Why did the Texas Longhorns sign the No. 17 recruiting class in the country in the midst of terminating head coach Tom Herman?
It wasn’t just the losses to rival Oklahoma, the 32-18 record overall, and the 22-13 record in Big 12 play.
To put it bluntly, recruits lost trust in Herman’s vision of the program, a belief confirmed not only by the results, but also an anonymous survey by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football in which 21 of the 32 recruits who responded called Texas the most overrated program in the state.
No other in-state program received more than two votes.