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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo


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19 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

If you divorced your wife and lost half your shit because she was fucking someone else, would you start dating her again a decade later? Would you still be a little pissed off about it?

Dating her or saying hello to her now and then?  I’m fine with that because I’m back to fucking the hottest chick in the country. I’m over Mack and not worried about him in the slightest. 

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16 hours ago, Red Five said:

Of course Mack did great things here. The problem is that he put on a fucking masterclass on how to obliterate your legacy in his last four years here. And he took it to an almost comical level in the final weeks/days. There is a reason he's been gone this long and there is still nothing here with his name on it (that I know of), much less a statue. 

Mack mentioned working for CDC previously which threw me for a moment. IIRC Mack did have some sort of cushy brand ambassador/consultant type gig here before he left for UNC. I randomly remember hearing about him and Sally taking a "business trip" to Qatar or some such place.

So If Mack returns to do something similar it wouldn't be unprecedented. Maybe he wants to take some more trips on the University's dime.

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25 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What I have learned on Surly is that no matter how shitty a take is, there is always someone who will take that position and then keep digging their heals deeper and deeper. It's quite fascinating!

Little edit, and we gots us a New, Improved Motto:

Digging Our Heals Deeper

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7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

bad_teammate's theory is that Mack Brown will say nothing but great things about Texas. Laughable.

From my first comment on this I've pointed out the eventuality that Mack will not, in fact, say nothing but great things about Texas. ("If he starts getting ornery about this-or-that (in public or even in private), pat him on the head and have Sally come collect him until he's had his orange slices and feels better.")

Good luck, fellow posters, keeping the cameras and microphones away from Mack and convincing players, coaches, admin, and donors to ignore his calls. Go fly a banner, I guess.

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Damn 5 pages of handwringing because Mack is moving back to Austin. Do you guys imagine him walking into CDC's office and saying "Pack your shit, I'm the AD now!"? He's 73 and hasn't been relevant since we shitcanned him over a decade ago. Nobody cares what he says or thinks. He's wants to sit up in a press box on gameday so he can be cheered when they show him on the jumbotron. That's all this is about.

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Run sheet for Mack's first Austin Tx Based Media Production

 

-  Weekly Longhorn Recap

- Quarterback/Safety Safety/Quarterback - A Study in Duality

- Florida Recruiting - Why It's So Hard

-  Texas BBQ Talk 

-  Surviving The Surge - Tips and Tricks For The First 10 Minutes of A Football Game

-  Scary Stuff Roundtable

-  Around Austin with special guest Mackenzie Kelly

- Preview of Next Opponent/Predictions

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Those pointing out that the University won't be as petty as we are here are right; at least outwardly.  No one at UT is going to issue a press release saying "fuck that guy, he's not welcome and UTPD will arrest him for trespassing the moment he steps on campus."

The University's pettiness will show up in more subtle ways.  Like he gets honored between quarters vs. a halftime presentation.  He is feted in a group vs. alone.  Or one of my favs: he gets the statue or his name on the practice facility you know he so desperately wants for his legacy...after he dies.

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22 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

The only benefit immamac can come up with is that media types will make money. Most fans don't give a flying fuck if media types make money and that doesn't benefit the program much if at all.

bad_teammate's theory is that Mack Brown will say nothing but great things about Texas. Laughable.

And to get there, David Dennison is extolling the tremendous success of a guy who had one magical season in 16 years. 2 conference championships in 16 years and the three worst losses to Oklahoma in Texas history. 2005 can never be taken away and I'm thankful for it, but Mack Brown's overall tenure was pretty good but not nearly great and is the entire basis for the program's reputation for wasting tremendous advantages. 16 years with only 2 conference championships had only been done twice in Texas history before Mack Brown. From 1921-1941 Texas only won 2 conference titles, then again from 1978-1993. Mack Brown actually started the latest downturn of local Texas strength relative to our state and conference mates. And let's not pretend that winning the Big 12 with 12 teams was as tough as winning a 16-team SEC will be moving forward. He pretty much just had to beat Oklahoma and we know how that went.

