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Could Texas Be ‘Playoff Crashers’ This Season?

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May 16, 2022

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A 5-7 season beneath coach Steve Sarkisian a yr in the past would not precisely scream Faculty Soccer Playoff implications for the Texas Longhorns headed into the 2022-2023 season. However in a sport that has been reworked by the switch portal and NIL, a shock group can have an opportunity at “crashing” into the ultimate 4 groups remaining.

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Steve Sarkisian

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247Sports shaped an inventory of 10 potential groups that might “crash the playoff in 2022.” The Longhorns have been included together with Houston, Wake Forest, Baylor, BYU, USC, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Oregon, and Wisconsin.

The Longhorns will quickly be on their approach to the SEC, a convention that many anticipate Texas to wrestle in. Sarkisian’s expertise teaching with an SEC powerhouse like Alabama definitely aids in that transition, however he is aware of the Longhorns have to undertake their very own profitable id with the intention to discover success.

“There’s a whole lot of nice elements of [Alabama] that I believe we will take with us, however naturally, we have now to do the issues I am comfy doing and doing it the way in which that most accurately fits us,” Sarkisian mentioned at Large 12 coaches conferences earlier this month. “There’s nice coaches within the SEC, there’s actually good gamers, there’s massive individuals, there’s quick individuals. We have to assemble a extremely good employees, which I believe we have achieved. We have to recruit on a extremely excessive degree, which I believe that we have proven that we will do. After which in the end get these gamers sufficiently big, quicker and stronger.”

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