Texas football set a new team record coming out of the 2019 spring semester. The Longhorns may still be months away from the start of the upcoming college football season, but that has not stopped the team from making positive offseason headlines, only this time, it came away from the gridiron and in the classroom.
For the first time in team history, the Longhorns posted a 2.89 overall team GPA for this past spring semester, marking the highest overall team grade point average for Texas football. (The team GPA includes the combined grade point average of all members — around 90 total — of the Texas football program enrolled in classes for the 2019 spring semester.)
The Longhorns started to make strides in the classroom under former head coach Charlie Strong and have continued to impress away from the field with third-year head coach Tom Herman and his staff at the helm. University of Texas officials recently announced the Longhorns had extended their streak of posting at least a 970 in multi-year Academic Progress Rate for the last four consecutive school years.
Texas football is back on campus as the Longhorns make their way to the summer semester while also getting ready for the upcoming season under the direction of head strength and conditioning coach Yancy McKnight. The Longhorns have entered the second week of McKnight's offseason conditioning program, and recently welcomed a number of new faces to the weight room. Joining the nine 2019 early enrollees already on campus, the majority of the summer enrollees from Herman's No. 3 ranked 2019 recruiting class moved into the dorms over the weekend, and are getting accustomed to life on the Forty Acres as they officially begin their journey with Texas football.
“I am really, really proud of the diligence of the methodical nature in which we have gone about our business in recruiting in the last couple years in our operation,” Herman said of his 2019 signees on National Signing Day.
“I'm proud of our evaluation process, and the thoroughness of our system to evaluate these young men, and I think you see as the experts have a chance to watch more senior video to interact with these young men at some of these All-Star bowl games, things of that nature, you see those experts start to agree with our early evaluations.”
The Longhorns approach the 2019 season with a lot of hype surrounding the team after Texas finished last year with the program's first 10-win record since 2009, which was capped off with a win over Georgia to be crowned Allstate Sugar Bowl champions in the program's first appearance in a New Year's Six Bowl game since the inception of the College Football Playoff.
Texas football officially begins Year 3 of the Herman era on August 31 when the Longhorns host Louisiana Tech for the 2019 season opener.