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Charlie Strong has a Miami Freudian slip

By John Buhler

Sep 19, 2015; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong reacts against the California Golden Bears during the fourth quarter at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Cal beat Texas 45-44. Mandatory Credit: Brendan Maloney-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 19, 2015; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong reacts against the California Golden Bears during the fourth quarter at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Cal beat Texas 45-44. Mandatory Credit: Brendan Maloney-USA TODAY Sports /
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Charlie Strong had the Miami Hurricanes on his mind in his post game press conference, after his Texas Longhorns were promptly shut out by the Iowa State Cyclones, 24-0 Saturday.

The Charlie Strong Era of the Texas Longhorns has been anything but strong in Austin. Texas is an abysmal 3-5 (2-3 in the Big 12) with four conference games remaining. UT may miss a bowl game if they don’t beat West Virginia a reality that came to form after getting shut out in Ames to Iowa State, 24-0 Saturday.

One has to wonder where Strong’s head is at, as the once proud Longhorns program has five bad/embarrassing losses on the year. In his most recent presser after the Iowa State defeat, he had a Freudian slip about the Miami Hurricanes.

Texas may have lost five times this year (at Notre Dame, California, Oklahoma State, at TCU, at Iowa State). Perhaps Strong has had enough of the pressure associated with the Texas job. No program has more resources than UT, which should stand as the acme of college football in the prospect-rich state.

Since losing the 2009 BCS National Championship, the Texas Longhorns have fallen on hard times. The once bad news Baylor Bears and the former Mountain West member TCU Horned Frogs are the toast of Texas and the Big 12. Losing to Iowa State might mean that Texas is the ninth best team in the Big 12, ahead of only the winless Kansas Jayhawks.

While Charlie Strong did beat arch rival Oklahoma in the Red River Classic on October 10th, maybe the Longhorns want a mulligan on their first hire after the proud Mack Brown Era in Austin? Perhaps Strong would want to take over another downtrodden program because he isn’t cutting it in Texas.

Since he can’t go back to Louisville, Strong might as well play in the same conference as his former employer. After the ineptitude his teams have shown in Texas, would Miami athletic director Blake James even want to pursue Strong as a potential head coaching candidate? Things are possibly worse in Austin than in Coral Gables at the moment. The ‘Canes did upset divisional foe Duke yesterday.

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