aoterrell22
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There is no shortage of joke material in college football. Every game has a winner and a loser and you can, if you are so inclined, chuckle at the loser every time.
Even Alabama, which hasnāt heard much snickering lately, is taking its turn as the goat in the wake of a couple of losses.
But the longest-running gag, by far, has been the Texas coaching search.
It is a veritable wellspring of chuckles, a staple the way āSeinfeldā was in the 1990s, to the point of having recurring characters. Factor in a fair degree of self-importance among the Texas fan base and you could mine one-liners from that fertile lode for days. Furthermore, the leaky pursuit of Nick Saban ā conducted in public forums custom-made for not attracting Nick Saban ā exposed UT to its fair share of ridicule.
But this time, I come not to laugh at the Longhorns but to empathize with them.
Hiring big-time coaches is never easy, not even under the best of circumstances.
I get the sense that Texas, administratively speaking, isnāt the best of circumstances right now and went the Texas-sized search committee route in order to try and drag a lot of opposing factions under one big tent.
Frankly, you are unlikely ā at any school ā to get a half-dozen committee members who can expertly evaluate football coaches. Furthermore, the athletic director is the one whose neck is in the noose if things go poorly, so he might as well get the courtesy of making the choice in the first place. But politics rule the day sometimes.
But who can really point fingers? Alabama was fortunate, both in leadership and timing, when it hired Saban, but even that hiring was preceded by a month of turmoil.
There is no shortage of joke material in college football. Every game has a winner and a loser and you can, if you are so inclined, chuckle at the loser every time.
Even Alabama, which hasnāt heard much snickering lately, is taking its turn as the goat in the wake of a couple of losses.
But the longest-running gag, by far, has been the Texas coaching search.
It is a veritable wellspring of chuckles, a staple the way āSeinfeldā was in the 1990s, to the point of having recurring characters. Factor in a fair degree of self-importance among the Texas fan base and you could mine one-liners from that fertile lode for days. Furthermore, the leaky pursuit of Nick Saban ā conducted in public forums custom-made for not attracting Nick Saban ā exposed UT to its fair share of ridicule.
But this time, I come not to laugh at the Longhorns but to empathize with them.
Hiring big-time coaches is never easy, not even under the best of circumstances.
I get the sense that Texas, administratively speaking, isnāt the best of circumstances right now and went the Texas-sized search committee route in order to try and drag a lot of opposing factions under one big tent.
Frankly, you are unlikely ā at any school ā to get a half-dozen committee members who can expertly evaluate football coaches. Furthermore, the athletic director is the one whose neck is in the noose if things go poorly, so he might as well get the courtesy of making the choice in the first place. But politics rule the day sometimes.
But who can really point fingers? Alabama was fortunate, both in leadership and timing, when it hired Saban, but even that hiring was preceded by a month of turmoil.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140104/news/140109859?p=2&tc=pg#gsc.tab=0
Even Alabama, which hasnāt heard much snickering lately, is taking its turn as the goat in the wake of a couple of losses.
But the longest-running gag, by far, has been the Texas coaching search.
It is a veritable wellspring of chuckles, a staple the way āSeinfeldā was in the 1990s, to the point of having recurring characters. Factor in a fair degree of self-importance among the Texas fan base and you could mine one-liners from that fertile lode for days. Furthermore, the leaky pursuit of Nick Saban ā conducted in public forums custom-made for not attracting Nick Saban ā exposed UT to its fair share of ridicule.
But this time, I come not to laugh at the Longhorns but to empathize with them.
Hiring big-time coaches is never easy, not even under the best of circumstances.
I get the sense that Texas, administratively speaking, isnāt the best of circumstances right now and went the Texas-sized search committee route in order to try and drag a lot of opposing factions under one big tent.
Frankly, you are unlikely ā at any school ā to get a half-dozen committee members who can expertly evaluate football coaches. Furthermore, the athletic director is the one whose neck is in the noose if things go poorly, so he might as well get the courtesy of making the choice in the first place. But politics rule the day sometimes.
But who can really point fingers? Alabama was fortunate, both in leadership and timing, when it hired Saban, but even that hiring was preceded by a month of turmoil.
There is no shortage of joke material in college football. Every game has a winner and a loser and you can, if you are so inclined, chuckle at the loser every time.
Even Alabama, which hasnāt heard much snickering lately, is taking its turn as the goat in the wake of a couple of losses.
But the longest-running gag, by far, has been the Texas coaching search.
It is a veritable wellspring of chuckles, a staple the way āSeinfeldā was in the 1990s, to the point of having recurring characters. Factor in a fair degree of self-importance among the Texas fan base and you could mine one-liners from that fertile lode for days. Furthermore, the leaky pursuit of Nick Saban ā conducted in public forums custom-made for not attracting Nick Saban ā exposed UT to its fair share of ridicule.
But this time, I come not to laugh at the Longhorns but to empathize with them.
Hiring big-time coaches is never easy, not even under the best of circumstances.
I get the sense that Texas, administratively speaking, isnāt the best of circumstances right now and went the Texas-sized search committee route in order to try and drag a lot of opposing factions under one big tent.
Frankly, you are unlikely ā at any school ā to get a half-dozen committee members who can expertly evaluate football coaches. Furthermore, the athletic director is the one whose neck is in the noose if things go poorly, so he might as well get the courtesy of making the choice in the first place. But politics rule the day sometimes.
But who can really point fingers? Alabama was fortunate, both in leadership and timing, when it hired Saban, but even that hiring was preceded by a month of turmoil.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140104/news/140109859?p=2&tc=pg#gsc.tab=0
