Professor Elam

Sunday August 31 2014

Mack Brown the former UT football coach peaked several seasons ago. He had even taken to blaming the team for its failures which brought on several subsequent routs, the oppostition reads the paper apparently.

Here is Granted they played perenial under dog North Texas State but the socre was 38 – 7  Click to read the story. The only reason UNT scored seven was that that UT dropped the ball, literally, in its own end zone. UNT nonly gained 90 yards in 60 plays.

Meanwhile UTSA gave University of Houston nothing to cheer about in UH's new stadium. The Roadrunners won 27-7.

UT's Coach Charlie Strong  earns $5 Million. UTSA's Coach Larry Coker earns $450,000. And the victory over UH was a lot harder in my opinion that beating forver hapless UNT.

Strong kicked ten players off the UT Team since he took over this spring. Infractions include failing to go to class, failing class, or violence against women, two were suspended after being arrested. The rest of the team took notice.

Well here we have the same story. Winning coaches enforce discipline. The formula for success is totally known.

All three of my degrees are from UT Austin. Believe me it is a different culture. Thousands of students come from all over the world. Competitive pressure among the winners is high. But UT understands what it takes to win.

Meanwhile, with tens of thousands of students, UNT and UH wonder why it  can't be that way for them. They slipped into Division 1A Conferences. But alas, they just don't have the winning formula. But then the did not have the formula in Division I B either.

Tx State won the Division II National Championship in 1984. They moved to Division 1 B and were never heard of again for twenty years.

My point is that it is necessary to understand the formula for success. Simply having money or a new stadium, won't get one to the winner's circle.

Notice that UTSA has apparently realized what it takes to have a successful program from the start. But then UTSA is part of the UT system.

Much is written about sports. The reason is that on paper the teams in whatever endeavor are well matched. But whether it be basketball, think University of Kentucky, football, think Alabama, or whatever, some teams are always contenders while others struggle.

San Antonio may be courting the Oakland Raiders to move here. Here is a report on arest records for NFL teams.  NOw contrast that with our own SA Spurs, a model of deportment and

often in the winner's circle. They know the formula for success.