Paul Wadlington

They got it right.That doesn't mean the committee's composition is ideal, competent, or even that the idea of a committee - any committee ever, God help us - is ever a good one, but they got it right.

One of the defining characteristics of the Big 12 conference of late is that the best team tends to follow a clear development cycle - stink, build, peak, retrench. After their apogee, rather than reload the following year, despite mainstream media front running predictions that they'll stay on the mountain peak, they see immediate decline and retrenchment.

A few quick thoughts on the current excitement surrounding Nick Saban, Steve Sarkisian, and the Coaching Carousel.

https://www.on3/teams/texas-longhorns/news/on-a-barcalounger-watching-musical-chairs/

While Texas is putting together a nice portal class - with likely more to come - Texas also lost 13 athletes from the 2023 football team. More will be added to that list as well. What do their destinations and opportunities tell us? What did the transfer markets say?Let's break it down...

I want to expand one of the themes I touched on in my last piece. From a regional and national recruiting perspective, few programs can match the enviable position that Texas currently enjoys.

The recent display of athletic dominance by Texas Longhorn players at the NFL Combine is useful for the Texas program on a number of levels.

Since the 1957 hire of Darrell Royal, the Longhorns have had eight head football coaches. Each succeeded or failed for different reasons, but each triumph, failure, or mixed record -- while not identical -- offers lessons that, when viewed from 10,000 feet and across nearly seven decades of play, are potentially instructive.

The Hypesman occasionally goes to the best player in college football and betting on it is often a fool's errand, but a 2024 post-Spring odds release suggests that there is no clear frontrunner and Vegas is still feeling its way through the contenders.

One of the toughest blows to illicit handlers, crooked family members and the street agents of old is that NIL payments go directly to the athlete. Hard to middle man that, particularly when athletes talk and information flows freely. The transparent nature of the current system is quite disruptive to bad actors.