Following the disgraceful Texas Bowl showing and a regular season full of offensive futility, Charlie Strong did the right thing in the off-season. Since then, he has said the right things and recruited the right way. The hopes of the Longhorn faithful have been raised, at least somewhat, by the promised return to a more open, spread offensive philosophy. On paper, it’s the absolute right move.
The spring game supported this. Although neither Tyrone Swoopes nor Jerrod Heard duplicated the insane performance Garrett Gilbert put on the 2010 spring game, both showed promise running the new O. Heard’s performance in particular gave fans hope that the horrors of 2014 would not be repeated.