🏈 Texas football is an enormous dog being wagged by a skinny little tail: Column—Mack's firing is no j

[TerryP]

No matter how valuable things may be, it's still a dumpster fire.

Gregg Doyel editorial on this story:

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Grab a seat and some popcorn. Texas is about to hire a football coach.

Hell, Texas firing its football coach already has been a hoot, comedy masquerading as drama and put on by a bunch of middle-schoolers. It's a farce and it will become a bigger farce, and even if Texas thinks this is deathly serious -- show some respect; this is Texas football -- it won't be serious. Not to us. To us it will be a hoot.

It already is a hoot, with coach Mack Brown being fired after 16 years at Texas by Orangebloods.com. That was the website that broke the news to the world -- and to Mack Brown -- that he wasn't coming back in 2014. Brown said he had no idea. He was on a recruiting trip in Florida. If that trip was a misdirection, 62-year-old Mack Brown knowing he was resigning but still flying 1,100 miles and putting on his Texas gear and watching a bunch of high school kids practice, it's the greatest misdirection of all time.

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But it wasn't, so it's not, because nothing about this Texas coaching search will be clever. Not in this age of Twitter and rumors and reporters tracking Texas' airplanes through various aviation websites and even fans tracking those planes and then going to a message board to blow Texas' cover and screw the whole thing up.

See, Texas will hire only a great coach. It's Texas football, and Texas football deserves nothing less. You don't hand the Maserati keys to the kid delivering pizza, and you don't hand the Texas football job to <s>John Mackovic</s> Randy Edsall. Well, you don't. Texas football is too valuable a commodity to be given to anyone but the best of the best, and I say that sincerely, and the booster or two who run Texas football understand that better than I do. They're going to pursue the best coaches in the business, college or pro, and the best coaches in the business demand one thing above all else:

Secrecy.

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