As for whether former UT coach Mack Brown should become the new AD, McCombs said, “Oh, I don’t think that makes any sense at all. Mack has already been at the top of the mountain. I wish, and he wishes, he had gone out on a little higher note.
“I’d be surprised if he had any interest in that. He’s too smart for that.”
McCombs said he doesn’t know interim AD Mike Perrin all that well. “I know him as just a very solid, likable, dependable smart person,” McCombs said.
McCombs also scoffed at the notion current UT coach Charlie Strong is in trouble now that Patterson is gone. “I don’t think that he’s in any trouble at all,” McCombs said. “There was a lot of angst related to Steve, and I don’t know if it was realistic or not, but it was there.”
McCombs said he believes that Patterson’s other major hire, men’s basketball coach Shaka Smart, will “get out of the gate quickly” later this fall.
As for the current state of the football program, McCombs’ voice started rising when he brought up new starting quarterback Jerrod Heard.
“God, he is an exciting guy to watch, and that’s what you have to have,” McCombs said.
UT is young af right now... could be a shootout, could be a blow out by Cal
