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10/9/2015, 10:31 AM
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Texas coach Charlie Strong making promises, can he deliver?
By JIM VERTUNO (AP Sports Writer)
October 7, 2015 5:00 PM
AP - Sports
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Shortly after 11 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2014, Texas coach Charlie Strong made a promise: five-loss seasons would ''never happen again'' in the Longhorns program.
Less than a year later and with his team struggling at 1-4, Strong returned to the same podium at his weekly news conference and made yet another pledge: ''This is the week that we get this thing going.''
Texas fans are wondering if any of this is going to come true.
Strong's pledge about five losses seemed reasonable at the time. Texas had won three in a row to become bowl eligible in his first season and seemed to be rising.
Texas is just 1-6 since then. Fans are grumbling, Texas players are taking locker room grievances public and chirping at each other on Twitter and it's an open question around college football on whether Strong could be fired after this season - or sooner.
The Longhorns haven't even played No. 10 Oklahoma yet. That comes come Saturday, when the Sooners (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) are heavily favored to hand Strong that fifth loss just halfway through the season.
''It does look gloomy,'' Strong said Monday. ''It's funny. I guess people think I'm dying. ... I say to people all the time, 'I'm OK.'''
It's hard to find anyone in Austin who is laughing.
(you can read the rest of it here http://sports.yahoo.com/news/texas-coach-charlie-strong-making-promises-deliver-194956637--ncaaf.html )
Texas coach Charlie Strong making promises, can he deliver?
By JIM VERTUNO (AP Sports Writer)
October 7, 2015 5:00 PM
AP - Sports
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Shortly after 11 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2014, Texas coach Charlie Strong made a promise: five-loss seasons would ''never happen again'' in the Longhorns program.
Less than a year later and with his team struggling at 1-4, Strong returned to the same podium at his weekly news conference and made yet another pledge: ''This is the week that we get this thing going.''
Texas fans are wondering if any of this is going to come true.
Strong's pledge about five losses seemed reasonable at the time. Texas had won three in a row to become bowl eligible in his first season and seemed to be rising.
Texas is just 1-6 since then. Fans are grumbling, Texas players are taking locker room grievances public and chirping at each other on Twitter and it's an open question around college football on whether Strong could be fired after this season - or sooner.
The Longhorns haven't even played No. 10 Oklahoma yet. That comes come Saturday, when the Sooners (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) are heavily favored to hand Strong that fifth loss just halfway through the season.
''It does look gloomy,'' Strong said Monday. ''It's funny. I guess people think I'm dying. ... I say to people all the time, 'I'm OK.'''
It's hard to find anyone in Austin who is laughing.
(you can read the rest of it here http://sports.yahoo.com/news/texas-coach-charlie-strong-making-promises-deliver-194956637--ncaaf.html )