Mack Brown News

Early in the 2012 season, Florida coaches discovered something puzzling about running back Matt Jones .

It really wasn't that long ago, but in college football terms, it seems like a half century has gone by.

The salary range for coordinators in major college football has gone beyond $500,000 for upper-echelon schools, and Ohio State is determined not to get left behind.

Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown prior to kick off against the Oregon State Beavers at the Alamo Bowl in the Alamodome.

Dylan Moses, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound highly-coveted 8th grade football player, tweeted this week that he received a scholarship offer Texas.

Larry Porter looking nationally for another running back. If the pursuit of Louisiana star running back Leonard Fournette wasn't enough to indicate that the Longhorns are in the market for another running back in the 2014 class, the offer to Plano West's Auston Anderson definitely put it over the top.

When ESPN put out its list of the top prep prospects for the 2014 signing class, Leonard Fournette was number one on the list.

One fan at the gathering of the Central Florida Gator Club on Wednesday night asked when "sexy wins" would start being the norm instead of the aberration.

But despite the recent funk, one that is slowly getting ironed out, the Longhorns still have had and continue to pursue the top-level recruit, especially in the Lone Star State.

Color me a fan of the Emerald Isle Classic played between Notre Dame and Navy in Ireland last fall.

The Texas Longhorns are one of those programs that always puts together one of the best recruiting classes in the country, regardless of how things are going.

Yes, things are now bad enough for the 'Horns that doing something virtually every other team does is now worthy of scorn, apparently.

Bishop Dunne offensive tackle Jovan Pruitt has been one of hottest names in recruiting this spring.

As we explored earlier this week, Alabama has been as balanced offensively as anybody in the SEC over the last three years.

The Texas Longhorns are trying to return to their former position competing for Big 12 titles every year and two separate ESPN articles this week predict that Texas will be the best team in a conference that will feature new quarterbacks or quarterback competitions on nearly every team.

Texas, Florida and California have long been among the best football recruiting hotbeds in the country and ESPN's recent release of its first 2014 ESPN 150 reflected that.

The SEC has the toughest competition in college football, so the pressure on the head coaches to succeed has reached senseless levels.

Although much of it was in line with what Gators fans had expected following spring practice, there was one particularly unexpected personnel shift on the offensive side of the ball.