Texas needs a solid, proven athletic director. Maybe they ought to give Ohio State's a call.
Texas has just about every advantage and resource you could ask for. It's the biggest fish in a talent-rich state, not just for football, but for basketball too. It has a loaded donor base, their own dang TV channel, a rich history, strong facilities, and absolutely prints money. Texas doesn't really need to go without anything, and shouldn't ever enter a prolonged stretch where they struggle badly.
Of course, that's exactly what happened. The Longhorns haven't just been mediocre on the field, but the administration has been an embarrassment off of it; straining relationships with longtime ticketholders and donors, penny-pinching to the point of charging coaches to eat with students in a cafeteria, and generally becoming the poster child for bumbling egos, greed and excess among all athletic departments.