re: Closing your borders

Strong certainly can turn it around but the results so far have been a lot of big talk with terrible results. He closed out '14 like a wet fart losing Alaka and Henderson to A&M and losing Robinson to Bama. The talk was all blaming Mack and how '15 and especially '16 would be SO much better. So far Sumlin is beating up Strong as severely in recruiting as any other time in history, it's astonishing how many kids that openly admit they grew up Texas fans are going to A&M, much less the ones who didn't grow up with a preference.

He is getting slapped around by Baylor and even Tech which simply should never happen. The amount of natural recruiting advantages Texas has over Baylor and Tech are almost too long to list.

Strong is going to have to get it done with 3 Stars which is of course possible in the Big 12 but it is no easy task. He is a solid X's and O's coach and won at Louisville with similar talent even with the Big 12 being less than it was it is no AAC. The Big 12 actually is the 2nd strongest Conference from a pure coaching perspective with established systems in place, 5 of which have won Conf Titles (Stoops at OU, Gundy at OSU, Briles at Baylor, and Snyder at KSU, Patterson at TCU). Then you have Holgerson at WVU and Kingsbury at Tech that are dangerous. I don't know how you could just put Strong as better than many of those coaches at this point and he isn't going to have overwhelming talent against any of them.