I always think it’s interesting when people contend a new coach at a school thought to be terrible has some semblance of a decent season (if you can be called being 4th in the north division in one of their weakest years ever being decent), they should be the coach of the year, whereas Mack’s had like ten 10 win season in a row, lost 1 game in the past 2 years (by 1 point on the last 1 second of game play blah blah blah), and has been surprisingly consistent in his winning.

if iowa st had contended for the north title, that’d be something, but to be “not quite as shitty as last year” is not an award in college football.

Mack Brown getting Big 12 Coach of the Year is something of a joke, in my opinion. texas was favored to win the Big 12 South and the conference in the preseason, and they….won the Big 12 South and will play for the conference championship this weekend. What about Paul Rhoads, who took a team picked to finish last in the Big 12 North to a fourth place finish and bowl contention?

Interesting point, but Bob Stoops gets a lot more COTY credit than Mack does most seasons, despite having far more all-conference selections and usually just meeting expectations. I actually think Bill Snyder ought to have been COTY, because he took a team devoid of, well, just about anything, and lost the division title on a head-to-head vs. Nebraska. Rhoads certainly should’ve been in the discussion, though.

The bigger question is why Oklahoma had so many damn selections on the first team. You ask why Kindle was second-team over Acho, but the fact is that he probably deserved to be there, while Acho actually deserved to be first-team. In fact, it’s an absolute joke that Texas had only three players on the first team at all, when UT won three more games (two more just in-conference) than any other team, didn’t lose to any mid-majors, and fielded the best total defense, best rush defense, best scoring defense (not including returns for touchdowns), most turnovers created, and best scoring offense. Compare that to Oklahoma.

By the way, congratulations on Christine Michael. I think that kid’s already a great player, and I believe he’s only scratching the surface of his potential so far.

But wanted to respond to miketag’s suggestions of Rhoads or Snyder. It just seems a little out of whack to give the coach of a year to a coach w/o a winning record. Iowa St. even had a losing conference record. And if you are going to hold the “worst year the conference has had” against Mack, shouldn’t the same principle apply to Rhoads and Snyder, i.e., they didn’t even have a winning record in the worst year the conference has had?

Had Nebraska not lost to Iowa St, I think Pelini (sp?) would have been a fine choice. As is, I think Mack is being rewarded for fielding the only legitimately good team in the conference.

This would be an all together better discussion if the award wasn’t limited to just head coaches.