Football’s Future
Pre-COVID University of Texas fans cheer at a local Austin football game right before kickoff. By: Karen Given
Take a dive into predictions on what will happen next season for the University of Texas By: Jase Brown Your team is down 13 to 17 in the conference finals. They are on the goalline with five seconds left on the clock. This one play will decide the fate of the team. They snap the ball and the crowd falls silent. All eyes fall to the quarterback as he throws the ball into the air. Your team has played so hard this season, and this is their chance! The University of Texas football team, the Longhorns, have had their fair share of wins and losses throughout the years. However, since 2014, the University of Texas, or UT, has had many disappointing football seasons. In fact, UT has had three different head coaches in the past six years and not one
of them has delivered. For this upcoming season a new head coach, Steve Sarkisian, will lead the Longhorns. Along with him there is also a new Offensive Coordinator named Bo Davis and a new Defensive Coordinator named Alex Grinch. They have so many new coaches that, in essence, it is basically an entirely new coaching staff. Along with the coaching changes, we have also seen players leave. Sam Ehlinger was UT’s most recent quarterback that has now moved on to the pros. But what happens next season is unknown, and the team’s performance will depend on many different things. I spoke to two award winning sports journalists who specialize in UT Longhorn football to find out
what next season may look like.
Kirk Bhols, an Austin American Statesman sports journalist, recieveing the 2018 Sports Writer of the Year award. Photo courtesy of Kirk Bhols
Kirk Bhols has been a UT sports journalist for over 40 years, and currently works for the Austin American Statesman. He says there are two possible
