The Dallas-to-Austin movement is alive and well at the moment, and that’s especially ideal news for a Texas Longhorns program that’s struggled to recruit the DFW Metroplex over the years, often losing head-to-head battles with their Red River rivals, the Oklahoma Sooners.
Unsurprisingly, the Sooners’ success recruiting the state of Texas, and the DFW area, in particular, is largely why Oklahoma has, far-and-away, solidified itself as the alpha in the Big 12, cruising to back-to-back-to-back-to-back conference titles, as Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley detailed on Monday at Big 12 Media Days.
“It’s a critical area for us and it has been historically and even maybe more so in the last few years.