re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres

It's the BCG @ Kentucky story, minus the alcoholism.

Billy's Stalin-esq approach to discipline and abusiveness at UTEP & A&M worked wonders with players who KNEW they were second-rate and bought-in because they saw his system as their one chance at success.

At Kentucky, where the players knew they were headed to the NBA in a year or so regardless and correctly thought they could compete for natties based on talent alone, nobody would put up with his crap.

Add in the fact that A&M let Billy run rampant and he had no media obligations here, whereas at Kentucky they put him in a media spotlight he wasn't equipped to handle (and expected him to be occasionally sober and upstanding) and you have a recipe for disaster.

Take Charlie, who has some sort of mental disability that makes speaking difficult, put him on the LHN, make him do coach's tours, and watch as he embarrass himself in the public eye. Meanwhile, he's been trying to institute hokey disciplinary measures like "the pit" and signs his players are supposed to tear down while forcing the players into the dorms.

That sort of ultra-discipline - on the football field or the basketball court - can give you the edge when you are coaching a mid-level school with mid-level players against other mid-level schools with mid-level players, (where your "meh" players will win by out-working your opponent's equally "meh" talented, but less fanatical, players) but it looks really unattractive to the 5* football heroes you have to recruit to win and win big on UT's level.