Mack Brown coached his second to last football game on a bitterly cold, windy night in Waco, Texas, in early December 2013. His Texas team was soundly beaten by the Baylor Bears, ending its season 8-4 and leading to Brown's resignation one week later after winning 206 games over 16 years at Texas and collecting the 2005 national title. But he knew that was no way to go out, and certainly not by losing a meaningless bowl game to Oregon three weeks later.
"You miss the players, you miss the coaches and the camaraderie, you missing having an impact on young men's lives," says Brown, who then spent five years doing studio and game analysis for ABC and ESPN.