Just thought some of this was worth overreacting to on a Saturday morning, nearly 12 years later...
* Tyrone Swoopes his playing this season, because Mack wants a backup with experience for next year. He said Swoopes was great as a junior in HS, then had the eye situation where he had blurred vision and wasn't as good as a senior. But now the Texas coaches think he's "ahead of Vince Young" at the same point. Mack said VY ran 4.65 and that Swoopes runs 4.7.
* Mack said Manny Diaz got things figured out toward the end of last year and that they've had "tough conversations" about what's expected. Mack said Diaz had other opportunities, but when I pressed him on it, he wouldn't say what they were. He said, "I would have fired him if I didn't think he could do the job. But he was recommended by Nick Saban."
*Mack FINALLY admitted when it comes to the offensive line that he has "not done a good enough job of looking out of state when the ones in state weren't good enough." Mack actually said after the national championship when some of the linemen got in trouble academically (J'Marcus Webb and Alfio Randall) that Texas "went too smart and too bright and not competitive enough. That's what bothered me the most is that our guys up front weren't competitive enough." He thinks Stacy Searels is fixing it with the guys they've been recruiting, especially last year's class of OL (Darius James, Kent Perkins, Rami Hammad, etc.). Mack called that class of OL "the best I've ever see
* Tyrone Swoopes his playing this season, because Mack wants a backup with experience for next year. He said Swoopes was great as a junior in HS, then had the eye situation where he had blurred vision and wasn't as good as a senior. But now the Texas coaches think he's "ahead of Vince Young" at the same point. Mack said VY ran 4.65 and that Swoopes runs 4.7.
* Mack said Manny Diaz got things figured out toward the end of last year and that they've had "tough conversations" about what's expected. Mack said Diaz had other opportunities, but when I pressed him on it, he wouldn't say what they were. He said, "I would have fired him if I didn't think he could do the job. But he was recommended by Nick Saban."
*Mack FINALLY admitted when it comes to the offensive line that he has "not done a good enough job of looking out of state when the ones in state weren't good enough." Mack actually said after the national championship when some of the linemen got in trouble academically (J'Marcus Webb and Alfio Randall) that Texas "went too smart and too bright and not competitive enough. That's what bothered me the most is that our guys up front weren't competitive enough." He thinks Stacy Searels is fixing it with the guys they've been recruiting, especially last year's class of OL (Darius James, Kent Perkins, Rami Hammad, etc.). Mack called that class of OL "the best I've ever see
