Four days after Texas Longhorns athletics director Chris Del Conte released his infamous statement reiterating that Tom Herman was still the head football coach in Austin, Herman met with the media to discuss a 2021 signing class that ranked as the worst non-transition class for the Longhorns in the modern era of recruiting.
During that Zoom call with reporters, Herman emphasized that he and his staff kept the overall size of the class relatively small in order to add graduate or other transfers with the still-looming possibility of a one-time blanket transfer waiver.
So with the first Texas transition class under new head coach Steve Sarkisian, one might say that the cake was already baked and that just needed a little icing.