It was a good fucking interview. That's what I said. Everyone else saying it's doomsday and he's taking over the AD are out of their god damned minds. 

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25 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

The only benefit immamac can come up with is that media types will make money. Most fans don't give a flying fuck if media types make money and that doesn't benefit the program much if at all.

bad_teammate's theory is that Mack Brown will say nothing but great things about Texas. Laughable.

And to get there, David Dennison is extolling the tremendous success of a guy who had one magical season in 16 years. 2 conference championships in 16 years and the three worst losses to Oklahoma in Texas history. 2005 can never be taken away and I'm thankful for it, but Mack Brown's overall tenure was pretty good but not nearly great and is the entire basis for the program's reputation for wasting tremendous advantages. 16 years with only 2 conference championships had only been done twice in Texas history before Mack Brown. From 1921-1941 Texas only won 2 conference titles, then again from 1978-1993. Mack Brown actually started the latest downturn of local Texas strength relative to our state and conference mates. And let's not pretend that winning the Big 12 with 12 teams was as tough as winning a 16-team SEC will be moving forward. He pretty much just had to beat Oklahoma and we know how that went.

Still the only magical season in my lifetime, and I'm 53.

He gets credit for that.

He also poses no threat to Texas football in 2024, which is all that really matters.

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20 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

No, but that's not what this is. This is about smiling for the kids when she's around for major events and holidays. It's a sales point. It's an image builder. It's a show of unity, even if it's partially or even mostly fake. It makes us look smaller to have some pointlessly petty relationship with our most successful HC of the last 50 years.

welp, actually, it sorta is

"college football is a mess"

....... a bunch of stuff ......

"we're moving back to austin"

..... more stuff that doesn't really matter ......

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opposite of profit

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12 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

Are you serious or is this "amazing interview" thing a bit?  Even if you take away all the hysterics about Mack and his potential toxic impact on Texas going forward and just look at Burton's interview in a vacuum, it was mediocre to below average.  The questions were fawning, softball and leading the witness ("Mack, would you agree that..."), the answers were shallow with little-to-no follow up ("Sark is doing great," "You need great NIL to compete today," "I keep in touch with former players on Facebook"), and there was zero balanced examination of the bad side of Mack's tenure as you would expect in an "good" interview.  I was going to give Burton half-credit for his "which loss stung the most" question, but he loses it when he jumps over and answers it for Mack, and then Mack predictably uses it as an opportunity for excuse making and throwing players under the bus.

I don't blame Burton for this.  He's not a professional interviewer, that's a skill.  And Mack probably wouldn't be there if he was going to face anything other than softball questions.  Maybe, as you said, a softball interview with an over-the-hill coach from a decade ago will generate hundreds of thousands of viewers and that makes it worth it to OTF.

But don't piss in our face and say it's raining by calling this a "good fucking interview" when it clearly is anything but.

I thought it was decent. I liked the Leach story. And the story about the team watching the USC-ND game. Not an "amazing interview," but interesting enough for me to listen to the entire thing.

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19 hours ago, immamac said:

You guys are so fucking disconnected from reality it's a joke.

The vast majority of Texas fans love Mack Brown. Not a lot of people disagree about him needing to move on, but a lot of people didn't think the way it went down was the right way, and in hindsight it definitely wasn't. 

Mack Brown didn't fucking cause the last decade in the wilderness claiming he's the direct cause of it is beyond bogus. If anything it proved how dysfunctional and stupid the AD was post Dodds until CDC Eltife got in lockstep and serious about athletics. 

