{"id":105,"date":"2012-10-15T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:21:46","slug":"mack-brown-not-retiring-vows-im-going-to-get-this-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2012\/10\/15\/mack-brown-not-retiring-vows-im-going-to-get-this-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mack Brown not retiring vows &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get this fixed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mackbrown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"mackbrown\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mackbrown-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mackbrown-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/mackbrown.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Oklahoma pounded Texas 63-21 on Saturday. Immediately the calls for Mack Brown to step aside grew louder. Brown though says he is not leaving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m way too competitive and have way too much pride to leave something bad,&#8221; the Texas coach told ESPN. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get this fixed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown had much the same outlook following a 5-7 season in 2010 but after two consecutive losses this season the calls for Brown to retire have grown again.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns rebounded in 2011 and Brown was given a contract extension until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be some people that say he thought about retiring before and he may quit,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I told them that if somebody is telling you to quit, don&#8217;t. In your life if you start quitting, then you&#8217;re a quitter. You need to compete. You don&#8217;t sign up for just the good days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have my energy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m moving forward, and we are darn sure going to get this thing fixed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown took responsibility for the blowout loss to Oklahoma. In that game Texas was unable to offer any stop to the Sooners and were run over repeatably.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 15 years Brown has been coaching at Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma pounded Texas 63-21 on Saturday. Immediately the calls for Mack Brown to step aside grew louder. Brown though says he is not leaving. &#8220;I&#8217;m way too competitive and have way too much pride to leave something bad,&#8221; the Texas coach told ESPN. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get this fixed.&#8221; Brown had much the same outlook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[25,17],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-mack-brown","9":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}