We have had this discussion in another thread. Fifty years is a long time over which to measure a program; you said that was "cherry picking" because as of this year, it eliminates the last of our DKR national titles. I don't agree that the number 50 is cherry picking. Regardless, let's just look at what's happened since DKR retired-- that happened two years after I was born, so it's kind of relevant to me.
Since DKR retired, Texas has won its conference eight times. EIGHT. TIMES. Eight times (counting the bullshit 1994 co-championship, too) in more than forty years! That is not bad luck, it is not an excusable confluence of circumstances. Spread out over four-plus decades, it is concrete proof this program doesn't win the way the other bluebloods do. Michigan's done it 15 times, Alabama 13, USC 16, Oklahoma 21, Ohio State 18.
Wins? football.stassen.com says we are 13th since DKR retired, and 15th in win percentage.
National titles? We have one since DKR retired, the same as Michigan, and quite a few less than Miami, Florida State, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Clemson, USC, or Alabama. Not even going to mention Nebraska since they're on the ash heap now.
If you take the entirety of the program's existence, we are on the top tier. When you start to weight the modern era more heavily, what programs have done since integration allowed the best black southern players to stay home and the OU/Georgia vs NCAA Supreme Court decision opened the TV floodgates and the rules changed to favor the forward pass, we start to fall further and further behind. You keep saying "we're in a slump"; the slump goes back most of 40-plus years now. We slumped at the tail end of Akers' up and down tenure, we slumped from there until Mack turned the program around, we slumped after Mack got too rich and lazy to work hard enough, and we've been in that slump ever since.
You are making too many excuses for us. We don't win like the programs we compare ourselves to. We have one national title since most of us were born, thanks to one transcendent star. Otherwise, it's more than four decades now of underachieving, and it's because our University does not put the same emphasis on winning at football that a school like Ohio State or Alabama does. We emphasize football, sure, but winning is less important than access and influence and revenue.
This was a hell of a derail so I apologize to those who were enjoying the snotty CR eye rolling that I interrupted.