Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out

[Michael Knight 12994]

1 hour ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

With the teams we had, we should have double or more than that. We by far had the best rosters, and yet Mack constantly got butt fucked by Stoops almost yearly, and add in K-State, Tech,or some other team we had superior talent to. Mack sucked as a HC, but he was a good smiley glad hand. There's a reason he was called coach February, and they weren't wrong. Very few times did we lose just 1 game. In fact, he has 3, and 1 undefeated season (remember, he was here for 15 years). Other than that, he has 2+ losses per season. We were constant holiday bowl attendees. But we did have great ST's for almost his entire tenure. 

Stoops won the conference 7 times, and Mack just 2 times. How sad is that? Stoops is 8-5 over Mack, and then went on to wreck other teams on his way to yet another CC. 

With all those NFL players we churned out during his tenure, it's pathetic he only had 2 CC's in his 15 seasons. John Mackovic has 1, Sark has the other 1. 

Stoops has the same number of championships as Mack

[futureman 22538]

22 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Stoops has the same number of championships as Mack

conference championships?

[TexasRenegade 2461]

2 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

And that's how low we had been. Just absolutely crazy to think about. 

The other guys you mentioned I'm too young to remember, but didn't Akers do pretty well until the end? I honestly don't know; I think I've seen posts about it before he was fired, but I'm not entirely sure. 

Akers was great the 1st 5or 6 years...but after about 1984 it all fell apart for him.

[Funk Doctor Spock 12501]

1 hour ago, Michael Knight said:

Stoops has the same number of championships as Mack

But Stoops has been to more NC's than Mack, but yes, you are correct they have the same, but ou has had plenty of chances with how many they've been since they were both coaching (Stoops went to 4, correct)

[Funk Doctor Spock 12501]

2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

I’d exclusively get punters and kickers from the portal.  Much lower bust rate than high school kicking specialist recruits 

Without question. Our last one from Stanford was pretty damn good. 

[Napoleon 8698]

4 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

With the teams we had, we should have double or more than that. We by far had the best rosters, and yet Mack constantly got butt fucked by Stoops almost yearly, and add in K-State, Tech,or some other team we had superior talent to. Mack sucked as a HC, but he was a good smiley glad hand. There's a reason he was called coach February, and they weren't wrong. Very few times did we lose just 1 game. In fact, he has 3, and 1 undefeated season (remember, he was here for 15 years). Other than that, he has 2+ losses per season. We were constant holiday bowl attendees. But we did have great ST's for almost his entire tenure. 

Stoops won the conference 7 times, and Mack just 2 times. How sad is that? Stoops is 8-5 over Mack, and then went on to wreck other teams on his way to yet another CC. 

With all those NFL players we churned out during his tenure, it's pathetic he only had 2 CC's in his 15 seasons. John Mackovic has 1, Sark has the other 1. 

 

4 hours ago, TexasRenegade said:

And yet he was still a vast upgrade over Mackovic, McWilliams, and the later half of Akers.

Mackovic won 1 Big XIi conference championship, 1 SWC championship, and tied for a 3rd SWC championship.

3 conference championships to 2 conference championships for Mack Brown. 
 

Fuck Mack Brown!!

[RomaVicta 29986]

Dogs! Get away from that bone! You done gnawed it to atoms! Git, now!

[Bevo 13596]

8 hours ago, TexasRenegade said:

Akers was great the 1st 5or 6 years...but after about 1984 it all fell apart for him.

 

It must have fallen apart fast because after 84 was 85 and he was fired in 86.

[BurntOrange&White 39974]

Akers was 2 plays away from 2 national titles, yeah? Why did we even have a guy back fielding the punt vs UGA

[tokamak 6434]

Shut the fuck up

[Davis Lane 5591]

55 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Akers was 2 plays away from 2 national titles, yeah? Why did we even have a guy back fielding the punt vs UGA

Lest not forget Jeff Ward missed three field goals that game.

Short field goals if I remember correctly.

[Bevo 13596]

16 minutes ago, Davis Lane said:

Lest not forget Jeff Ward missed three field goals that game.

Short field goals if I remember correctly.

 

Besides Texas, I was also a Nebraska fan at the time. They got their ass kicked too that day.

[Hank Chinaski 6315]

Oh Christ are we doing this again? I was done bitching about Mack after 2014-2020 happened. He was far from perfect but we were a fixture in the top 10 for a decade and won the title in the best game ever played. He wasn’t inexplicably losing to Maryland and Cal and Iowa St and Kansas regularly. 

[Dewey 3288]

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

 

It must have fallen apart fast because after 84 was 85 and he was fired in 86.

I was a kid, my old man went to a "fire Fred Akers party". What i remember is Akers going to an i formation to get Earl as many handles as.possible, Heisman.  After that, it eventually just stunk. It got to a point, even as a kid i knew it was dog shit. First down run, second down run, third and long, pass. 4th down punt. Over and over again.  The hiring in those days was terrible. Then it was McWilliams,  then Mackovic.  

People today talking about surving the Strong and Herman days, bitch, some of us survived Akers, McWilliams, Mackovic,  Strong and Herman.  

[BurntOrange&White 39974]

Per Gerry on OTF

Says a person he spoke with thinks Texas is a big big leader for Kellen Wiley.

Hilson OV to A&M this weekend not certain according to some people around Hilson.

 

[Hornmatic 246]

7 hours ago, Napoleon said:

 

Mackovic won 1 Big XIi conference championship, 1 SWC championship, and tied for a 3rd SWC championship.

3 conference championships to 2 conference championships for Mack Brown. 
 

Fuck Mack Brown!!

Please don’t tell me you’re counting the 94 season in which a&m went undefeated and smoked the league but couldn’t win it due to probation, we lost to rice, and there were 5 co-champs at 4-3 in conference. 🤦‍♂️😂

[Hornmatic 246]

5 minutes ago, Dewey said:

I was a kid, my old man went to a "fire Fred Akers party".  

[Davis Lane 5591]

12 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Oh Christ are we doing this again? I was done bitching about Mack after 2014-2020 happened. He was far from perfect but we were a fixture in the top 10 for a decade and won the title in the best game ever played. He wasn’t inexplicably losing to Maryland and Cal and Iowa St and Kansas regularly. 

Trauma is a bitch, yo.

[South Austin 52572]

35 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Oh Christ are we doing this again? I was done bitching about Mack after 2014-2020 happened. 

Maybe this site isn’t for you.

[Chopper 17244]

9 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Without question. Our last one from Stanford was pretty damn good. 

The increase of allowed scholarships to 105 or whatever may increase the desirability of giving one to a kicker. I don't know shit, but I'd think it would. 

[Tx74 96]

Hell let Arch or Trey Owens punt. It would also add the threat of throwing the ball from punt formation.

[field 231]

40 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Per Gerry on OTF

Says a person he spoke with thinks Texas is a big big leader for Kellen Wiley.

Hilson OV to A&M this weekend not certain according to some people around Hilson.

 

Why derail a Mack Brown bitch thread with actual recruiting notes?

[Hornmatic 246]

2 minutes ago, Tx74 said:

Hell let Arch or Trey Owens punt. It would also add the threat of throwing the ball from punt formation.

You might be joking but that was a definite weapon during the Ash years. Actually the opposite: punting from offensive formations on 4th down.