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There’s a school of thought in the coaching business that once you get on the hot seat, you never really get off. Once fans and boosters have made up their minds that change is needed, they can only be convinced otherwise for little while, until the next calamitous event takes place.
Charlie Strong might well go down as the greatest example of this in the history of college football because, truthfully, he was on the hot seat at Texas from Day 1.
You knew it when Red McCombs, one of biggest of the big-money boosters at Texas, went on the radio in San Antonio shortly after Strong was hired and said: “I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator.