SMU is going to make sure they cover all their bases when searching for their new head football coach and that included calling former Texas head coach Mack Brown. SMU reached out to Brown recently to gauge his interested in returning to coaching and Brown has turned them down.
The powers in place at SMU would have been silly not to at least give it a shot. SMU reportedly called Mack Brown about the coaching vacancy at SMU, but Brown has told the school he is not interested in coaching. At least, not right now.
Brown, the former head coach of the Texas Longhorns, has already been approached with a handful of coaching offers, but he has turned them all down, according to Brown’s attorney, Joe Jamail. In a report by Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman, Jamail says Brown is comfortable away from the sidelines for right now, but he does miss coaching on Saturdays. Jamail says Brown has been called with questions regarding comparable pay, but which schools made those calls was not reported. SMU was the only school Jamail confirmed had contacted Brown.
“He was approached, I was approached, but he’s not interested in coaching anywhere right now,” Jamail said in the report. “He misses it, frankly, but he loves being on ESPN.”
I admire SMU for at least swinging for the fences on their coaching search, but I don’t think Mack Brown returns to coaching and if he does I don’t think it will be for a rebuild project like SMU. I think the Mustangs need to go find a young, offensive mind with ties to the state of Texas. A few names off the top of my head are Chad Morris (Clemson OC), Jake Spavital (Texas A&M OC) and Lincoln Riley (ECU OC). It has been rumored that Chad Morris wants to return to the state of Texas and his name came up for the offensive coordinator job at Texas when Charlie Strong took over. He would be a home run hire for SMU.