Well, yeah. Sooners hired Gibbs, Schenlly, and Blake. The ags hired Franchione, Sherman, Sumlin, and Fisher. Alabama hired Dubose, Franchione, Price, and Shula.
Bad Leadership in all those cases? Or bad luck? Was anyone TRYING to hire bad coaches?
You're a smart guy but you never fail to crack me up when you go into neanderthal Sooner-mode. It's like the very mention of Texas makes you shut down your brain.
Hah!
Gibbs was a mediocre hire; Schnelly and Blake were terrible ones. Bad leadership was definitely in play at OU at the time. the A.D. position was a revolving door and the two presidents involved were not focused on football. David Boren came on a year before the Blake hire, but he did not intervene to prevent it, as he might have done a year or two later. Then, President Boren and A.D. Castiglione were effective and consistent supporters of the football program for the entire time of Bob Stoops' time as OU HFC.
Nobody tries to hire bad coaches.
Texas radio mediots ask some of the same questions I've asked. I've heard clips of them played on Oklahoma sports.
Maybe the very mention of Texas makes their brains shut down too.
Nebraska's fall is more understandable. Recruiting has been a problem since they lost connections with State of Texas recruits. And, I would say, they've had bad leadership.
But Texas has a lot more money than Nebraska does, has 3 of the largest 10 cities (a.k.a. media markets) in the USA, has the Great State of Texas from which to recruit, as well as a bigger national brand. And, yet, Texas over the last 10-12 years is effectively Nebraska. It's a situation that makes people wonder what is going on.
After all that, it's fine with me if it continues.
