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Podcast: Texas Longhorns under tremendous pressure in 2020

Locked on Longhorns Podcast returns discussing the pressure that Tom Herman and Texas will face in 2020. Plus an Ohio State commit weighs in

The Texas Longhorns are under immense pressure to win in 2020. Patrick and Cami discuss the pressure that Tom Herman and the staff is feeling for the upcoming season. Ohio State commit Tunmise Adeleye weighed in on why he didn’t choose Texas and his reasoning isn’t a new development for the Longhorns. However, it is something that needs to be addressed in order for the team to compete with top tier prospects across the country.

The 2020 season is a huge one for the staff but are their potential pitfalls? The Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklahoma State are three that could give the Longhorns fits in the upcoming season. Oklahoma and LSU are obviously the biggest tests for Texas but any of the three aforementioned teams could cause the Longhorns to stumble if they aren’t focused.

The duo provide an updated on the four targets as far as their crystal predictions on 247Sports. Plus which of the 35 FBS teams are surprising that they haven’t ever beaten Texas.

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Locked on Longhorns Podcast: Another ‘What If’ Monday

The latest “What If” episode of the Longhorns podcast discussing Nick Saban, Shane Buechele and Jamaal Charles.

The Monday edition of the Locked on Longhorns Podcast opens up with the idea of sports coming back soon. NASCAR and golf returned over the weekend, how far off could other sports be? The first what if scenario discussion with the idea of Nick Saban actually taking the job at the University of Texas following the 2012 season. What would the Texas Longhorns look like with Saban at the helm?

What if the Longhorns would have gone with Shane Buechele over Sam Ehlinger? Following the game against Notre Dame in 2016, the Longhorns looked to have found their quarterback of the next several seasons. However, Tom Herman went with Sam Ehlinger during the 2017 campaign and that eventually led Shane to transferring to Southern Methodist.

The 2008 season has been one topic of discussion as of late but what if Jamaal Charles would have remained at Texas for his senior year? How differently could that have impacted the season and the 2008 heartbreaker against Texas Tech.

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Top five Texas football heartbreaks in the last 20 years

While the Longhorns have provided many exhilarating wins over the past 20 years, there’s also been heartbreaking losses.

We can’t erase these games from our memory as much as we’d hope to. Continue reading “Top five Texas football heartbreaks in the last 20 years”

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Texas Football: Top games to rewatch during quarantine

We’ve compiled a list of the best Texas football games to relive during the quarantine.

Do you miss watching Texas sports?

While there are no live sporting events present on our televisions due to the Coronoavirus (COVID-10) outbreak, we’ve compiled a list of the best Texas Longhorns football games to relive during the quarantine.

Other than the 2006 Rose Bowl where quarterback Vince Young scrambled for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter to defeat the University of Southern California, it’s tough to rank the most exciting outcomes when there are many to choose from.

Here are just a few of our favorites.

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Former Head Coach Charlie Strong to Join Alabama’s Staff

Charlie Strong is expected to join Nick Saban and his defensive staff. After getting fired from USF, Strong will be a defensive analyst.

Former Texas head coach Charlie Strong is expected to join Nick Saban and his defensive staff in Tuscaloosa for the 2020 season. Strong had spent the past three seasons as the head coach at South Florida but was fired at the end of the 2019 season.

The position for Strong is expected to be an off the field position, more than likely as a defensive analyst. Saban has done this more many coaches the past few years, including Butch Jones, Steve Sarkisian, and even former Texas offensive coordinator Major Applewhite.

Strong has been in the SEC before, working for Florida as a graduate assistant as early as 1983. He also spent time as their interim head coach in 2004, before serving time as the defensive coordinator under Urban Meyer.

The Alabama defense was one of the worst ever under Saban last season, being the main reason the Crimson Tide lost two games to LSU and Auburn. Strong will have the chance to come in and help improve a defense that is used to being the best in the country.

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REPORT: Charlie Strong joins Nick Saban’s staff

On Tuesday Morning, ESPN’s Chris Low reported that it’s official: Charlie Strong has joined Nick Saban’s staff at the University of Alabama.

On Tuesday Morning, ESPN’s Chris Low reported that it’s official: Charlie Strong has joined Nick Saban’s staff at the University of Alabama as a defensive analyst.

Also according to Low, several other SEC programs were looking to hire Strong to join their staff.

Strong was a head coach at Louisville, Texas and South Florida. But most recently, Strong was an analyst at the University of Florida.

REPORT: Charlie Strong expected to be back in Tuscaloosa this week

Charlie Strong visited Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa last week, and it looks like he’s coming to visit again, maybe as soon as Tuesday. 

Charlie Strong was visited Nick Saban and the coaching staff in Tuscaloosa last week, and it looks like he’s coming to visit again, maybe as soon as Tuesday.

According to Matt Zenitz from AL.com, it is looking like things could continue to move forward with Strong joining the Alabama staff in a support staff capacity, per sources.

Although we don’t know if Strong will be an added support role off the field or whether he will help call plays, Paul Finebaum shared his opinion on Monday on WJOX about why he thinks Strong is joining the staff:

“What I think is interesting about this is that Charlie Strong, the day he arrives on campus whenever he is hired, is the best defensive coach on that staff other than Nick Saban…. I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Nick Saban can continue to talk about – privately, he’s certainly not talking publicly about his current defensive coordinator, but I think I would find a way to get Charlie Strong calling the plays as fast as I could.”

