coolhorn
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He just bagged a recruiting class that ranks anywhere from 7th to 12th best in the country. This is a foundational recruiting class, with players at all positions except kicker that will provide either immediate help, or at worst, help after a redshirt year. He showed he could bring in difference makers on offense, as well as defense. Yeah, I'm talking Charlie Strong.
I was amazed, and amused, to see some posters on a couple of sites dusting off the tired saw that "Charlie can't recruit." Their line of reasoning seems to go that he didn't land Murry, Mack, or Soso, so...he just doesn't cut it, and neither does his staff. My first reaction? Really? I mean...Really???
UT finished 6-7 on the past season, with blowout losses to TCU and Arkey. Couple that with all of the negative recruiting tied into an ineffective quarterback and a revolving door of players getting themselves dismissed, not to mention a team of remaining players going through culture shock after years of the much more easy going Mack Brown time on the forty, and Charlie pulled in a top ten class? I wonder what kind of class he'll bring in when UT's on the right side of the won-loss record?
I get it that Strong wasn't the first choice of some to replace Mack Brown. He wasn't my first choice either...but color me impressed with how Strong's dealt with more bad hands than any coach in recent memory, and come through it with enough respect to attract a top ten recruiting class anyway. Most of the players who've signed with UT had plenty of other options, programs that are winning right now, but Strong sold them on a resurgent UT, and on himself...and they bought what he's selling. I get that various posters have various agendas against Strong, most of which I don't care to get into here, some because they're ugly and just flat wrong.
I believe in results, not promises. Charlie Strong has delivered results today, not promises, and as far as I'm concerned, the UT football program is in damned fine hands.
I was amazed, and amused, to see some posters on a couple of sites dusting off the tired saw that "Charlie can't recruit." Their line of reasoning seems to go that he didn't land Murry, Mack, or Soso, so...he just doesn't cut it, and neither does his staff. My first reaction? Really? I mean...Really???
UT finished 6-7 on the past season, with blowout losses to TCU and Arkey. Couple that with all of the negative recruiting tied into an ineffective quarterback and a revolving door of players getting themselves dismissed, not to mention a team of remaining players going through culture shock after years of the much more easy going Mack Brown time on the forty, and Charlie pulled in a top ten class? I wonder what kind of class he'll bring in when UT's on the right side of the won-loss record?
I get it that Strong wasn't the first choice of some to replace Mack Brown. He wasn't my first choice either...but color me impressed with how Strong's dealt with more bad hands than any coach in recent memory, and come through it with enough respect to attract a top ten recruiting class anyway. Most of the players who've signed with UT had plenty of other options, programs that are winning right now, but Strong sold them on a resurgent UT, and on himself...and they bought what he's selling. I get that various posters have various agendas against Strong, most of which I don't care to get into here, some because they're ugly and just flat wrong.
I believe in results, not promises. Charlie Strong has delivered results today, not promises, and as far as I'm concerned, the UT football program is in damned fine hands.
