Mack Brown crushes Texas A&M for women's clinic fiasco

Published Nov. 15, 2016 3:49 p.m. ET

Aaron Torres

Kevin Sumlin’s Texas A&M Aggies were in the news last weekend, and it was for all the wrong reasons. The school hosted a "women’s clinic" for female football fans on Friday, which quickly devolved into a clinic filled with uncomfortable and sexist connotations, which resulted in two assistants being suspended from the team.

Of course, after the news broke, you just knew A&M’s biggest rivals would use this as an opportunity to mock the Aggies, and that’s exactly what happened. The surprise, though, is where it came from: Mack Brown.

Yes, Brown is a former Texas coach, but he’s also normally mild-mannered. But he brought the hammer Monday when he was asked about the fiasco on the Paul Finebaum radio show.

"Well first, Paul, I've never lost a women's clinic," Brown said. "We had 30 years of them, and there's supposed to be a positive upbeat — more like a pep rally to talk football and get ready for the season."

Brown then brought up a very important point: In a world where domestic violence issues are at the forefront in sports, why do anything so derogatory towards women?

"It's just inappropriate," Brown said. "Coaches across the country — and men — are trying to teach young players to be appropriate with their behavior towards women. This is an awful message."

Finally, Brown wrapped up by explaining that a two-week suspension handed down by Sumlin wasn’t enough. While not directly saying that he would have handled things differently, Brown laid out a blueprint of what might be a more effective punishment.

"These guys got suspended, but to me, they need counseling," Brown said. "They need to get some help to make sure they do a better job in their personal lives, so the players will learn better from them how to treat ladies."

Brown’s opinions aren’t just well-founded -- they're basically 100 percent correct. Still, it is surprising to hear Brown come out with a straight, blunt stance on the issue.

Simply put, when you get Brown this fired up, you know you did something really, really bad. And that’s definitely the case at A&M right now.