Texas will hire Louisville coach Charlie Strong

[Chrispy]

 

[MrBill]

I think this is a solid hire for Texas. Strong is a good defensive mind and is an excellent motivator. Both areas where the Longhorns needed attention.

 

[JimLeavy59]

I thought they could get ANYBODY?

 

[SuperKevin]

Weird fit honestly. Strong is a very private individual who is going to be reluctant to do all the dog and pony show stuff for the Longhorn Network

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I thought they could get ANYBODY?

Charlie Strong has been the most sought after coach in America for the past three years.

With that said, its a good hire, but I am not sure Charlie Strong is built for the Texas job. We'll see. You recruit a different kind of player then you do at Florida and/or Louisville at Texas.

Charlie Strong has been a HIT in the homes of inner city kids. He and his staff have endeared themselves with many inner-city black families and schools. Almost always one of the first names these kids mention and the one where mom's face immediately lights up when you mention his name, even if the student-athlete goes somewhere other than Louisville. You aren't going into the ghettos to recruit kids for Texas, it is a different kind of athlete, different kind of kid, family, and school.

Nevermind the shit that they do with Longhorn Network.

I'll never knock this as a bad hire, he is a big time coach that everyone wanted...but, I think Strong needs to answer a lot of questions, too.

 

[Mogriffjr]

Charlie Strong has been the most sought after coach in America for the past three years.

With that said, its a good hire, but I am not sure Charlie Strong is built for the Texas job. We'll see. You recruit a different kind of player then you do at Florida and/or Louisville at Texas.

Charlie Strong has been a HIT in the homes of inner city kids. He and his staff have endeared themselves with many inner-city black families and schools. Almost always one of the first names these kids mention and the one where mom's face immediately lights up when you mention his name, even if the student-athlete goes somewhere other than Louisville. You aren't going into the ghettos to recruit kids for Texas, it is a different kind of athlete, different kind of kid, family, and school.

Nevermind the shit that they do with Longhorn Network.

I'll never knock this as a bad hire, he is a big time coach that everyone wanted...but, I think Strong needs to answer a lot of questions, too.

I understand he has a rapport with the inner-city kids but doesn't that make it easier to go into these Texas homes? I'm sure he will adjust though I've heard crootin in Texas is a whole different animal.

 

[NAHSTE]

:dead:

Oh and also...

:lol:

 

[ryne candy]

Cards fans are butthurt because of what he had said in an interview....same HC speak, should you ever really believe it. He has to look out for his family. All HC should just keep this to themselves.

@5:01

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Great start to the Strong era I have to say.

Texas officially announced the hire of Charlie Strong on Monday, but not all of the school's major boosters are on board with the former Louisville coach.

In an interview with ESPN 1250 in San Antonio, billionaire booster Red McCombs criticized the Longhorns' process and suggested that Strong is not on par with the type of candidate that Texas should be hiring to lead its football program.

"I think the whole thing is a bit sideways," McCombs said via ESPN.com. "I don't have any doubt that Charlie is a fine coach. I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator.

"But I don't believe [he belongs at] what should be one of the three most powerful university programs in the world right now at UT-Austin. I don't think it adds up."

According to ESPN, McCombs has donated more than $100 million to the school. His name is on the business school (McCombs School of Business) and he has a statue inside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. McCombs is also the co-founder of Clear Channel Communications and the former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Vikings.

In his comments to ESPN 1250, McCombs reflected on the hire of Mack Brown in contrast to Steve Patterson's hire of Charlie Strong.

"I think it is a kick in the face," McCombs said. "Beyond the fact of what actually happened. We have boosters that have a lot of knowledge about the game. When we decided to go get Mack -- from the time we decided to go get Mack to about 30 hours later to have a press conference here and it was done -- we had a lot of input before we went after him.

"So I don't know what the big rush was. I was kind of pleased that [Texas athletic director Steve] Patterson already said that he'd like to get it done in the middle of January. That seemed logical to me. I'm a team player, but I think they went about it wrong and made the selection wrong."

Every offseason there are boosters who want to be consulted and involved in a program's coaching search. But at Texas, those boosters have a little more name recognition and therefore a bigger platform if they are not pleased. Needless to say, it is not the best start for the Charlie Strong era in Austin.

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