Diaz will land on his feet because he is a good coach who was in a shit situation. Muschamp left because he saw the writing on the wall, knew Brown wouldn't leave until they Fulmered his ass, and figured it was best to get out before the environment made him look bad.
It has all but become a tradition for Texas to lose one or two games a year to a team that shouldn't be able to come close. This precedes Diaz, and can only point to the team not being prepared. That falls on one guy the head coach.
I'm sure he will find another job, [ddiapos] is coaching for the Dallas Cowboys, anything is possible. You can't routinely suck at your job and expect to keep it.
Once Mack is gone, I expect stories of the current football culture to start rolling out of Austin. That is an uninspired team, and it all falls on the head guy.
Unlike Dooley, Diaz was actually good at his previous two stops (MTSU and MSU) and he has value as a recruiter.
Not a pot shot at Fulmer, but a legit observation... Did anyone feel like déjàvu while watching Brown's post game presser? It was eerily like so many of Fulmer's in 2008. They won't fire Mack Brown, but he's going to "decide" to retire at the end of this season.
He hasn't routinely sucked, though. He had really defenses at MTSU and he got about all you could get out of MSU's talent level while he was there. He's a good defensive coordinator. I would love for him to be coaching DBs here next season.
I wasn't advocating that Diaz was as bad as Dooley just making a point. I just don't completely agree with the notion that he's being made a scapegoat. Mack Brown is ultimately to blame here but Diaz has done nothing of note during is tenure there and deserved to be fired.
When a guy is a hell of a coach everywhere he's been, goes to a place with the reputation of Texas and fails, I put a lot more blame on the culture and the HC than the coordinator. Hell, NFL scouts say that Texas players are, overwhelmingly, lazy, entitled brats that they want no part of. That comes from the HC.
