5 reasons Texas Longhorns need to fire Charlie Strong
By John Buhler
3. Elite coaches pop in year two, this is year three
When a good head coach takes over a blue-blood program in the Power 5, he should start to see results in year two. It is halfway through year three in Austin for Strong and his Longhorns team may not even make it to a bowl!
In 32 games as the Longhorns head coach, Strong is 14-18 overall and 10-12 in Big 12 play. He has never finished better than 6-7 in any season. The only bowl he made it to was in 2014, losing the Texas Bowl to the Arkansas Razorbacks, 31-7.
Jim Harbaugh turned around the Michigan Wolverines almost immediately in 2015. Urban Meyer led the Ohio State Buckeyes to a 12-0 regular season in 2012, a year that Ohio State was on probation and was supposed to be rebuilding.
It’s painfully obvious that Strong is more likely to be Texas’ version of Derek Dooley. Dooley ran the Tennessee Volunteers into the ground from 2010 to 2012. Strong might be able to lead a Power 5 program, but he can’t cut it in the up-tempo Big 12. Texas needs to go in another direction.