in for many reasons. IMO, Texas needs to get in another conference, but that seems doubtful.
Yep. Probably a couple years to late. He did himself and the program no favors at the end. He was excellent before that. From what I understand second hand, he got cocky and lazy about recruiting towards the end and thought he could keep the same level of talent with minimal effort. Happens to many good men. The result of prolonged success and growing arrogance. Human nature for many.
Then maybe his race didn’t have anything to do with his inability to get a job early in his career.
Mack Brown is squarely to blame for demise of the Texas football program.
For some reason, Mack lost his mind after the narrow loss to Bama in the BCS Title game. Colt McCoy (the winningest QB in college football history) was injured on a freak play early in the game. Playing with a true Frosh Qb, who had almost no snaps for the year, Texas STILL had a chance to win the game late in the 4th quarter. It wans’t a ‘bad loss’. But, it was enough to convince Mack that Texas needed to be a running team, like Bama.
Mack was so convinced, he fired his LONG-TIME close friend, Offensive coordinator Greg Williams. At that time, William’s offenses had scored the MOST points of any team in the country over the previous 10 years.
I didn’t understand, or agree with his logic then. Years later, it has been nothing but DISASTER.
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