It was an excellent interview from a guy that has been around CFB for a very very long time and has seen the landscape change. He can call whichever AD in the country he wants, not for a job, but just to talk and there are very very few people that can do that. 

his exit was shitty

it would have never gone down that way if he had held to his promise to boom that the rose bowl was his exit

the surl is of course not the vast majority of fans

but the surl is the core of the core - maybe create a poll for a surl referendum on the topic of mack? - and wait until after the season is over before posting it......

even having this discussion with a quarterfinal in 3 days is a distraction

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19 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

And, if he insists on playing his timeless woe is me card, guys like Bobby shouldn’t give him a platform, no matter the clicks.

if someone else has already made the following point my apologies for bandwidth use....

i can't fucking believe bobby didn't have the common sense to sit on the interview until the season was over.....

i'm sure mack is more than happy with the timing with 1000 klieg lights shining on the program this week

as imma stated, this isn't just any persona, and this isn't just any interview

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1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

if someone else has already made the following point my apologies for bandwidth use....

i can't fucking believe bobby didn't have the common sense to sit on the interview until the season was over.....

i'm sure mack is more than happy with the timing with 1000 klieg lights shining on the program this week

as imma stated, this isn't just any persona, and this isn't just any interview

nobody would listen to it after the season is over.  This is, as always, all about Mack Brown and his thin skinned need to be celebrated.  Glad handing in the background to help the University(as people are saying this is) is not and never will be the goal for FUPM.

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22 minutes ago, TXpride said:

I thought it was decent. I liked the Leach story. And the story about the team watching the USC-ND game. Not an "amazing interview," but interesting enough for me to listen to the entire thing.

I heard Mack's little bitchy whiny voice for three whole seconds and noped the fuck out of it.

I'd rather hear Herman blab about winning being hard* in one hand while Strong talks about cakes being baked on repeat for thirty-five minutes straight than hear that voice for another three seconds.

 

 

*hehehehehehhee "hard' ehehehehehe

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Remember the time a Texas fan had something negative to say in a Washington Post article, and Mack called him up and bitched him out, like three days before a Texas OU game in which we got trounced? Good times. 

It's actually hard to believe someone as mentally fragile as him had as much success as he did.

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

Remember the time a Texas fan had something negative to say in a Washington Post article, and Mack called him up and bitched him out, like three days before a Texas OU game in which we got trounced? Good times. 

It's actually hard to believe someone as mentally fragile as him had as much success as he did.

As much shit as Greg Davis took, he(and VY of course) is probably the reason Mack is who he is.  He told him not to change the O after the 2010 NC game and here we are.

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Has anyone checked on the whereabouts of Greg Davis?

exactly.

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17 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

There's no "let" to it. Literally nothing we can do to keep him out of Austin and there are plenty of people connected to the program who genuinely like him and want him around. Can't be helped or stopped. Same for the bitch ex-wives. We married them and had kids with them; they're ours to deal with whether we like it or not.

If CDC and Sark are smart they let it all go in one ear and out the other when Mack is saying anything that isn't supportive praise. And if they're dumb enough to let Mack's thin-skinned defensiveness and self-mythologizing then we're screwed anyway.

Better to set it up to where he can get his massive, easily-wounded ego stroked in a way that's healthy for the program and not leave it to him having to make his own way to get attention and reassuring pats. Shouldn't be too hard to make it work out for everyone involved so long as everyone behaves.

hopium

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9 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

I heard Mack's little bitchy whiny voice for three whole seconds and noped the fuck out of it.

I'd rather hear Herman blab about winning being hard* in one hand while Strong talks about cakes being baked on repeat for thirty-five minutes straight than hear that voice for another three seconds.

 

 

*hehehehehehhee "hard' ehehehehehe

Seriously... all other shit aside I can NOT stand to hear his voice. His press conferences while WINNING before 2008 irritated me. That voice the, bullshit "ah shucks gee whiz" comments, never being anything but evasive unless complimenting an opponent (which he fucking LOVED to do), all of it. 

I can't hear that voice and not cringe with disgust and anger. Don't worry, I'm seeking help, but I'm not optimistic.

1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

hopium

It's like I'm in a Texags thread.

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