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Liveblogging Mack Brown’s postgame press conference

Posted by HenryJames on September 2nd, 2007 under Football

This should be fun. Cleve Bryant is patting everyone down as they enter the room. That’s not a gun, Cleve. I’m just happy to see you.

Talking about Arkansas State.

“The quarterback is really a good football player. We thought he was coming in. He made play after play with his feet. I thought we managed everything else but him, but we let him make some plays.”

Stopping the QB is overrated. He was only their best player. He only touched the ball every play.

“So congratulations to Steve Roberts and Arkansas State, because they came in and really represented themselves well.”

Aside from making off with all the towels and soap from their hotel.

Talking about Texas now. Bill Little just gulped down a handful of Prozac.

“I thought the kids tried hard.”

Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda said that.

“What I didn’t think we did well, sort of what I told them was, ‘We didn’t finish things.’”

It was like getting a massage with no ‘happy ending.’

Asked if he was hard on the team after the game. Press breaks out in riotous laughter.

“After the game?”

Still laughing. Sides hurting.

“No, because I told them here, this place is so hard on them.”

Memorial Stadium is like Thunder Dome. Two teams enter, one team leaves.

“Here we can win by 40 and people are mad.”

Ah, there it is. Our fans are mean. Win by 40, lose twice to OU by 50. Same thing. Brown is a nihilistic disciplinarian.

“You hit the quarterback late twice, and you’re going to pay for it.”

Well, the team will pay with a 15 yard penalty, but as an individual you’ll still start every game. Robert Killibrew is the Eddie Haskell to Mack’s June Cleaver.

“If you can’t score from the 1-yard line, that’s not good. We do that again and I bet we score next week.”

Counting the cash I have on hand. Easy money.

Talking about the running game.

“They were blitzing a whole lot and taking a bunch of chances.”

They didn’t play fair. When Greg Davis draws up our running plays on paper, the defense never run blitzes. He’ll draw some up against run blitzes next offseason.

Talking about the offensive line.

“I do want to see why people ran through as much as they did on their blitzes. I want to see why, I don’t know why unlike you all, I just watched and listened and I couldn’t figure it out”

Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job!

“Tonight is why NFL teams have preseason games. They can work through things and we can’t.”

That’s why you put Arkansas St on the schedule. To ‘work through things.’

Asked about balancing the positives and negatives.

“I have both.”

If you put them on a seesaw, Brown’s negatives would be in the air.

“I think one of the things here we need to overcome is we’ve won so many games so easily, that the players and coaches get a little flustered when it’s not as easy and that’s why I’m honestly really happy that we won and it wasn’t easy. Because it’s going to be a whole lot easier to go back and coach next week than if it had been 66-0.”

Brown likes having bad coaches because it makes it easier for them to coach badly? Is this a riddle?

“The whole team is too hard on themselves. We’ve got to get them to relax a little bit more and enjoy playing and not expect to have to do everything perfect.”

Or even mediocre.

“That’s one of the reasons people enjoy college football, people mess up.”

Greg Davis makes Texas football fun.

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  1. Woody Bombay said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am

    I feel sick.

  2. Scipio Tex said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am

    I was looking forward to reading this. Thanks.

    How is it I knew the “Texas fans are mean” card was going to be played?

  3. MrWyatt said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:25 am

    I move for a vote of no confidence

  4. Facebook User said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 am

    I am flabbergasted that he hasn’t pointed out how lucky we are to NOT be Michigan. I guess he’s such good friends with LLoyd.

  5. captainamerica said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am

    I totally blew this with my press conference predictions. They were, in order, I believe:

    What a great day for college football.

    You have to tip your hat to Arkansas State. They’re a good team that played a great game.

    There are 110,000 people in Ann Arbor who would be glad to trade places with us tonight.

    Arkansas State has a team that some people say should be ranked in the top 25. They’re probably going to win their conference.

  6. longhornmatt said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Were there really no mentions of good kids from good families who graduate? His section about how we put too much pressure on the poor Texas football players seemed like a perfect opportunity to slip that in.

    I am glad for Mack’s sake that he doesn’t coach in the SEC. I think Phyllis from Mulga alone could break him. It’s truly a shame that fans can be so mean.

  7. ChrisApplewhite said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    One of these days Mack is just going to answer entirely in claps.

  8. BiggUggly said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    Are we allowed to dislike Cleve Bryant, or is he the front guy for this ongoing fraud because it would be racist to hate a black guy?
    Cleve Bryant is one of the most dislikeable people that I have known.

    If that man told me the sun was shining, and it was important, I would get a second opinion.

  9. jimmyjazz said:

    September 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 pm

    Are we allowed to dislike Cleve Bryant

    I would have gone with “are we disallowed from liking Cleve Bryant”, but that’s pretty much my only complaint. Carry on, all.

  10. El Capitan said:

    September 3rd, 2007 at 8:29 am

    Has any fanbase had less faith in their coaching staff this soon after a MNC?

    ANOTHER record for the Brown era.

  11. Macanudo said:

    September 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 am

    Has any other fan base had the reasons to have less faith?

  12. El Capitan said:

    September 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am

    I’m not disagreeing with the sentiment, just acknowledging it.

    Mack is soft and becoming softer.

  13. mileslong said:

    September 4th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    ““The whole team is too hard on themselves. We’ve got to get them to relax a little bit more and enjoy playing and not expect to have to do everything perfect.”
    yeah why shoot for excellence? mediocrity is so much more accessible and easy to teach…

  14. kurtosis_skew said:

    September 5th, 2007 at 11:02 am

    I submit that it’s impossible to successfully implement the Bobby Bowden paradigm (talent = Exp[coaching]) at a school with academic standards and no bagman on call.

  15. BigSatan said:

    September 5th, 2007 at 11:06 am

    We get high and mighty about Academic Standards when it comes to the OU’s of the world, but lets face it, we have the same 800 SAT score minimum for Big 12 players and we use it.

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