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 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 09:32, 24 February 2010.

List of Texas Longhorns head football coaches

 * Nominator(s): —NMajdan &bull;talk 15:28, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Continuing in my Big 12 coaches phase, I am nominating the Texas list for FL. Hopefully, I have made all the changes to this list that have been requested in my other lists.—NMajdan &bull;talk 15:28, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments from KV5


 * Superscript daggers in the table.
 * Well, shoot. I know better than that. Fixed.—NMajdan &bull;talk
 * No navboxes? Absolutely not a necessity, but I figured I would ask.
 * Inserted the Texas coaches navbox and changed the main link to point to this list instead of Texas Longhorns football.—NMajdan &bull;talk

Otherwise well done. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 15:36, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Support – I see no glaring issues. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:05, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment
 * How about adding a column for division champions? I added it to the Texas Tech list even though there's only one entry for the column but UT can fill it out a bit more: Mackovic (1) and Brown (5).
 * I don't think anyone cares about division championships. No trophies are given. Schools don't claim division championships. Basically, in the Big 12, a division champ is the team that lost the conference championship. I just don't think its worth including. Besides, I think that falls under WP:RECENTISM since divisions didn't exist until 1996. So a whole new column that would only be used for two coaches. I am against this idea.—NMajdan &bull;talk 16:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The division champ isn't always the loser of the championship game. There are plenty of examples in the Big 12 where the division has had a tie: in 1999 and 2000, Kansas State and Nebraska were both north division co-champions, in 2001 with Colorado and Nebraska, in 2007 with Kansas and Mizzou, and in 2008 in the north with Mizzou and Nebraska plus, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech in the south. So there's multiple teams that have shared the division title but not advanced to the conference championship game. Divisions titles are widely used and recognized on their Template:CFB Yearly Record Entry, teams pages (Texas, Colorado, Texas Tech) and coaches articles. Also, the Big 12 recognizes the winners of the divisions according to their record book (here: http://www.big12sports.com/fls/10410/pdfs/football/record_book.pdf) NThomas (talk) 01:37, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I just don't think it is worth mentioning in what is already a tightly packed horizontal table (as seen on a 1024x768 monitor).—NMajdan &bull;talk 17:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Everything else looks great! NThomas (talk) 04:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * More comments
 * How about adding a sentence concerning Will Muschamp as he has been named "Head coach in waiting"? NThomas (talk) 03:38, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Again, I just don't think that is necessary. This is a list of head coaches, not future head coaches. If we knew that Brown was going to retire at the end of the next season, and so we had a definite start date for Muschamp as head coach, then I could see it. But anything could still happen. Sounds like Tennessee went after Muschamp this past month and while he turned it down, it showed that he is going to remain a target by other schools and that it is not guaranteed he will stay at Texas.—NMajdan &bull;talk 13:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Support – NThomas (talk) 16:51, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Support – Meets FL standards.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 22:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


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