We’re not Alabama, USC, Texas, Michigan or any of the blue blood football programs. So why is it so hard for the fan base to accept small victories and realize that it took Mack 7 years to win at Texas. It’s a long process, it took Harbaugh 7 years to get Michigan rolling, Saban is a special coach in a football centric state. The reality is to compare to the Mack Brown run at Texas, Sam is our Major Applewhite, Drake is our Chris Simms, the next hurdle is finding our Vince Young and Colt McCoy along with building a good defense and special teams
So you are satisfied with never being really good? Bama basketball fans who say that they should be happy to win anything at basketball because they are not UNC are booed by almost all other Bama basketball fans.
What do you mean it took Mack 7 years to win at Texas? In his 1st year, Texas won a Major Bowl: the Cotton. In his 4th and 5th years the Longhorn finished 11-2, with another Cotton Bowl W.
What Mack could not do at Texas is dominate the South division, much less the Big 12, because he was often outcoached, and not just by Bob Stoops. Mack could have the top rated Big 12 recruiting class 9 of 10 years and still have Texas finish tied for 2nd in the division. And that's why I doubt that Mack can ever win much of anything important at UNC in his old age. He is no longer 60, much less 50. He's heading right for 75, and anybody with any sense knows that coaches that old almost never win much that is close to Big, and when they do, it is because it was built well before then. Coaches that old all, before long, begin to lose what had been built.
Here is an example: In retrospect, it is clear that FSU under Bobby Bowden began its downturn, from which Bowden could never right the ship, in 2001. I think Bowden was then only 70. And even he, with
14 consecutive teams ranked in the final Top 5, could not keep FSU going at the top level. The longer Bowden remained as HC, the deeper the issues became.
The longer Mack remains as UNC HC, the deeper the issues we have seen over the past 2 seasons will get. There certainly can be individual highlights, some great WS her and there, but the issues will not be solved and the program overall will remain mediocre, or even get bad.
By the way, Sonny Dykes has TCU in the Playoff in his 1st season there.