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Sounds like BS to me.
When presented with national media opportunities to enhance the Cardinals’ profile, he routinely rejected them. Getting him to make promotional appearances that could enhance donor relations was an exercise in frustration.
Translation: he didn’t like to stroke the media. Who cares?
He left a lot of administrators and support personnel at Louisville exasperated at his unwillingness to do anything to sell the program outside the cocoon of the Howard Schnellenberger Football Complex.
Translation: He didn’t strong-arm or sweet-talk boosters at UL. Guess what? Neither is required at Texas.
Win…and nothing else matters.
Don’t win enough…and nothing else matters.Charlie Strong will win at Texas. A no nonsense coach players love to play for. Screw the PR crap. Mack was a perennial 8 game winner playing that game. An excuse for every loss. Two years and Texas is back in the hunt.
Mack Brown. Perhaps Brown’s best trait is his people skills: he made every out-of-town media visitor feel like an old friend; he was charming and indulgent with overly interested boosters; and he carried that winning personality with him into high schools and living rooms.
And what, exactly, did that get Brown once he started replace 11 and 10 win seasons with 8 W’s per year? Texas was 13-0 and playing for the national championship as late as Jan 2010. Four years later, with 8, 9, and 8 wins that last 3 seasons, respectively, he’s shown the door.
I do think there is some truth to it. Texas is a unique job. Brown was quite the politician and the local and national media adored him. This kept him in his job the past few years after things quickly headed south. Strong is a very solid coach but will have to adjust to this environment.
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