Mack Brown is a Sore Looser
Mack Brown, the coach of the University of Texas football team, placed the bulk of the blame for his team’s 24-7 loss to Ohio State on the new clock rules instituted for this season. According to him, the new rules robbed his team of 22 minutes that could have been used to mount a comeback. I think that he needs to watch the game again. At most, the new rules took about two minutes of game time away from both teams, combined. Two minutes is hardly enough time to rattle off 17 points against a defense that had stopped all but one of the team’s scoring attempts. If 22 minutes of the game were lost due to the new rules, it would be like loosing over a quarter of the game, which certainly didn’t happen. I think that Mack just needs to cope with the fact that his team is not the best in the nation (and that he will never win a national championship without Vince Young) and get on with his life. At least he has a pretty ring to look at for the rest of his life. (He’s lucky that Troy Smith didn’t start last year’s game, otherwise he wouldn’t have any championship rings, but that’s another story.)
