Mack Brown and others have cleverly adopted Nick Saban's "trapdoor" philosophy

[The30YardSlant]

I have to admit, as harsh as it seems history has shown that teams who abuse the "trapdoor" system in college football tend to generate success over time. Saban has it down to an art form, kicking underperforming athletes to the curb and at the same time convincing the public it was all in the student's best interest so as to not hurt recruiting. Now, it seems that Mack has adopted a similar plan...

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/49045/transfers-might-be-good-thing-for-texas

Darius White transferred. He is one of 17 Texas players who have either elected to transfer or left the program for various reasons in the last 11 months.

Complete with press releases that in no way seem scripted or contrived about how much the athletes love Texas but wanted a fresh start.

It seems to be the new flavor of the month strategy. Les Miles started doing it a few years back. Sumlin at A&M has already "allowed" a decent number of the old staff's recruits to "leave" the program, as has Meyer at OSU and Muschamp at Florida. Not sure how I feel about it ethically, but it does work.

 

[rkell87]

I have to admit, as harsh as it seems history has shown that teams who abuse the "trapdoor" system in college football tend to generate success over time. Saban has it down to an art form, kicking underperforming athletes to the curb and at the same time convincing the public it was all in the student's best interest so as to not hurt recruiting. Now, it seems that Mack has adopted a similar plan...

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/49045/transfers-might-be-good-thing-for-texas



Complete with press releases that in no way seem scripted or contrived about how much the athletes love Texas but wanted a fresh start.

It seems to be the new flavor of the month strategy. Les Miles started doing it a few years back. Sumlin at A&M has already "allowed" a decent number of the old staff's recruits to "leave" the program, as has Meyer at OSU and Muschamp at Florida. Not sure how I feel about it ethically, but it does work.

all those guys have been passed on the depth chart by younger guys, when you commit to texas, texas commits to you and mack has never made a player leave for under preforming only for rules violations such as arrests(though the better you are the less likely you are to be dismissed for arrests. see sergio kindle and about 6 guys from the 05 team)

the lack of effective scouting from the previous staff along with the refusal of these players to adjust to the new regime has opened the door for them to be surpassed so texas is seeing a lot more attrition than it is used to

I do agree it is an effective strategy but i do not believe that is what is going on here, if you see this amount of guys leaving over the next two or three years then maybe but right now i believe this is just the guys that don't want to put in the work or have been passed by younger guys trying to go somewhere else for more PT