Ole Miss' opponent this week puts the Eddie Lacey spin move in to journalism

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A light breeze wisped through Darrell K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium on Sunday evening as the gray-headed man in the black tee shirt and orange workout shorts came sprinting through the tunnel at the south end of Joe Jamail Field to join a Longhorn practice which had just gotten underway.

These, in their own way, were the winds of change.

Fewer than eight hours before, Greg Robinson was getting ready to take the hour and a half drive from his home in Southern California to Los Angeles International Airport, where he would board a flight to Austin to help the Texas coaching staff begin to prepare for their upcoming game with Ole Miss on Saturday.

It was shortly after 11 a.m. when the phone rang as he was packing to leave. And Mack Brown made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Hours earlier, on the flight home from Texas' disappointing performance in a 40-21 loss to BYU, Brown had studied the video of what had been a record setting offensive performance by the Cougars. He knew what he had to do.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - harder in the game of college football than making changes on a coaching staff. It is hard because it strikes at the very core of the profession. It deals with relationships, it goes to the very heart of "family."

But two games into the 2013 season, following a tough year before, Mack Brown realized that he had no choice but to reassign defensive coordinator Manny Diaz and go in a new direction. As it turned out, he went in an old direction - one that had been immensely successful.

That is why the phone rang at the home of Greg and Laura Robinson on Sunday morning. In late summer, Robinson had agreed to help the Longhorns in a role as an analyst in the new area of player personnel, breaking down the opponents' videos each week for the Texas staff. It was a role he had filled last season for his old friend Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL.

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If ever there was a call for "Mr. Fix-It," it had come for Robinson. And he wasted no time in getting started. For the Texas defense, it would be back to the "old school" basics. Facilities assistant Brook Whitaker had already begun refurbishing "The Duke," an apparatus geared to help players with proper technique for tackling form and handling blockers.

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