The new year officially begins the all-important third season of Charlie Strong's tenure as head coach of the Texas Longhorns.
Strong has to win now. If he didn't know it before, he should now after the mess he went through to hire new offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert.
Now he's got his spread-oriented play-caller and is about to bring his second full recruiting class aboard. He had some built-in excuses in what Mack Brown left behind—namely a lack of depth at quarterback, ineffective upperclassmen and so on.
This was the final class signed by Mack Brown.