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I love that Schloss has gone hard on Pitchers this time around. He's determined not to be short handed this year. I think he'll make a playoff run this time, but that's just my uneducated two cents.

Also, I agree with everyone about Steve Patterson, that guy ruined a lot. No mistaking that. But you can't deny that while Mack had some great seasons, he did under perform, for his talent level, etc. Though Mack was never a great X's and O's guy, he was a good leader and program builder at Texas. I'm not sure Saban would've made much of a difference with the leadership around Texas at that point. I'm hoping that we're determined to NEVER let it get to that point again.

After that Natty loss to Bama, he was never really the same, for some reason. But we're always thankful for him for that 2005 title and recruiting Vince Young. Though he could've definitely had a few more under his belt before that, imo. Either way, I'm fine with him hanging around. Although if he starts talking about coaching again...lol.

Ever since Mack had to try and worm his way back in things are getting weird. Damn Mack karma🤣. Topped off today with Sark's weird bathroom analogy which is viral all over now. Just go back to NC til after football is over please, and help Sally make cookies for BB and his girl Jordan🙏

The committee was enamored with Patterson’s presentation and how he ran pro organizations. They felt that was the way colleges sports would be going and wanted to be ahead of the curve. (Man, were they wrong) Luck was a shoe in until then. Patterson would have preferred to keep Brown, although you are right that he was willing to pull the trigger if needed. But that wasn’t the reason for the hire. Luck would have pulled the trigger too if he was told to. 100% agree that leadership was lacking from multiple positions at the time and DeLoss had a part in it, although he wanted Luck not Patterson. Powers was a major liability in all of it. My major point is that these decisions, especially Patterson were the biggest reasons for our decade of mediocrity, not Mack Brown. Patterson interviewed coaches that had used every connection they had to get the Texas job and they walked away after talking to him. Multiple coaches. It was that bad, but people really want to think Nick Saban was going to leave Alabama to come into that situation.

Thanks for posting here @DirectorsCupUpdates🤘

That’s nothing like Muschamp, absolutely nothing. Muschamp is a Saban clone and would’ve been F bombs galore and have you ready to run through a wall.

Very Muschamp esq, that's fire. Nothing wrong with wanting your team to have a killer instinct. Put games away with authority, force the fear into them.

What is the Director's Cup? The Director's Cup is an award presented to the collegiate athletic department that achieves the highest level of success across a variety of sports, both men's and women's, during the academic year. Points are awarded, from 5-100 points, based on each teams placement in the NCAA sponsored championship competition for each sport. Failure to be included in the NCAA sponsored championship competition equates to 0 points score. The champion in each sport is awarded 100 points and the points beyond that vary based on the size of the bracket or number of teams included in the competition. Each school can include points scored by 19 different teams, regardless of gender. 5 of the 19 teams included must be Volleyball, W Soccer, W Basketball, M Basketball and Baseball. After those 5 sports are included, the next highest 14 scores are used to determine the final score. History The Director's Cup was started in the 93-94 season by USA Today and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and continues with these relationships today with the addition of Learfield as a corporate sponsor. In the inaugural season, The University of North Carolina won the cup while Stanford finished in 2nd place. Stanford would then go on to win the next 25 Director's Cup until Texas won their first during the 20-21 season. Texas would win a second cup during the 21-22 season with Stanford winning by a thin margin in 22-23. Texas has since gone back to back once again winning the Cup in 23-24 and 24-25. The original scoring system differed from the one described above. For the first 25 years schools could include points from their top 10 men's sports and top 10 women's sports which would be added together to give the grand total score. This system made it very challenging for schools with smaller departments, including Texas, to outright win the cup. In 1993 Texas had 9 Men's sports and 8 Women's Sports. In the early 2000s sports like W Soccer, Rowing and Softball had been added on the Women's side but Texas still did not field 10 Men's teams. The scoring system was changed to the current system for the 2017-18 season and the move away from gender specific scoring, decreasing the number of sports from 20 to 19 and adding required sports has made the cup more competitive (at least slightly). Texas would have won only 1 Director's Cup under the old scoring system.

Got a couple others last week too right?

I don’t know when but we’re going to win a championship with Schloss here and maybe several.

Chris Del Conte and the Texas Longhorn put a bow on the 24-25 athletic season during halftime of the Longhorns game against San Jose State by accepting a newly designed (and thankfully crystal once again) Director's Cup Trophy. This marked the 4th time the Longhorns have secured this award in the last 5 years. It is now time to turn our attention fully to the 25-26 athletic season and that is what I hope to do in this thread. While Football puts the F in OTF, the Longhorns boast many successful programs on the 40 and we will highlight those here in this thread. Any sport that isn't covered in detail elsewhere on the forum will be covered here. I don't claim to be an expert in all 20 of these sports but will do my best to bring the news to the thread and add any flavor beyond that as I am able. If you have a good understanding of a sport discussed here, please feel free to add your input and become our local expert, it would be greatly appreciated. I'll also use this thread to post Director's Cup scoring updates, predictions and other info related to the Cup. I hope you all enjoy following along through the year as Texas goes after their 5th Cup!

Red banquet Mack x 2.

Schloss and his staff reeled in two big commitments today for the 2027 class. The first was catcher Lee Holt of Denmark HS in Georgia. Holt is one of the top catchers in the 2027 class. The second came just a bit ago, when RHP J. Beckett Berg pulled the trigger and announced his commitment to the Horns.

Your timeline is off. If Deloss wasn’t such a coward he would have been but Oliver luck, who would have been our AD(not Patterson), wanted the Mack thing settled before taking job. Steve said he’d pull the trigger. Just bad leadership around that time with AD and president.

Corny head coach and corny QB. Fit right in in Nebraska

This is false and will always be false no matter how many times people say it and believe it. Hate to tell yall this but the “Big Cigar” or whatever his name was fed the fan base multiple lies. Nick Saban was not going to work for Steve Patterson. It still amazes me that Mack takes all the blame for what Steve Patterson did to this program. Mack left it better than he found it. Once game away from playing for the Big 12 Championship. Patterson came in and completely wrecked everything from top to bottom. I cannot think of one thing he did that helped Texas in any way. Billy Lucci couldn’t have wrecked this athletic department worse than Patterson did. A complete disaster that took years to recover from. But let’s blame Mack Brown. It is so dumb.

He’s no Auggie Garrido

How can we put this? Mack was a better program builder than he was an actual football coach. I remember being frustrated much more often than satisfied. As a fan, I'm happy to recognize him for taking the Longhorns back to the top and re-establishing Texas football. There's really nothing to be gained by being churlish and pointing out what didn't happen.

LOVE it

When he flashes he really flashes. Unfortunately his fizzles are pretty spectacular too. Nobody gets to skip the QB learning curve. Not even a Manning.

Ok, fair . He has a podcast with VY though. So he is a little involved in pumping up the brand.

I guess you weren’t around or don’t know your history. Joe Jamail’s contributions were because of Mack. I can come up with some more given time that are directly linked to Mack’s ability to raise money and generate excitement . You can maybe argue on the coaching or other pieces of the legacy (not beating OU enough), but Mack being a politician that brought in the donations and funding for us being on top is objective, not subjective .