Five Burning Questions for the Texas Longhorns this offseason

With the offseason one bowl game away from beginning, the staff answers the five burning questions for the Texas Longhorns.

There’s no shortage of questions surrounding the Texas football program this offseason.

What changes need to be made to the coaching staff? Who will be the starting quarterback in 2021? Which players should return for another season rather than declare for the NFL draft?

The attention and speculation continue to surround Tom Herman’s future in Austin. It’s clear Texas continues to experience familiar failures under Herman and suffers heartbreaking losses to unranked teams each season. However, on Saturday afternoon Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte released a statement to remove all doubt.

Although Herman finished with an overall 6-3 record this season, the outcome could have been much worse. Texas needed a miracle to squeak by Texas Tech early on in the season and narrowly defeated Oklahoma State and West Virginia. The only confident wins came against UTEP, Baylor and Kansas State.

The standards and expectations at Texas are to consistently compete for championships. Now that the Longhorns will not be playing for the Big 12 title, Longhorns Wire staff took a look at five burning questions surrounding the Texas football program this offseason.