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[QUOTE="supp, post: 739473, member: 702"]
Or GRob has a job because Mack Brown is simply out of ideas?

In nearly every argument we have on this board about coaching (ours or someone else's), there's always one side that takes a position behind which stands the assumption that the coaches are smarter than us, that there is some rhyme or reason to everything they do, so maybe we ought to clam up about it.  But maybe we shouldn't be assuming that.  Maybe it's more likely that a good percentage of these coaches are not all that smart and that they don't know what they're doing in every football situation even if they've spent their entire lives around the game.  If they were really smart, they probably wouldn't be coaching football.  And it's probably to our society's benefit overall that we haven't given these people more responsibility!

I just don't get how you can discount a board member's opinion by pointing to the "greater wisdom" of the coaching fraternity.  The truth of the matter is that there are probably lots of folks on these boards who are smarter than 99% of the coaches out there.  They might not be "nicer"  than them, but they're certainly smarter than them.
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