Texas players make big gains in offseason conditioning program

After several false starts, it appears that the Texas Longhorns finally have a real strength and conditioning program thanks to Yancy McKnight.

Where Jeff Madden and Bennie Wylie and Pat Moorer all largely failed to maximize the strength and athleticism of Texas players for about two decades, the benefits of having McKnight are now showing up in the testing numbers.

In fact, head coach Tom Herman spent a large portion of his opening statement during Monday’s press conference heralding the gains made in the nearly two months since the Texas Bowl victory over Missouri.

Last summer, Herman said that his team had shed 500 pounds of body fat, added 380 pounds of lean muscle mass, and increased its…