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During the Vince Young and Mack Brown era, Texas football was at it’s highest peak. Longhorns were back on the map as one of the premier programs. In 2004, Vince Young and the Longhorns found themselves playing the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl after a 10-1 regular season. The win over the Wolverines gave this team plenty of confidence to return to Pasadena the following year for the BCS National Championship.
Following the Rose Bowl win over Michigan, Young said he needed to remind the team they weren’t done. He sat down with Aaron Murray as part of the Campus Lore Championship Moments series presented by Amway and XS Energy Drink to discuss his time in Austin. Murray asked Young if he felt they had something special brewing.
Yeah we did. At first we had some guys who were smelling themselves a little bit. So when we came back off that win, the guys came back a little happy go lucky. [They] forgot about Coach Brown’s rules and regulations and I saw that in my team so I asked coach if I could speak to the team for a second.
I was pointing out his team rules like in his team meeting he always wanted you to sit up straight. He didn’t want you to wear a hat, he didn’t want you to wear earrings. There were a lot of things that he didn’t like in his meeting room and a lot of guys came in doing that. And I had to say something because I felt like that was going to tear us down. Guys felt like because we won that first Rose Bowl against Michigan we were done.
I was like nah dude we’re not finish yet
The rules were obviously important to Mack Brown and Vince Young. That two season run the Longhorns were one of the best in the country with a combined 24-1 record. That is still a really high bar that the current team is still chasing 15 years later.