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I'm trying to see how many characters I can use in a headline before I get some kind of error message. Still hasn't happened yet.

Since Bob McKay wrapped up a Texas career (1968-69) worthy of induction into the College Football Hall of Fame three decades before Lyle Sendlein began his time with the Longhorns (2002-06), the 2005 national championship team’s starting center had an uphill climb to become the top player in program history to wear No. 62. Still, Sendlein started each of the 26 games on the schedule over his last two seasons on campus before starting 133 combined regular-season and playoff games over nine NFL seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. One of those starts Sendlein made came in Super Bowl XLIII, which pitted him against Texas and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Casey Hampton (the Steelers, with former Longhorns Tony Hills and Limas Sweed also on the roster, won, 27-23). Sendlein’s second career start in burnt orange saw him jump from the frying pan into the fire, in the second game of the 2005 season, playing one of the biggest roles on a star-studded offense when No. 2 Texas went into Ohio Stadium, at night. It upended No. 4 Ohio State, 25-22, kickstarting, in earnest, a run to the program's most recent national title. Sendlein’s redshirt junior season saw him replace departed starting center Jason Glynn, who was with the Longhorns for five seasons (2000-04) and started each of the last 38 games of his career. The Longhorn offensive line (left tackle Jonathan Scott, left guard Kasey Studdard, right guard Will Allen and right tackle Justin Blalock) had experience to share, combining for 89 career starts between the four returning starters from a squad that went 11-1 with a thrilling Rose Bowl win over Michigan in 2004. The 2005 Texas offensive line started the season as a group oozing potential and fulfilled it, ending an unforgettable 13-0 campaign as arguably the best unit in school history. Sendlein helped elevate the line, which paved the way for an offense quarterbacked by Vince Young to record the best single-season marks in school history for points (50.2) and total yards per game (512.1). When it comes to the similarities between the Longhorn offensive lines in 2005 and 2025, a new starting center is roughly where they end. Cole Hutson started 13 games as a true freshman right guard in 2022, so he’s not new to the starting lineup. Hutson also logged 389 snaps in a reserve role last season, including a season-high 52 in the team's College Football Playoff first-round win over Clemson and 35 in the loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. The return bout with the Buckeyes, on Aug. 30 in Columbus, will mark Hutson’s starting debut at center. He’s taking the baton from Jake Majors, who signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent after starting a school-record 57 games in his career (2020-24). Unlike Sendlein’s situation, there isn’t a lot of starting experience around Hutson. Major is one of four departed starters, accounting for more than 35 percent of the 161 combined starts Texas lost from last season. DJ Campbell (30 career starts at right guard) and projected starting left tackle Trevor Goosby (two starts as a redshirt freshman last season) have 45 combined career starts between them. Those three account for all of the starting experience among Kyle Flood’s group. What the group lacks in starting experience, it makes up for in raw, high-upside talent. If Neto Umeozulu and Brandon Baker continue to trend in the right direction from where they ended spring practice, the group charged with protecting Arch Manning and creating running lanes for a deep backfield has a tremendous opportunity to grow together en route to a possible third consecutive berth in the CFP. While the 2005 offensive line merely added a new starting center to a mix of talented blockers coming together at the right time, the remaining members of a highly-touted 2022 signing class (Hutson, Campbell, Umeozulu and Connor Robertson are on the 2025 roster, Kelvin Banks and Cam Williams are in the NFL and Malik Agbo will suit up for West Virginia after entering the transfer portal during the spring window) and their 2025 linemates will get a good idea of where they stand and what's possible in Steve Sarkisian's fifth season leading the program after traveling to the Horseshoe in 62 days. View full news story

Change you panties

Got just enough of a taste just to never see it again

Volantis should be your Friday night guy next year. What a luxury to have him for two more years

I wanted to see some stud pickups that were available, but it looks like Coach is picking up potential complimentary players to the star core instead of trying to replace them. It's a fine line when you have good recruits coming in. It's also the opposite of what tech is doing (they literally trying to replace current players with all americans from other teams). What Coach is doing is similar to Sark's approach to the football team, use the portal to fill gaps from recruiting, not replace the ones that decided to sign with you in the first place.

An open practice would be nice. The last one was the 2024 spring game, where Arch went apeshit and I think I just answered my own question.

Okay so 25/27 hit rate. Point still stands that they aren’t clickbait.

D. Moore was a hi

Every hi last cycle ended up as a public commitment except for Javion Hilson. So yeah, the hit rate is pretty good. No need to call someone a brown noser as the guy who walks around campus taking photos all the time and posting them on multiple sites.

In this era of NIL deals the silent means a lot more than it used to

We've had plenty of requests for a full list of players transferring out and transferring in through the portal. How we're doing it is the best way to keep track of the roster.

Jeff/Blake Why don't we just report on players leaving that actually contributed to the team's success in 25? Almost all of the leaves are "ho-humm". Or, as an alternative, just build an XL with 3 columns...In, Out, Undecided. We can check each morning, then move on.

This one is quite interesting. From the bleachers, it looks like Coach is building flexibility with his pickups. None of his pickups are super stars, but they all offer something. Gonzales may be the illusive left-handed bat (as well as shutdown reliever)

Yeah right you know the percentages huh? Think for yourself dawg don't be brainwashed or a brown noser. 🤣

😂😂

Hopefully we get more than just one media session to watch practice this fall.

Now it’s perfect

yep...but all kidding aside, Trey Owens is a stubbed toe away from QB1. I wish we all could see SOME video of him from the upcoming fall "camp." He's big, great mechanics, decent mobility, and has a strong arm to say the least. If Sark didn't think he was good enough to keep, then he would have processed him. That didn't happen.

Time for QB2.

Who cares, they dont mean shite.

Marcell Reed and throwing don’t go together.