At some point between now and Friday evening, it’s expected that Mack Brown will, voluntarily or with a nudge, step down as Texas’ head coach.
Until then, an individual close to the longtime coach continues to publicly claim that the decision to stay or go is solely.
Wednesday, Brown’s attorney Joe Jamail denied reports that surfaced Tuesday, saying that his client and longtime friend “has not tendered his resignation” and has yet to decide whether he’ll continue on as the Longhorns’ coach beyond 2013. More to the point, Jamail claims Brown is not being pushed in either direction by UT officials even as reports and speculation suggest otherwise and, when it comes to his future in Austin, “he’ll decide that on his own.”
“The administration is not asking him to do anything. They’re leaving the decision to him and he’ll make that decision when the time comes, and when he thinks it’s best for the university,” Jameil said according to the Dallas Morning News.
For now, Brown remains very active on the recruiting trail. Even as the coach is at least attempting to plow forward on that front, he acknowledged to at least one recruit that he’s uncertain what the future holds.
“I talked to Mack [Tuesday] night on the phone and basically, he was saying it really wasn’t true, that he wants to be at Texas,” Texas City high schooler and 2014 UT verbal Armanti Foreman told CSNHouston.com. “He was out recruiting and he wouldn’t be out recruiting if he didn’t want to stay. So I mean, he really wants to stay, but he doesn’t really know what’s going to happen.”
As if it weren’t abundantly clear already, the bolded, italicized part tells you all you really need to know about whether the decision to continue on as UT’s head coach truly rests in Brown’s hands.