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Gameplan: National recruiting strategy and the offensive line

Thus far into the 2022 recruiting class, Steve Sarkisian and his staff have made 12 scholarship offers to out of state recruits along the offensive line alone. The program has come quite a long way in 10 years since Mack Brown’s 2011 recruiting class, which ranked fourth in the country but included just one scholarship offer to an out of state offensive line recruit.

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Gameplan: The challenge of featuring Bijan Robinson

It’s obvious to everyone around Texas football what the strategy will be for winning games in 2021, year one of the Steve Sarkisian era. You had only to watch a few of the late season games to have a clear sense of who on this roster a new staff would be looking to emphasize in order to win games.

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Recruiting Notebook: Kerr, Lewis, Umeozulu, Lee

We begin in Central Texas with a versatile safety, head over to the Piney Woods for a linebacker, move along I-20 for one of the state's top offensive linemen, and finish with a Texas signee and how he fits within Steve Sarkisian's offense. Get you some Recruiting Notebook.

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Gameplan: How does the 2021 class fit Sarkisian’s vision?

Texas’ incoming class for 2021 is now more or less complete with the passing of NSD2. Most of the thought and analysis these days occurs around NSD1 when the strong majority of recruits sign. For Texas, the complicating factor is the fact they hired a completely new staff in between NSD1 (to the shock of newspaper readers) and NSD2.

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David Abiara commits to Texas

Steve Sarkisian isn’t done with the 2021 class just yet. Mansfield Legacy defensive end David Abiara has committed to Texas.

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Gameplan: Pete Kwiatkowski’s defense

With the hire of Montana State head coach Jeff Choate as inside linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator, Steve Sarkisian’s staff is now complete. There are some helpful breadcrumbs in some of the title designations and known pay scales to deduce how this staff is going to work together and what the philosophy and approach will be on defense.

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Gameplan: Texas’ RPO-resistant pass defense

The timing of Steve Sarkisian’s defensive hires has been a great puzzle to much of the Longhorn interwebs. First, Mike Stoops was going to come and co-coordinate the defense. Then, it was Will Muschamp until the former Texas DC chose to withdraw from consideration. Next thing Texas fans and commentators knew, the defensive staff was filled up with a pair of defensive back coaches and no defensive coordinator hire within sight.

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Quick thoughts on Pete Kwiatkowski

Pete Kwiatkowski has caught my eye many times over the years for what he's done as a defensive coordinator out west. One of his initial wins was serving as the D-line coach for the 2006 Boise State Broncos when they stopped up the Adrian Peterson Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl.