(08-02-2017 06:49 AM)Owl1998 Wrote:  

(08-01-2017 11:38 PM)exowlswimmer Wrote:  

(08-01-2017 11:25 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Wayne's not killing the program... You guys need to get that out of your minds because it's insane. It's still by leaps and bounds the best program we have and any comparisons are laughable. If you want to argue that he's no longer a miracle worker and is returning to still be only one of the top 20 or so coaches in the game, that's fine... but the idea that there's another top 10 coach out there just clamoring for the job is a fantasy. Texas pays a coach whose best year has barely reached Wayne's LOWEST performance in the past 2+ decades more than we'd pay Wayne OR his replacement... and by a large margin. That same guy only stayed at Tulane, who is perhaps most comparable to us in many ways... for 1 year.

+1000
Hamebone, haven't seen eye to eye on every issue but you have hit the nail on the head. Wayne singlehandedly built this program! Clone Wayne and his doppelganger will have Rice (not the city of Houston) hosting the 2032 games here.

Uh, Hambone, I'm quite positive you've completely misread what I've been saying. Never have I said the OG is killing the program. EVER. He IS the program in my eyes and is a living legend.

What IS killing the program is the uncertainty of the situation. Like Walt explained quite nicely...we have still yet to hire a replacement for Van Hook. And losing VH led to the loss of Rivera (2019). Now, we lose Madden...a hometown kid who played for Coach Pope. This is clearly a trend that wreaks of poaching by other schools that use the uncertainty against us. If JK doesn't resolve the issue of the OG's contract then this trend will continue.