What. A. Fucking. Loser.
Mack Brown wasn't my first choice 6 years ago when he was rehired, but once it was clear we were strongly considering him I was hopeful he could come in and rebuild the program. And I was excited when it seemed he was doing that. And when we fell off a cliff 2 seasons ago, i was frustrated but thought he deserved a chance to run it back with Drake to see if he could lead us to a better season last year. And then when we fell off a cliff last year I was ready for him to go, but I understand that "8 wins is pretty good in Chapel Hill" and that it's hard to fire a guy doing a little better than our historical average. And even as poorly as we've played this year and as unfathomably poorly as we played today, I would have been ok supporting the program with Mack at the helm through the end of the season and then celebrating him as he rode off into retirement at the end of the year.
But, after this absolute shit-show of a performance, to go into the locker room and announce you're willing to retire but to put the burden on the players to talk you out of it? Those are the actions of a fucking coward. Not even enough leadership to go into the locker room and either rally the players for future games or announce that you've obviously lost the ability to coach the team and you're retiring. Instead you need the players to pump you up and tell you it's ok and make them rally you into continuing to coach the team.
He needs to be called into the ADs office tomorrow morning to see what he plans to do. And if it's not retire, then he needs to be walked out of the building and told his stuff will be packed up and sent to him. How in the world can anyone think he can walk back into that locker room and lead those players? To tell them that they should follow him out there onto the field after he needed them to make him feel better after that ass-kicking?
I was pissed by the way he left in 1997, but I understood his decision-making and why he would go to Texas. But making the players console him after the game and convince him not to retire? Fuck him in the ass with a giant cactus.