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Texas is ambitious. I know it's fun to make fun of when they don't get guys they go after...but if you were a longhorn, wouldn't you prefer that rather than the alternative?
The problem is that they are not strategic. Most coaches are not leaving good, well-paying jobs to go to tu. That is just not how it works in modern college athletics. Most big time schools can pay their coaches well. They should have thought strategically and put all the effort into pulling away Schlossnagle or even Tadlock from their schools.That way they get a good coach and hurt an in-state rival. If that fails get the best up and coming HC.
The problem is they are too arrogant to realize it is okay to get a good coach from a rival or even one from a smaller school. It killed them with football. They should have put all their money into getting Patterson or Briles (okay maybe they dodged a bullet on him). Instead they whiffed on their first half-dozen or so choices and basically settled on Strong because he was the best one on paper who would take the job, even though he is a horrible fit.