Top 10 college football programs who put the most pressure on head coaches

Nov 1, 2014; Lubbock, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong on the sidelines during the game with the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports

6. Texas Longhorns

Charlie Strong will be going into his second year as head coach in 2015. Hopes are high for him; Texas’s football team showed flashes of brilliance last season that hasn’t surfaced in many a recent year. However, Strong shouldn’t be getting too comfortable anytime soon even though his name blends so well with the Texas mascot (gooo Stronghorns!). He is, after all, taking the head coaching job directly after the second winningest coach in Texas history, Mack Brown.

Mack Brown started at head coach in 1998, and gave Longhorn fans the following list of fantastic things: Vince Young, an undefeated season in 2005 (national championship included), Colt McCoy, another national championship appearance, and two Big 12 championships.

Brown’s last two years leading the program ended with 9-4 and 8-5 seasons, and while some schools would be congratulating each other for achieving a record like that, a sense of vague disappointment hung around the Texas program instead. Longhorn fans just expected more, expected better.

Are those same fans now regretting that they agreed with Brown’s decision to retire? Charlie Strong had better start improving his numbers if he doesn’t want the answer to that question to be yes.

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