Posted on 01/07/2014 2:58:42 PM PST by Third Person
Longtime booster Red McCombs is not a fan of Texas' decision to hire coach Charlie Strong away from Louisville, calling it a "kick in the face" during a radio interview Monday.
"I think the whole thing is a bit sideways," McCombs said of the selection process during an interview with ESPN 1250 San Antonio. "I don't have any doubt that Charlie is a fine coach. I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator. "But I don't believe [he belongs at] what should be one of the three most powerful university programs in the world right now at UT-Austin. I don't think it adds up."
McCombs, the former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Vikings and co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, said on "The Blitz with Dat Nguyen and Jason Minnix" that he was stunned to learn Strong was the choice to replace Mack Brown. He publicly lobbied last week for Texas to hire former NFL coach and ESPN analyst Jon Gruden.
"I think it is a kick in the face," McCombs said. "Beyond the fact of what actually happened. We have boosters that have a lot of knowledge about the game. When we decided to go get Mack -- from the time we decided to go get Mack to about 30 hours later to have a press conference here and it was done -- we had a lot of input before we went after him. "So I don't know what the big rush was. I was kind of pleased that [Texas athletic director Steve] Patterson already said that he'd like to get it done in the middle of January. That seemed logical to me. I'm a team player, but I think they went about it wrong and made the selection wrong."
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“He publicly lobbied last week for Texas to hire former NFL coach and ESPN analyst Jon Gruden.”
His guy Mike Tice wasn’t available?
Michael Wilbon, a racemongerer on ESPN, was bashing McCombs today for not being progressive enough.
Strong? Get Snapped up? By who? The Cleveland Browns? I don’t think another week would have mattered.
Malzahn was ABSOLUTELY available. Texas could afford his buyout clause. Hell, Strong cost us $4MM. Gus would have been less than $10MM. That’s no sweat.
Strong will be t.u.’s Kevin Sumlin. As an Aggie I hate to see it. He will do well.
How do you figure? Malzahn has only been at Auburn one year, and they were in the National Championship game. Auburn also won in 2009. What would he gain by going to Texas?
The same Red McCombs who is Chairman of the Board of Academi (formally Blackwater)?
Interesting.
http://academi.com/pages/about-us/board-of-directors
I’m just glad they didn’t go after Art Briles. Hopefully he’ll be available when Arkansas admits they screwed up.
I remember this fat old turd running around yelling “Purple Pride”.
When UConn hired Paul Pasquilini after Randy Edsel took the Maryland job, Burton, a big money man, blasted that hire.
Oh... I don't know. Maybe $2MM a year in higher salary and promotional deals.
Might not be enough for Gus... if he's happy where he is. But, I wish they'd at least discussed it with him.
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