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I think Texas has made 3 good hires since Mack Brown was forced out but the problems are not wholly about coaching though I can't put my finger on the specifics on why

It's not mystery that there has been a culture problem.

Charlie was trying to prove himself, but he just wasn't ready. He kicked off like 20 players and then signed some decent classes, but threw all of those players in the fire from day 1 and they were just not ready for Power 5 football. And they would quit, often, which would result in Texas getting plastered by teams.

Herman felt like he was less trying to prove himself and more so felt like he already had. He had some great recruiting classes and was/still is a smart football mind. But he would refuse to adapt and it would get him burned all the time.

A huge problem for each of them was they thought that since they dominated every coach in the AAC, it would be a cakewalk in the Big 12 because they'd be outrecruiting everybody. That's only half true though. They outrecruited most, but did not know how to beat other coaches. Gary Patterson is a perfect example

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Just don't feel like Texas teams got a lot of fight in them. At least not on a consistent basis

Bingo. One thing I will give to Tom's credit - his teams were tough. They never quit, and even though the losses piled up, they were never out of any game, even if the team across the field was head-and-shoulders better than them (USC '17, Georgia '18, OU every year, etc.). That's a hell of a lot more than Charlie's teams could've said. I think they lost by double digits maybe once or twice, and I'm not the moral victory type, but out of something like 18 losses, that shows they were at least consistently competitive. The problem is, so many of those losses shouldn't have even been competitive to begin with; Texas should've been killing those teams. But they couldn't carry the same intensity against the Iowa States and TCUs of the league like they did against OU and in bowl games