Quote Originally Posted by acbearkat View Post
I think Texas ties are a little overblown. Mack Brown had few ties to Texas when he was hired at UT, and look how that hire turned out. It certainly helps, though.


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True, but we thought that we could bring in one of colleges most winningest coaches in history from out of state and we didn't fair well. Dorrell didn't have good Texas ties and he wasn't able to recruit very well. It's not necessarily a direct correlation, but we have people in Texas that can recruit better in Texas and out of state both. ACU is not an easy place to recruit to. We often get beat out on the same recruits that went to our rivals. That's going to be the problem regardless of where our coach comes from. Our issue, honestly, is do we hire someone with ACU ties? That seems to be the preference from a lot of our fans. They seem to think that an inner circle person, with Texas ties, can overcome those specific obstacles.