Esteemed National Championship Winning Texas Longhorns Leader Shared Insights on Where College Football is Headed Toward
Mack Brown will never have to pay for a drink when he’s inside the state of Texas for as long as he’s around. The legendary coach brought the state’s flagship university to the pinnacle of the college football world, earning a BCS National Title alongside dynamic quarterback Vince Young in 2005.
This past November, he spoke to a large audience at The Rudy Davalos Horseshoe Bay Sports Club in Central Texas. Every month, the organization hosts an array of guest speakers and community sports mixers as it seeks to raise funds to support scholarships for senior athletes in the communities of Llano, Marble Falls, and Burnet, beginning in 2026.
Brown became one of college football’s most successful and enduring coaches. He first gained national prominence at Texas, where he took over a struggling program in 1998 and transformed it into a powerhouse. His crowning achievement came in 2005 when his Longhorns defeated USC in an all-time classic Rose Bowl to win the BCS National Championship—Texas’s first title in 35 years. Brown posted a 158–48 record in Austin, won the 2005 Bear Bryant Coach of the Year award, and developed numerous NFL talents. After resigning from Texas in 2013, he spent several years in broadcasting before returning to coaching at North Carolina in 2019 at age 67. In Chapel Hill, he quickly revived a dormant program, leading the Tar Heels to four straight bowl games and the 2022 ACC Championship Game. Brown became the only coach in history to lead two different programs to top-10 rankings after age 70.
He offered insights into the seismic shifts in the college football landscape today and the repercussions of the rapid pace of change.
“We can’t keep doing what we’re doing,” he said. “It’s absolutely not sustainable.”
Now that athletes can financially capitalize on their name, image, and likeness and participate in revenue-sharing with their respective universities, there is immense pressure to deliver results and ensure you are allocating proper resources as a head coach.
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“The (National Football League) has a better plan for the first time than college football,” Brown told the crowd. “There’s still a core of great kids that are playing that love the game, that care about the game.”
While the dynamics of college football are completely different than even just a year ago when Brown was at North Carolina, he fondly reminisced in front of the Texan crowd about his iconic 2005 season, defeating blueblood powerhouse USC in the Rose Bowl. He described how the team prepared by comparing their performance and statistics each week to those of the Trojans, which had won back-to-back national titles. To this day, it is considered one of the all-time great games in college football history.
“You can’t be in the moment because it’s so big,” Brown said of coaching in the championship game.
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