UNC fires Mack Brown
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I'm shocked Mack wouldn't just retire instead. But obviously he feels he can still coach and wouldn't give it up.
That'd be a pretty good fit I would think. ACC not nearly as daunting as the SEC and there's a ton of talent down there for Mullen to recruit to.
He would lose his buyout if he retired.
It looks like his buyout is actually one of the lowest in CFB at $2.8M. But still only a dummy just gives up that kind of money.
This is probably more of a mutual parting of ways (with a nice 2.8 million dollar check) and not an actual canning.
Good time to do it for UNC, not a lot of openings, as of right now, so they have a lot of choices.
Good time to do it for UNC, not a lot of openings, as of right now, so they have a lot of choices.
8-1 against NU during his Texas career to be more specific, and that was before we fell off the cliff post-Pelini. I'm going to wager that is the best career record any coach against NU from the Devaney through Pelini eras. Even Switzer didn't have that kind of winning % against NU.
is he? i don't really hear his name floated as a mythical legend..
guy has a Natty, multiple conference championships, and a ton of victories in BCS bowls .
If he retired he wouldn’t get his buyout. Teams are going to be scrambling to be first in line for the best candidates.
i think it's going to take at the very least 1 solid year of coordinating for Dana's name to be in consideration for a P4 HC job.
You'd think but when dominoes start to fall there won't be a lot of high caliber coaches left. I won't be surprised if he ends up replacing someone who moves up from a a power 4 conf team. Arizona State maybe if Dillingham is pursued. OK state..... Iowa state if they end up in the market. So much could happen. I hope he stays for 3 more years at minimum. Pay him as the highest paid coordinator and he just may like that gig more.
Dillingham is an Arizona State alum who wants to see them win big-time games. He's one of the rare guys who will likely not leave for money since he's already at his destination job.
Oklahoma State/Iowa State aren't going to hire a guy whose team was a Big 12 punching bag in 2023.
The biggest threat to Dana's Nebraska tenure is Rhule's stupidity and the possibility of someone like OU offering him a bag to be OC.
Good point. I didn't think of that. Yup, might as well take that money!
That’s the great thing, there is no bag that’s gonna get Dana as OC… he gets 12 mil over the next 4 years from Houston, any offset from us or other school doesn’t pay him more than that.
We are in the drivers seat, so we do what we can to keep him. Name his own assistants, pay any fringe benefits that don’t get offset by his Houston pay, etc
He has a relationship with Rhule, and a couple big years with us and he will be able to get an HC job at many places.
Fingers crossed we can keep him two seasons. Who knows, he may love just being OC again, being HC is a ton of ancillary work that isn’t actually football
Now there are only two active head coaches who have won a national championship.
Which isn’t saying much. Wisconsin owned us too. And now Iowa. But I sure as hell don’t think much of the coaches they have had. Mack Brown owning us had more to do with the sheer mediocrity of the Callahan/Pelini years than his own coaching prowess. He had a good five year run at Texas followed by a big slide. He was basically run out of Austin by the end. You put Tom Osborne at Texas with their money and access to elite recruits and he would have been the Nick Saban of the 70’s and 80’s. Brown is overrated.
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