SportsDay Big 12 insider Chuck Carlton writes columns, features, live chat responses and more on SportsDayDFW.com. Here are the best of his Longhorn reflections since the football offseason began:
The recruiting craze
On the Longhorns approach to National Signing Day: Tom Herman offered no apologies for the lowest rated Texas football signing class this century.
Anyone expecting contrition from the Longhorns' new coach was disappointed Wednesday as the dust settled on national signing day. That's simply not Herman's style or the tone he wanted to set in Year 1.
"I'm excited," Herman said, "because I'm proud of the calculated nature we went about attacking this class.