The problem with 8-5 this year, if Mensa can achieve that, which seems dubious, is that 8-5 will breed complacency. "Oh, Mensa has earned one more year" type loser thinking.
But, at 8-5, recruiting will suffer. For example, don't look for Evans at 8-5. Evans to aggy, or, worse, to Lincoln Riley, who will curb stomp us forever.
Then, next year, no, there won't be 10 wins. More like, at best, 8-5.
And there we will be. Stuck with an 8-5 Coach and that's during a good year.
We'll roll with Mensa and 6-6 to 8-5 for 5, 6, or 7 years and lose an entire decade. A lost decade. Bank it.
Leach, Peterson, Patterson, others can put Texas where we need to be - winning NCs. Mensa cannot. There ARE coaches who can win NCs at Texas.
Any coach that we talk to who doesn't say he WILL win the NC at Texas, no excuses, is not a guy Texas should even consider.
Say what you want about Mack Brown's end career and I'm there with you, but on the day Mack was hired he said he would win a NC at Texas. And by god he got us one. He should have gotten more, but he DID get us one.
Mensa gets us nothing. As Darrell would say, he ain't got "it".