I have to agree with both of you . ooloDTC and PflichtAngabe . At the moment they aren ' t bothering anyone and are rather helpful . But what if this changes in the future ? What if SD gets elected in Sweden and they throw a tandrum . We should have plan in the back of our heads just in case . <| sep |> Haha ! You think this is only in the last decade . Good one ! The short answer is that the football job has always been emblematic of the fight for control between the administration , who on paper should run things , and boosters , who actually fund things . If the administration had as their goal to win football games , it wouldn ' t be so bad , but the last time that was the case was when Frank Erwin Jr . ran the roost . So we get Fred Akers , David McWilliams , and John Mackovic . None of whom were atrocious hires per se , but they were all hired for reasons other than winning championships . Mack Brown was the first coach hired for the right reasons since Darrell Royal , and that only happened because George Bush was governor and named Tom Hicks and Donald Evans to the board of regents . It ' s not a complete clusterfuck until the dust settles . I don ' t care how the sausage is made . I ' m willing to hold judgement until it ' s done . But the baseball hiring process has given me the heebie jeebies about this day since it transpired . Hopefully Herman will be given a substantial offer , he ' ll accept , and we ' ll all move on to seeing if he actually works out or not .