5 reasons Texas Longhorns need to fire Charlie Strong

The Texas Longhorns have fallen to 3-4 in 2016. Here are five reasons it is time for the Longhorns to part ways with head coach Charlie Strong.

The Texas Longhorns are one of the three worst teams in the Big 12 under third-year head coach Charlie Strong. When your football team is in the realm of the Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas Jayhawks, it might be time to find a new head coach.

Strong has been given every opportunity to succeed in Austin these last few years. However, it has become clear that he isn’t equipped to lead the Longhorns to championship-caliber football. That is the only type of football that is accepted at a blue-blood like Texas.

Here are five reasons Texas needs to admit that the Strong experiment has failed and move on.

5. Doomed from a rocky start

This can’t be understated, but when Strong first became the head coach of the Longhorns, he didn’t do a great job of appeasing the many boosters of the football program. At his introductory press conference, Strong talked about changing the football program rather than rebuilding it. Wrong move.

See the problem with changing a blue-blood as a head coach is that it is extremely alienating. Of course, everybody involved with Texas football wants to see the Longhorns back to good, but saying that he wants to change instead of rebuild came across as a slap in the face to Texas loyalists.

Instead of saying, “we’re in this together”, Strong put a ton of pressure on himself and his new staff to try and change a blue-blood. From that initial press conference, some boosters inside of Texas have wanted to see Strong fail.

Now that he is essentially failing, it is more of a “I told you so” sort of hire that Texas made in hiring Strong as Mack Brown’s replacement. In short, Strong got off on the wrong foot with the Texas boosters and his time in Austin is running out.