Not to sound like I take our coaches for granted, but I think we will have a little more time with Hodge and Burton. Both are Texas guys who are coaching at their biggest stops yet - none with previous P6 experience. And their alma maters are East Texas A&M and Austin College, who I unbiasedly wouldn't suspect of having the power to "bring their guys home."
Dan McCarney was a decent hire that started to unravel fast due to age, lack of motivation, health issues and alleged alcoholism. The plug should've been pulled much faster than it was. Frankly, a contract ext should've never been handed out and let him sail out into the sunset ASAP after the HoD bowl.
He had 1 good basketball hire and 1 very mediocre football hire. And we're talking about 17ish years on the job. Pretty remarkable. So he damn well had to be good at gladhanding with those accomplishments. Some have tried to take away his part of DATCU being built, and there may be truth to it, but he was here when the approval was done, plans put in place and construction complete. Some credit has to be given there.
RV was very good at the gladhanding portion of the job, and advanced facilities in a way very few other people may have been able to do. Main problem was, outside of Johnny Jones, the man was incapable of picking a good football or basketball coach.
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