re: Aggies, are you guys concerned at all about Strong at UT?

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The culture at UT has historically brought them a lot of success. Mack was the issue.

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Actually the culture at Texas had historically hurt their chances of football success.

Brown was by far their second most successful coach, and the first since the 70's. The culture around Austin demands all sorts of things that is not winning- look good, don't cheat, graduate actual student athletes, placate the booster factions, etc. The culture values that stuff more than wins.

Brown was successful because he was such a politician he controlled the culture. DKR was successful because he was so strong he ruled the culture (it was less powerful back then too). Every coach between DRK and Brown got eaten alive by the culture. Not saying Strong will, but to imply their culture has helped them on the field is simply false.

There is a reason that the richest program in the country has played for and won the same amount of modern national titles as the second best school in Alabama. Texans simply demand too much style to go along with their winning to make it easy. This same demand has held us back too, and is part of the reason we are historic underachievers.