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Texas Football Coach Charlie Strong: ‘We are going to steamroll everyone’

By Patrick Schmidt

Nov 8, 2014; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong prior to kickoff against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brendan Maloney-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 8, 2014; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong prior to kickoff against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brendan Maloney-USA TODAY Sports /
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Charlie Strong is confident his Texas football team will be able to steamroll everyone.

The Texas Longhorns have yet to have a winning season in the two years Charlie Strong has been the head football coach but that’s not dampening his enthusiasm for the future of the program.

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After a strong finish on the recruiting trail for his 2016 class, Strong is optimistic he has the Longhorns on the right path toward a return to relevance and competing for Big 12 titles.

Strong was speaking with faculty earlier this week when he gave them a rousing motivational speech and the promise that better days are ahead. He also gave some bulletin board material to the Oklahoma Sooners and the rest of the Big 12 in the process.

“What’s going to happen when we flip this thing? Where are we going to be then?” Strong said, via the  Austin American-Statesman. “You think about what we’re doing right now, what’s going to happen when we really get it turned? They might as well move out of the way, because we are going to steamroll everyone. That’s going to happen.”

I wouldn’t expect Strong to say anything less while speaking to faculty. You don’t expect him to say they’re going to be stuck in 5-6 win territory, do you?

In any event, the comments got a reaction from Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Kliff Kingsbury when he said,

“He said that? It’s not April Fool’s yet, is it? No? He just cut it loose?” Kingsbury said, via Coachingsearch. “I did not see that, but I would not make those statements. Hey, to each his own.”

Kingsbury has found himself in the middle of quotes from confident coaches before, including a dust-up with Bret Bielema and the Arkansas Razorbacks after they beat them last year when Kingsbury referred to the game as “kicking their ass.”

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Does anyone think Strong and Texas will steamroll everyone this year? No.

But after two losing seasons that saw him remake the roster he inherited from Mack Brown, Texas is headed in the right direction, but Texas won’t be steamrolling anyone until they find a quarterback. And that’s something they haven’t had since Colt McCoy left Austin.

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