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2013 Week 2 CFB Open Thread

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Recruiting setbacks, BYU loss should put Mack Brown on Texas' clock

If I'm running the University of Texas, Mack Brown is on the clock. And not that broken clock he thinks he's on, the kind that will never tell him when it's time to go. No, if I'm running Texas, Mack Brown has the rest of this season to fix his football program -- or he's gone. He's gone fondly and appreciatively, but he's gone definitely.
It's about recruiting in general, and it's about that 40-21 loss Saturday at BYU in particular, but it's about more than either of those abominations. It's about the general malaise that happens to a great coach -- and Mack Brown deserves to go down in history as a great coach -- when that coach has been at a place for too long. For some guys, like Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno, staying too long at a school means staying three or four decades and coaching into their 70s or 80s. It means reaching a point where a coach clearly isn't what he was, and neither is his program.

For Mack Brown, it's a decade-and-a-half. It's his 60s. He has been the head coach at Texas since 1998, he is 62 years old, and it sure looks like he has hit the same wall that Paterno hit at Penn State, and that Bowden hit at Florida State. He just hit it a lot faster than they did, probably because -- while Mack Brown deserves to be called great -- he's not anywhere near as great as Paterno and Bowden. They can't all be the best of the best, you know. Someone is first, someone is second, and so on. Paterno and Bowden are near the top of the list of all-time greats. Mack Brown is down the page a bit.

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