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Texas can shrug off haters now that Longhorns have Arch Manning, their pied piper | Opinion

The players are coming to Austin, Texas, thanks to a 17-year-old pied piper by the name of Arch Manning.

Since the latest member of America’s first family of quarterbacks announced his plans to sign as part of Texas' 2023 recruiting class, the dominos have all been falling in the Longhorns’ favor.

Future Texas teams will be loaded, and we will find out in a hurry if coach Steve Sarkisian can apply some winning gloss to a talented locker room. Gone are the days of saying Texas doesn’t have enough in its arsenal to compete with the big boys in the Big 12 and, yes, the SEC.