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November 15, 2022
Did Texas Blow Its Chance at TCU Coach Sonny Dykes in 2020?
After the Horned Frogs beat UT Saturday, reports that the Longhorns passed on Dykes for Steve Sarkisian left Texas fans wondering, “What if?”
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Sports
January 4, 2021
The Old Mack’s Still Got It
Mack Brown's UNC Tar Heels fell to Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl, but the former UT coach's personal touch remains strong as ever.
Sports
December 29, 2020
Can the Texas Longhorns Still Be a National Football Powerhouse?
The Longhorns' disappointing 6–3 season closes against Colorado in tonight's Alamo Bowl; but is the program's future any brighter?
Sports
November 21, 2016
If Charlie Strong Is Out, Then What?
Sometimes the best solution is the most obvious one.
Sports
September 15, 2015
Steve Patterson Is Out As Athletic Director At The University Of Texas
The most unpopular man in Austin will now be the most unpopular man somewhere else.
Sports
June 10, 2014
Mack Brown’s Resignation Impacted at Least 103 Coaching Jobs Around the Country
That's at 47 colleges, 4 NFL teams, and 2 high schools, according to some exhaustive reporting from ESPN. What, no CFL?
Sports
May 9, 2014
The Eyes of East Texas Are Upon Him
UT fans meet Charlie Strong.
Sports
February 12, 2014
Not Just Semi-Opinionated
The legendary Dan Jenkins has been covering sports since the forties. Things have not improved.
Sports
December 18, 2013
You Can Bet on Who the Next Longhorns Football Coach Is Going to Be
Well, you can if you live in Nevada, because Internet gambling is illegal. (Wink, wink.) But the betting odds can tell us that holding out hope for Jim Harbaugh is probably a sucker's game.
Sports
December 5, 2013
A Season in Hell
You know, when you’re surveying the struggles of Longhorn nation from Joe Jamail’s skybox, things don’t look so bad.
Politics & Policy
November 7, 2013
And the Next UT Football Coach Is?
Could the rumors that University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban may be the next football coach at the University of Texas be true?
Sports
October 1, 2013
10 People Who Could Be The Next University of Texas Athletic Director
With DeLoss Dodds reportedly announcing his retirement Tuesday afternoon, it's time to speculate about the Longhorns job that's actually more important than head football coach.
Sports
September 29, 2013
College Football Coach Who’s Not Mack Brown Loses His Job
With both USC and UT on the decline eight years after their BCS championship game, the firing of Trojans coach Lane Kiffin inspired lots of talk about Mack Brown and the Longhorns. And it also got tongues wagging in College Station.
Sports
September 20, 2013
Anybody (Nick Saban) Want to (Nick Saban) Talk About (Nick Saban) UT (Nick Saban) and Kansas State (Nick Saban)?
The Longhorns need to beat the Wildcats for the first time in five meetings, but the game's been overshadowed by more questions about Mack Brown's future.
Sports
June 2, 2013
How Close Did UT Really Come to Beating Alabama in 2010?
Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News looks back on "the precise moment when UT transformed from a college football superpower into a bumbling, inept program."
Sports
March 4, 2013
QBs and Pass Catchers Report
The University of Texas, which started its spring practice even earlier than baseball played spring training games, let fans get a look at next year's team over the weekend.
Sports
February 13, 2013
DeLoss Dodds Reads Texas Monthly, Backs Mack Brown, Picks On Missouri
Remember when "Longhorns, Inc." was on the cover of Texas Monthly? So do UT athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky.
Sports
February 6, 2013
Mack Brown Isn’t Interested in “Eye Candy”
Mack Brown is still too genial for trash-talk, but the Longhorns coach managed to slip in a little SEC dig as he sang the praises of his small recruiting class.
Sports
February 5, 2013
Book ‘Em, Horns: UT QB Connor Brewer’s “Campus Watch” Appearance
Longhorns redshirt freshman quarterback Connor Brewer was arrested by University of Texas police over the weekend, which means the details made it into everybody's favorite campus police blotter.
Sports
February 4, 2013
Aggies Beating UT, 32-14 (in Recruiting)
This week, Texas A&M will beat the University of Texas in the only football contest that the two schools currently engage in: recruiting.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UT Prez: Mack Brown Will Remain Head Coach
"Put succinctly, Mack Brown is and will remain the Longhorns’ head football coach," University of Texas at Austin president Bill Powers wrote in a blog post Thursday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
DKR Honored by Willie, Mack Brown
Texas and the University of Texas said goodbye to Longhorns coaching legend Darrell K. Royal at a public memorial service at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Darrell K. Royal, 1924-2012
The best college football coach the state has ever seen died early Wednesday morning at the age of 88. Memories & tributes from the Texas Monthly archives and around the state and country.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown Doesn’t Like the Longhorn Network Either
"I didn't ask for it," the UT football coach said before adding that the ESPN channel gives opposing coaches too much information on his football program.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Mack Brown: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Saturday's loss to Oklahoma had nearly every columnist in Texas speculating about the Longhorns football coach's future, but he dismissed such talk this afternoon.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Horns Aplenty
Will this be the year that the University of Texas Longhorns—the most talented college football team in the country—win their first national title since 1970? Yes. Hook ’em.
Sports
October 31, 2012
Why Mack Brown Won’t Lose His Job
Because DeLoss Dodds, the University of Texas's athletic director, has a long memory.
Sports
December 4, 2011
The Texas Football Coaching Carousel
Texas A&M head coach Mike Sherman marches on as gossip swirls about University of Texas’s Mack Brown’s departure and University of Houston’s Kevin Sumlin’s future.
Sports
August 31, 2011
Because Mack Brown Has Something to Prove
Admit it, non-orangebloods. You took some pleasure in the collapse of the vaunted UT program last season. Well, guess what? Now it’s time for the empire to strike back.
Sports
August 31, 2005
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Him
And why wouldn’t they be? As the head coach of the UT football team, Mack Brown is responsible for the way millions of Texans feel every day.
Sports
August 31, 1998
Watch Out
Advice for the new coaches of the Dallas Cowboys and the UT Longhorns.