PillsburyDoughboy":wnhpjm7s said:
Ive always admired Charlie Strong. I thought Texas should have given him more time to develop the program there and pretty sure that came up in a discussion here at one point. Had they given him more time I think he would have done well there.
I like Charlie as well, but he had no chance at Texas. They have the most interfering group of high-end boosters that I've ever seen. The hardest part of a coach's job in Austin isn't recruiting and developing, it's dealing with the oil-money boosters who all think they know how to coach football, and threaten to hold back their donations if the coach doesn't do things their way.
Texas has the second largest endowment in the country (behind Harvard), the largest sports budget, and sits right in the middle of some of the richest recruiting ground in the world where every boy playing Pop Warner dreams of being a Texas Longhorn and a Dallas Cowboy. They should be in the hunt for the national championship every year, but their own boosters won't get out of their way. Charlie is better off somewhere else, and I'm glad we've got him helping out in T-town for time being.