A conversation with Mack Brown, former head football coach at the University of Texas, moderated by professor of practice and Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith. Register here.
Mack Brown was inducted into the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2018. He is the 22nd Longhorn all-time to be selected, joining Dana X. Bible and Darrell Royal as Texas head coaches to have been inducted.
Brown was the head coach of the Texas Longhorns for 16 seasons. With a mark at Texas of 158-48 (.767), the 2008 Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year and the 2009 Big 12 Coach of the Year elevated the Longhorns program to new heights.
Brown currently serves as a College Football studio analyst for ESPN after serving as both a studio analyst and color analyst on ESPN for several years prior.
The 2005 Paul W. "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year award winner, and coach of the 2005 BCS National Champions, he is one of a handful of coaches in the history of college football to lead two separate programs to a Top Five national finish.
A member of the Longhorn Hall of Honor, Brown's 244 career victories rank 10th on the NCAA all-time list, and he was one of just four active coaches to reach the 200-victory plateau at the end of the 2013 season. He was also one of only two coaches nationally to direct his teams to 21 bowls in his last 22 seasons and and the only one to have 23 winning seasons in his last 24 years, while his 158 wins at Texas were the fourth-most in the nation from 1998-2013, and his 225 wins overall from 1990 to 2013 were the most nationally.
In addition to the Longhorn Hall of Honor and College Football Hall of Fame, Brown is also a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, Rose Bowl Hall of Fame and the Holiday Bowl Hall of Fame.
Those streaks are a reflection of the continuing success Brown brought to a program that managed at least 10 wins just three times in the 16 years prior to his arrival in 1998, but did so nine times in his 16 seasons, including a streak of nine consecutive that is the second-longest in NCAA history. Brown also led the Longhorns to six seasons of at least 11 wins.