How does Texas fall off so far and fast?

[CusefanATL]

Michigan too

... QB play?

Those schools should never look so bad

Michael Vick.

 

[CusefanATL]

Mack Brown and his poor recruiting killed Texas. Plus, you have emergence of TCU, Texas Tech and Baylor. Oh, and every other school in the country now coming into Texas.

mack browns "retired" after 2013. so lets call his last real recruiting year 2012:

2012 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2012/all/all #2 ranked class
2011 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2011/all/all #3 ranked class
2010 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2010/all/all #3 ranked class
2009 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2009/all/all #5 ranked class
2008 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2008/all/all #14 ranked class

even with the coaching change
2013 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2013/all/all #24 ranked class

 

[texascpa]

mack browns "retired" after 2013. so lets call his last real recruiting year 2012:

2012 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2012/all/all #2 ranked class
2011 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2011/all/all #3 ranked class
2010 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2010/all/all #3 ranked class
2009 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2009/all/all #5 ranked class
2008 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2008/all/all #14 ranked class

even with the coaching change
2013 http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2013/all/all #24 ranked class

I should have qualified it with "poor QB recruiting". Even then, many folks did not believe he was recruiting well to his system. Living down here, I get to hear alot about UT and TA&M, but, really, I don't care much.

 

[Millhouse]

Michigan too

... QB play?

Those schools should never look so bad

mac brown was never a great coach but he did have enough sense to run an incredibly simple offense with his best athlete in the shotgun all day. now lots of schools do that. they made so many terrible choices in recruiting too

michigan made so many disastrous moves with coordinators. letting shafer go. letting robinson come. al borges.

 

[Rocco]

I still think a lot of it comes down to coaching. I still see no reason why Texas should ever be blown out of a game. That have arguably some of the best players in the country that hail from football-frenzied towns. I mean some of these kids are celebrities where they come from. They know how to play ball.

They have the talent, I'm just not sold on Strong as a coach. QB or not, they shouldn't be that bad. Run a power O behind these huge linemen.

I know he had success at Louisville in the BE, but there is no reason to get smoked like that.

 

[RoysRunts]

Gregerrs was there!

 

[orange_in_VA]

Texas turned into what Florida State was in Bowden's last years. Recruiting was done based on star rankings more so than going out and looking at the players. The HC was more of a figurehead and CEO and lost sight of the day to day details and the off the field crap started to show on the field. There was no real system or vision in terms of how the team was going to play. When Charlie Strong came in last year he booted like a dozen kids due to off field incidents... Basically the inmates were running the asylum. This came at a bad time for Texas as Baylor, TCU and AnM have all started recently ramping up their programs on the backs of really innovative coaches at the same time as Texas has slipped. It's kind of funny that over the past several years the best combo football/basketball program has been Baylor. Now Texas is behind the 8 ball in term of recruiting Texas and in terms of how established their coaches are in the state of Texas.

I moved to Austin this past January so it's been fun to see the ramp up to this college football season. I think most of Longhorn nation believes that Brown stayed too long and lost that edge. They believe in Strong and are ready for a several year rebuild... I think this year is going to be what it's going to be but next year the need has to point upwards or Strong is in trouble. He has a tough job because as I said before he's fighting several other programs for the top talent in Texas and he doesn't have the in state connections like those other guys have. He signed five 4* players from Florida this past year, the were called the Florida Five, and I believe all but one have already transferred home so that strategy has seemed to not worked. I give Strong a 50/50 shot of surviving... like Shafer he is all in on his young dudes this year and he will live or die by them.

The one kid that made it out of the "Florida Five" was former Cuse commit Devante Davis

 

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