Recruiting Pipelines Then & Now (Mack, Strong, Herman, Sark)

Intending to get this published on Tuesday while driving across the country from North Carolina to Texas was a major flaw in my judgment. I had 90 percent of this complete but as I'm typing this from the Hampton Inn in Tyler, TX - We've made it to the motherland and I'm ready to head out for a couple of breakfast tacos - so please, drop a recommendation in the Austin area.

If you want to not only join the SEC but also win the SEC, you must hire someone who has succeeded in the SEC. Steve Sarkisian arrived in Austin in January of 2021. Over the previous 11 seasons with Mack Brown, Charlie Strong, and Tom Herman as head coaches, the University finished with 10+ wins just once, in 2018 under Tom Herman.

During those 11 years after the 2009 Championship Game loss, the Longhorns signed 11 5-star recruits and just five top-5 classes, three of which came in the proceeding years of the Championship appearance and each of the three under Mack Brown’s tutelage ...

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