In his role as an ESPN analyst, Mack Brown hasn't talked about Texas a lot.
In August, he even said he had made an agreement to not talk about his former program with new Texas coach Charlie Strong.
But on Wednesday, Brown talked at length about Texas and its new coach. Brown was on the Paul Finebaum Show and was asked about the transition from him to Strong. Since he started at Texas, Strong has dismissed nine players including OT Kennedy Estelle, the latest Longhorn to leave the program.
Brown compared the transition of regimes to a marriage involving stepchildren and said that since Strong is now the coach, he has the right to do what he needs to do and that Brown hasn't talked to any of the nine dismissed players. The Austin American-Statesman reported Tuesday that Strong had upped Texas' drug testing program.
"When a coach comes in and takes over a new program, he's adopting 125 new stepchildren," Brown said. "Some of them love the place but a lot of them love the coaches, they came for a different offense, they came for a defense, and every coach is different. All have some similarities but all are different."
"The other thing I've always thought is that when the coach leaves the program he's like the ex-wife. He's gone. He's out. 'She was nice, we liked her, had some great moments and it all worked, but now she's gone' and everyone's excited about the new wife. And that's the way it should be. When you've got a program like Texas or one like USC, every little thing is scrutinized. Charlie had two players leave in the spring. And now that he's had some leave in the fall, it's gotten a lot more attention than it would, say, in a transition at a lot of the other schools that don't get as much attention. But there were kids that left when I came here, there were kids who left when Nick went to Alabama. That's part of it, you're just going to have that. And one thing about Texas, it's the good and the bad."
Brown continued, and brought up Florida State's treatment of Jameis Winston, who was recently suspended for the Clemson game after he shouted a lewd remark at FSU's student union.
"It is a lightning rod," he said. "When I asked coach (Darrell) Royal, what's the best thing about coaching at Texas, he said '27 million people care about what you do every day of your life.' I said what's the worst thing about coaching at Texas, and he said '27 million people care about what you do every moment of your life.'"
"So I've turned all of these thoughts over to Charlie Strong. It's his team, he has a right to do whatever he wants and I have not had an opinion of those. I have not talked to the parents, I haven't talked to the kids. I do know, and I think Charlie would tell you the same thing, no coach ever wants to run off a kid. You want to save him, just like Jameis. You want to give him a second chance, maybe even a third chance because you're talking about a life here. And when you do run one off, you've lost him. It's hard to help him from that standpoint. I'm sure if you talked to Charlie he would say it hurts him to have a kid leave the team as well."
You can listen to the entire interview here, it's well worth it.
Brown also talked about the number of rumors surrounding college football and his role as a former insider with knowledge of specifics. Earlier Wednesday, a Texas spokesperson said there were no plans for a meeting between Strong and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, a possibility that was reported earlier in the day.
Spokesperson for Texas says a meeting between Charlie Strong, Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith has not been set #Longhorns #HookEm
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