Mack Brown to "Retire"

• OneBuckeye

  

  Some radio station in Kansas is saying he will retire. MOAR RUMORS!
  
  http://www.burntorangenation.com/2011/12/1/2604042/mack-brown-to-retire-saturday-per-non-credible-rumor-from-nowhere
  

  The best (and worst) thing about the proliferation of social media is that it provides a widely available platform through which people outside the mainstream people can report breaking news.
  On Thursday afternoon, a radio host from Topeka, Kansas (yes, apparently there is both radio and the internet in Kansas now) tweeted that a source had revealed to him that Texas head coach [URL="http://You want your guys coming into the building and saying, ‘What have we got this week?' If you say, ‘Same old, same old,' that's what you're going to get in practice,"]Mack Brown will retire following the Baylor game[/URL] on Saturday. Not even multiple sources. Just a source. Not even a source close to the program. Just a source.
  This Jake Labahn person, whoever he is, tweeted later that his source is a member of the coaching fraternity, but still, it seems odd to the point of not being believable that such a major breaking news story would come from Topeka instead of making a start on the Texas message boards. Or even emerging from somewhere other like the media entities that cover Texas. In Austin. Not Kansas.
  
  For what it's worth -- virtually nothing -- the Texas sports information department responded to queries from the journalists who would likely actually hear of something like this way before some random dude on the windswept plains by noting that it "doesn't warrant a response." Of course, even if there was truth to the rumor, Texas SID wouldn't admit it anyway, so the response means essentially nothing.
  What helped throw fuel on the fire, however, were some comments from Barking Carnival and Recruitocosm, also on Twitter. Sailor Ripley tweeted that he had just spoken with Recruitocosm, leading him to believe that "there are some potentially interesting days ahead." Then, Recruitocosm tweeted that there was essentially some connection to the report from Topeka and information that delayed the publication of a report from the source known as the Big Cigar. Another response indicated that Chris Petersen has always been ahead of Urban Meyer to replace Mack Brown.
  Though it's still a longshot, the possibility that Mack Brown could step down in order to allow for Petersen to take the Texas job instead of heading to UCLA, Arizona State, or [insert program without a head coach] does make some logical sense, wouldn't it also make sense for Petersen to leave those jobs for Texas if Austin is truly his end game?
  Of course, Mack Brown designating Will Muschamp as his head coach in waiting several years ago provides the vacuum to create these types of reports and allow them to flourish. Though Brown has said within the last two weeks that he plans on coaching at Texas for a long time, the view through these eyes indicates that Brown has lost some of the energy that was present after the coaching changes during what has surely been a trying season for him and his team.
  The best guess is still that Brown wants to see this team complete much more of the rebuilding process than has already been achieved, but it's also the case that Brown may not have anticipated the process to be this difficult. Especially in light of the still-unstable quarterback situation without a proven difference-maker on campus that could seriously delay any major progress.
  So, in summary, there don't seem to be many reasons to believe the report based on where it came from, but there are also some reasons why it isn't completely outside the realm of possibility, either.
  

• bigkahuna

  I don't believe that.
• jordo212000

  

  yeah hasn't really blown up. I have my doubts
• SportsAndLady

  

  My Co-Worker went to Tejas the last 4 years...he says that he thinks Mack will be done..obviously that's no real source and it's just this guys opinion, but he did work in the athletic department.
  
  As a UT fan, I would say good riddance if true
• karen lotz

  

  SportsAndLady;997921 wrote:
  As a UT fan, I would say good riddance if true

  
  How many teams do you have?
• vball10set

  if this is true, then Texas would vault to the top of the list for most desirable coaching jobs in the country...that being said, I doubt this will happen, at least for next season
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  OneBuckeye;997631 wrote:MOAR RUMORS!

  
• SportsAndLady

  

  karen lotz;997927 wrote:How many teams do you have?

  How many teams do you have?
• SportsAndLady

  

  Chris Peterson to Tejas
  
  Cue tater's eruption
• FatHobbit

  

  karen lotz;997927 wrote:How many teams do you have?

  /sleeper'd
• karen lotz

  

  SportsAndLady;998002 wrote:How many teams do you have?

  
  Never seen you mention being a Texas football fan.
• SportsAndLady

  

  karen lotz;998045 wrote:Never seen you mention being a Texas football fan.

  I'm not, I meant if I were a UT fan, I'd be cool w/ Brown leaving
• karen lotz

  

  OIC
• sleeper

  

  He's also a Kansas basketball fan. Apparently he has no loyalty and I wouldn't hire him to flip burgers at my McDonalds.
• SportsAndLady

  

  You wouldn't hire someone with no loyalty to flip burgers? lol
• sleeper

  

  SportsAndLady;998187 wrote:You wouldn't hire someone with no loyalty to flip burgers? lol

  No. It takes loyalty and $7.30 an hour to flip burgers.
• SportsAndLady

  

  sleeper;998203 wrote:No. It takes loyalty and $7.30 an hour to flip burgers.

  It takes 0 loyalty to flip a burger.
  
  Now, to flip a burger over time...that's where loyalty may come into play
• sleeper

  

  SportsAndLady;998213 wrote:It takes 0 loyalty to flip a burger.
  
  Now, to flip a burger over time...that's where loyalty may come into play

  Clearly you've never hired anyone in your life.
• Heretic

  

  SportsAndLady;998213 wrote:It takes 0 loyalty to flip a burger.
  
  Now, to flip a burger over time...that's where loyalty may come into play

  You'd run to Wendy's the second you saw their stock go up compared to McD's!!!!!!
  
  Oh wait...if you're a fast food burger flipper, obviously reading stock market reports is way out of your league. My bad.
• SportsAndLady

  

  sleeper;998217 wrote:Clearly you've never hired anyone in your life.

  Have I ever hired burger flippers? No..do you enjoy that job?
• karen lotz

  

  SPORTSbyBROOKS SPORTSbyBROOKS
  Multiple sources, including one inside UT football program, told me today Mack Brown will likely be forced out at Texas
  
  
  It is Brooks and he just retweeted something saying 2 officials from Texas deny Mack being forced out.
• stroups

  

  LOL @ sports by brooks.... that guys is wrong about everything
• se-alum

  

  stroups;1000787 wrote:LOL @ sports by brooks.... that guys is wrong about everything

  Yea, he just wants to break stories, so he throws everything out there, hoping something will stick.
• jordo212000

  

  Nothing was funnier than when he claimed Spielman and Herbie were going to be assistants to Meyer
• karen lotz

  

  You have to know he is just hoping like hell he hits on one of these stories.