2013 Texas Longhorns football recruiting: Grading the incoming class

The Texas Longhorns, under longtime head coach Mack Brown, have improved in each of the last three seasons. However, and despite highly-touted recruiting classes, the Horns have failed to crack the 10-win plateau. Once again, there are extremely high expectations for this program, especially with 19 starters returning from an Alamo Bowl-winning 2012 unit.

Thus, with so many young guys returning, Brown and his staff went about their recruiting a bit differently than in years past. Whether or not they were successful, however, is up to you.

The incoming 2013 class consists of 15 high school stars. While there are no five-star guys in this year’s class, there are 11 four-stars and a few guys that are expected to make an immediate impact — especially in the trenches.

Of the team’s five ESPN150 recruits, three of them are on the offensive line, meaning Brown and Co. are gearing up to run a ground-and-pound game to compete against the SEC in the postseason.

So, what do you think? Are you impressed by Brown’s haul, or do you think he and his staff could have even done better?

It’s time to have your voice heard, Horns Nation, and give your program’s recruiting class a grade

Wrapping up 2013 National Signing Day — Final recruiting rankings.

What do you think Gamedayrs?

BozoTexeno

I have been a Texas fan since 1960 when I was 10 years old. I was extremely impressed with Mack Brown until 3 years ago. Mack had the best overall program in College Football for a decade. He built that program by becoming what he was afraid of. He couldn’t beat Oklahoma because of their Zone Read offence, so he developed the Zone Read and took it back overcame his Oklahoma problem. He couldn’t stop Texas Tech’s spread offense so he developed it at Texas, combined it with the zone read, and lost his fear of Tech because he knew he could score with them. Then came the national championship game with Bama. Mack had the better team, but lost because his Quarterback, Colt McCoy left the game after 5 plays with an injury. Even with a true freshman that had absolutely no experience, Texas was only a touchdown behind with 3 minutes left, before the freshman was overwhelmed because of poor field position. Mack fell apart, panicked, decided Alabama was omnipotent, tried to run the ball the next year, and screwed up the most prolific offence in college football. Then he proceeded to try and become what he feared once again. Sorry Mack. A running offense will never win the Big 12 championship. The offenses in the conference are too high octane. You can’t beat them week after week. Texas A&M proved that to beat Alabama, you do what Texas used to do. You play strong defense, wide open offense, and go in with a good, 2 dimensional quarterback (plus you keep on hand a good running back) which Texas forgot to do in their last couple of year of greatness. All Saban did at Alabama was bring Big 10 football to the SEC and recruit better athletes than the Big 10 was recruiting. Texas was beating Ohio State at their peak, Southern Cal at their peak, and building a dynasty. Go back Mack, before you destroy a great football team.

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