The season ended gracefully on a victorious whimper.
But behind closed doors, discontent grew among the involved stakeholders. Disagreement, lack of vision, indecisiveness, all leaking to prominent media members — who were openly questioning both the approach and appropriateness of the football program’s direction while voyeuristic college football fans across the nation laughed.
Calls for firing coaches and complete program overhauls paired with rumors of hands-on billionaires writing blank checks with stringent stipulations littered social media timelines with conflicting information leaking every few hours.
It was, for all intents and purposes, what everyone expected from Texas after an embarrassing football season.