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Texas has had 30 coaches since 1894. Only 3 have lost their first game: McWilliams, Mackovic and Herman #hookem
See! See! Mackovic. "Damn Herman's just like Mackovic."
John Mackovic pulled off one of the GREAT coaching jobs in history, I think just the year before Route 66. They were playing Nebraska in their conference championship game (I forget what that conference was called then.) Nebraska: Tom Osborne. Go. Big. Red. (Have you ever heard that? It sounds so dull. Said in the same low monotone, Nebraska people are the finest people going, but that "Go Big Red" chant makes them sound lobotomized.) Anyway, Nebraska, Osborne, corn-fed, farm-raised 350 lb linemen. Texas was a big underdog in that game. With the game on the line, Texas leading, and three-something minutes left, fucking Mackovic called a fake punt from like his own 30 yard line. Fucking thing worked. Football watchers are forever going, "Watch the fake! Watch the fake!" NOBODY was saying "Watch the fake" on that play. The entire stadium, every couch tater in 'Murica was shocked out of his seat, most of all Tom Osborne. Damn play went for something like 50 yards. I have never seen a ballsier call than that. DIDN'T SAVE MACKOVIC! Oh Texas, lolol.
