Should Charlie Strong stayed in Louisville?

[Leakfan12]

I know it's too soon to tell but if Texas loses a few more games, he's done. Of course there's a chance they can win out but unlikely. He had a good thing in Louisville.

 

[DRU2012]

I know it's too soon to tell but if Texas loses a few more games, he's done. Of course there's a chance they can win out but unlikely. He had a good thing in Louisville.

Yeah, I've pondered this myself on occasion since LAST season.
I like Charlie Strong--a former Gator Coach during our glory years, one I've always liked and respected as a former Gator AND just generally, as a man.
Living here in Austin, this early-born pressure to get rid of him has clearly been at least partially a racial thing. Not coincidentally, he cleaned house, axed a real mess of prima donna headcases and over-rated, unproven and lackadaisical recruits that comprised Mack Brown's last coupla classes--and he chose the difficult road, minus the talent in favor of hardworkers and a return to personal responsibility. It took principle and guts, these phony fans talking about "honor" and "respect" but all too quick to start hating with the first coupla inevitable losses to resultingly then much more powerful squads
But by now, I'm not so sure I would still so strongly support his continued tenure as Coach either if I were a Longhorn--it looks as if he just isn't a good fit in this weird world here "deep in the heart", and fact remains, even more than our own Coach Mac at UF, so far he's just not getting the job done when and where it counts--and it's his 3rd year.
All that said, part of the question remains whether Texas really IS "one of the top 2 or 3 jobs in college football" like the pundits always tout it as...This whole morass that Strong finds himself sinking in only highlights why it may well NOT be after all--while meanwhile Louisville has continued its rise into "the next tier" of "mid-majors" that are at least starting to taste the possibility of periodic consideration for a spot among "the big boys". Charlie helped them build to that, to some extent made it possible for those who followed him there and at parallel institutions to contend for that consideration with perfection in any given year.
20-20 hindsight? Yeah, rep-wise it's starting to look pretty bleak--but he's set for life financially, and even after what now seems sooner or later an inglorious pink slip, he'll have his choice for several years as to almost any open job back AT the "Louisville-level", and/or a continued fat check for doing little or nothing for several years to come. Not exactly a "tragic ending" for ol' Charlie--in fact, neither "tragic" NOR an "ending", right?
And some of these "mid-majors" and lesser members of the big conferences now have billionaire benefactors who can and will guarantee larger contracts--and the top Coordinators ar starting to get $2-3 million contracts at the BIG ones. So even if it wasn't "the right move" in some respects from a certain POV, it ain't gonna really cost him that much, if anything, as it turns out...