(01-19-2024 10:41 PM)Longhorn Wrote: (01-19-2024 03:03 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote: (01-19-2024 03:19 AM)Longhorn Wrote: (01-18-2024 02:25 PM)WARDAWG93 Wrote: Mac Brown thinks y'all should have taken Chris Sims.
The beginning of Brown’s downfall in Austin. All Applewhite ever did for Texas was win. Sims? Not so much.
I always thought the nonsense surrounding Sims and his daddy was a disservice to Major.
Excellent hire USA!
not even close
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You’re apparently unfamilar with Major’s record as UT’s starting QB and the issues surrounding his competition with Simms. Major (outside of injuries) should never have been benched in favor of Simms.
Note, I’m not making an argument about Major being the best QB in UT’s history. I’m simply stating Major was a winner as a player, which he was. I think his selection to be USA’s next HC was a great decision.
but that was not the start of the downfall of Mack Brown
Mack Brown had Vince and the MNC after Applewhite and he had Colt McCoy and playing for another MNC in 2009
Mack was golden after the 2005 MNC and people had moved past the Applewhite Simms issue and they were way past it after Colt McCoy
if you are going to say that the Applewhite Simms issue was the downfall of Mack Brown well it was really not.......the downfall of Mack Brown was that he was always very poor at evaluating QBs and he was always looking to turn really good QBs into DBs
He also never had a consistent offensive system he let Greg Davis design an offense to go with whatever talent Texas had......but then at the end of it all (well past Applewhite and Simms) Mack was being lazy with recruiting and he was just recruiting *s with no cohesion to anything on offense and he was trying to wrap up recruiting by January (back well before early signing) and that all blew up on him when he had top RBs with a pass blocking Oline and QBs that could scramble some, but the OL was set up to protect the pass.....and receivers that were there for a protected passer not one that was mobile.....and then he lost the magic of getting fired up DC to come in and install a D and keep it fired up and motivated
lastly Mack had a bad habit of making a promise to recruits and then not being able to back out of it......which was the whole Applewhite Simms issue
but again that issue alone was out of everyone's mindset after the MNC in 2005 and after playing for another in 2009
if Mack had been able to keep the DCs coming in, if he had put effort into an offensive system and recruiting to it, and if he had been able to look a signed player in the face and tell them they did not earn a start he would probably still be at Texas or he would be retired with more meaningful victories
it was not the Applewhite Simms issue that got him fired people were long past that.....it was his inability to keep doing the same things that lead up to that which got him fired as well as a few more things he could not stop doing or he could not keep getting around
that issue was a manifestation of the issues with Mack Brown it was not the cause of his issues
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Major Applewhite - New South Alabama Coach