Strong was a head coach at Louisville, Texas and South Florida. But most recently, Strong was an analyst at the University of Florida.

Roll Tide Wire will keep you up to date on the very latest!

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Charlie Strong visits Alabama before the weekend

The former head coach of Louisville, Texas and South Florida, Charlie Strong, was visiting Nick Saban on the Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. Charlie Strong in Tuscaloosa today. pic.twitter.com/lvLZ5zEzmq – Pat Smith (@patsmithradio) February 14, 2020 …

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The former head coach of Louisville, Texas and South Florida, Charlie Strong, was visiting Nick Saban on the Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa.

Strong has been a member of numerous football programs across the country and has filled numerous roles aside from a head coaching position. He has been a defensive coordinator, line backer coach, wide receiver coach, defensive end coach and more in his coaching career.

Most recently, Strong was an analyst at the university of Florida. Alabama head coach Nick Saban is no stranger to bringing in former coaches and utilizing them as assistants.

Saban recently utilized Tennessee’s former head coach, Butch Jones, as an analyst for the Crimson Tide.

Strong may decide to join the Alabama staff, if Saban extends an offer, in order to help recover his image as a big-name head coach in the college football world.

There no reports of Strong officially joining Alabama nor are there any signs pointing to Saban offering him a position as of yet.

However, Roll Tide Wire will keep you updated on the situation and bring you any reports of the Charlie Strong and Alabama coaching staff relationship.

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Charlie Strong raves about Michigan’s newest assistant

The new Wolverines assistant’s former head coach shares why he thinks he’ll be a big success in Ann Arbor.

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Michigan got something of a blood infusion in its defensive coaching ranks on Saturday, with the announcement that it had hired former Mississippi State/Tennessee/Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop and longtime Charlie Strong assistant, USF defensive coordinator Brian Jean-Mary.

The latter was an unexpected hire, but it’s one that Strong calls ‘a great fit,’ according to Detroit Free Press writer Rainer Sabin.

Strong and Jean-Mary go way back, when Strong was the South Carolina defensive coordinator and Jean-Mary was a graduate assistant. When Strong got his first head coaching opportunity at Louisville, Jean-Mary got the call to be his linebackers coach, and the two stuck together all the way through Strong’s head coaching career, at Texas and South Florida.

Now, with Strong unemployed, Jean-Mary is forging a new path, one that’s led him to Ann Arbor. And his former head coach thinks he’ll do just fine in his new digs.

But as a new decade begins, Jean-Mary and Strong have been forced to go their separate ways. It’s the consequence of a 4-8 season that led to the removal of Strong and his staff. On Saturday, Jean-Mary was able to rebound when he was hired by Michigan football to replace Anthony Campanile and oversee the team’s linebackers. His move, which was announced in conjunction with Bob Shoop’s appointment as safeties coach, prompted Strong to say that Jean-Mary’s new role “will be a great fit for him.”

“When you look at a coach, you ask, ‘Can they coach and can they recruit?’” Strong told the Free Press on Saturday. “And he can do both because he knows how to connect with the players. He knows how to have great communication with them.”

When Strong was a defensive coordinator at South Carolina in the early aughts, he was among the first to see Jean-Mary’s potential. Back then, Jean-Mary impressed Strong with the work ethic he displayed as a graduate assistant.

Inquisitive and eager, Jean-Mary showed a willingness to learn.

But most of all he demonstrated a knack for connecting with people.

Strong isn’t the only one with a lot of faith in Jean-Mary’s ability. Fellow USF assistant Shaun Hill also thinks big things of his coaching prowess, telling Sabin just how high he thinks Jean-Mary can fly.

“A future head coach, in my opinion,” King said.

Jean-Mary will be coaching linebackers, per Michigan’s release.

Texas Longhorns of the Decade: Head Coach

In the final look at the football team throughout the decade, Longhorns Wire highlights the coach of the decade.

In our final post for our decade series, we finish with the head coach. During the decade the Texas Longhorns football compiled a record of 70-57, not exactly the standard of excellence that many expected in Austin. They could add one win or loss to that number when they play the Alamo Bowl on December 31st.

During this decade the Longhorns had three head coaches. That is the most head coaches in a decade span since the 1990-1999 seasons in which Texas also had three men leading the football team. Tom Herman currently holds a record of 24-15 and 2-0 in bowl games.

Charlie Strong joined Texas in 2014 but lasted just three seasons in which his teams lost seven games each and every season. Strong was 16-21 during that time and was never fully received in Austin but as they say winning cures all. In his lone bowl appearance, Texas came up on the losing end.

However the man who gets the honor as best head coach of the decade is Mack Brown. Brown took over as head coach for the Longhorns in 1998, replacing John Mackovic who coached Texas for six seasons. Brown stayed in Austin until 2013 enjoying 16 seasons where Texas rose to the top in most cases. He brought the Longhorns their first National Championship since 1981. The Longhorns would play for another title in 2009.

During his four-year run to begin the decade, Brown had a record of 30-21. His bowl record was 2-1. In his final game as the head coach, Brown’s Longhorns lost in the Alamo Bowl. The Longhorns won at least eight games in three of those four years. Even though it was on the back end of his career, Brown still did enough to be coach of the decade.