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Texas' QB race still front and center with starter decision looming over first scrimmage

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Texas head football coach Charlie Strong responds to questions from reporter assembled during the Big 12 Conference Football Media Days at the Omni Dallas Hotel, July 19, 2016. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)

AUSTIN - Just like everyone else, Charlie Strong had a real good hunch about the first question at the opening press conference of preseason camp.

If this is Texas football and it’s any year after 2009, it must be about one position.

“Starting quarterback,” the Longhorns coach said, chuckling. “Why is that always the question?”

Yes, that was apparently a rhetorical response.