Texas Football: 3 ways cancellation of spring game impacts Longhorns

3. No early time to adjust for the Texas coaching staff

What made spring camp so pivotal for the Texas football program was getting all the recent coaching hires since the end of the 2019 regular season comfortable and adjusted to life on the Forty Acres. Head coach Tom Herman will now have a lot of pressure on his shoulders to make this coaching staff gel early on in the 2020 season.

Texas made new hires at each of the three key coordinator spots, and overturned a lot of their positional coaches after the regular season finale win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Black Friday last November. They brought in former Rutgers head coach Chris Ash to replace Todd Orlando as the next defensive coordinator and former Ohio State passing game coordinator Mike Yurcich to replace Tim Beck as the next offensive coordinator.

Other key coaching changes on this Texas staff under Herman’s direction included the promotion of Andre Coleman to wide receivers coach and the addition of Jay Valai as the cornerbacks coach. There’s a number of other key coaching changes that the Longhorns made already, but those are the highlights of the bunch.

Now that Texas won’t get to integrate all the new schemes they will be playing with this fall in during spring camp, they will have to place a large emphasis on fall camp. Texas needs to get it together before they take on LSU on the road in Baton Rouge in Week 2. They won’t have much time to do so this fall.