NBHorn7

Why do you hate the concepts of the coach that put Texas Football on the map?

Coach Royal would absolutely hate that players can sell themselves to the highest bidder, not caring who it is. The portal lets players do this without any loyalty to a school or program. Coach Royal hated what is now legal to do. Do you think DKR would be pleased if a player that told him he wanted to play for him, then decided he wanted to go play for Alabama, because he could get more money there. Coach Royal was about commitment and loyalty as he was about anything else. How could players like this even be considered his players? Coach Royal had no concept that college football would ever become what it is now. It's a lower-level professional league, that many people even consider a job instead of a player attending college and playing football.

My post and yours don't counteract each other. There is still a lot of truth in the old saying you can kill two birds with one stone, or in this case one move back to a prior location.

The first thing Mack wants to do he said when he gets back to Austin is to socialize again with old pals Dodds and "CDC." It's pretty plain to see what is going on. Mack is moving back to Austin because he is totally irrelevant in Chappel Hill. He was not only fired, but was replaced by someone that is totally is sucking the oxygen out of that place. Mack's ego can't stand that. He is coming back to Austin to try and restore his relevance again in some way, with people that can help him do that. This ends in either he gets some kind of cushy deal with UT, or he goes back to television, which most likely means at ESPN. Maybe he would try to do both. I listen to Mack talk about how DKR was 72 when Mack got here and now, I am 73. Royal retired from coaching at the ripe old age of 52. He served as AD for four years and that was pretty much it. Royal didn't like what was going on with college football then. He sure wouldn't like it now. All Mack cares about is staying in the spotlight, no matter how or where. He proved that in the past and is doing so now.

Is he not coming back to the Texas Football program in some compacity? Isn't that what Mack wants?

He will now have something to do with Texas Football and has a history of bad behavior and has many friends in the media. He will certainly have the power to hurt Texas football.

He hurt it in the past, why not now. Why do people deny that and how petty his behavior was?

I think most of this fan base likes the place that Texas Football is in right now. They are very wary of things and people that can endanger that. Mack "giveth and then he took it away." There is no denying how petty Mack can be, it is a known fact. Why play around with people that are hard to control and can possibly hurt the program if you don't have to?

At what percentage of health? He's been playing hurt for a long time and each time he plays he reaggravates the ankle. It's been a total "Catch 22." He is a difference maker when he has his total speed. If the ankle is gimpy, he's mostly just a decoy, that opposing teams know can't beat them deep, nor can block effectively.

Basketball discussion with Gerry Hamilton starts at the 18:45 mark.

What's going to happen after a death blow court decision against the NCAA makes that organization go the way of the Dodo bird? There will be two or three mega conferences that will have to govern themselves. I would think they would have to have a "commissioner" or some kind of board to make decisions. This is the way so called "college" football is headed.

Maybe Mack will "rekindle" the fireside chats, that another former coach at Texas had, in a football format. Mack likes to repeat things and places.

F=mg Rimbo's theory of "sagativity." He is a super genius.