I’ll take a stab at this for debate purposes lol
For me… Mack is actually close to the top 10. I like him more than Brian Kelly. His time at the end of Texas is still on people mind and he now seems more like Bill Synder in his last years. Jimbo is still recruiting at higher clip and his staff hires have been on point, especially with defense coordinator. Covid year doesn’t count here because we were average (tell a bama fan that championship doesn’t count) but TAMU had a excellent year. He also had Kelly Mond playing good football after people were calling him a bust. Right or wrong, he gets the benefit of getting his *** kicked in the SEC West instead of the ACC.
But in 2022, Jimbo is going into the season with a team with a couple of Top 5 classes and reputations of being a QB guru. Mack is going in as a better version of Herm Edwards.