Said this when strong was here. Saying it again now.
This program will continue to suck until they stop trying to fit these HS players who almost all grew up in various spread systems into these power running type of offenses. It will never work.
For proof look no farther than the inbreds up north. Around the mid 2000s Stoops took a look around and saw that his big recruiting bases were all high schools running various spread systems. He then adapted and turned his program around to match and it's worked like a boss ever since and has continued with a spread guy in Riley.
Look at what happened at Baylor in the late 2000s. They looked around and grabbed one of the early adopters/innovators of a form of spread offense. Within a few seasons Briles had them winning the conference and contending for a NC. At fucking Baylor. That's how powerful it is.
Even in our own program take a look at 2016. In only 1 season where Strong, 2 years too late, went out and got a spread guy to run that offense. With no QB worth a shit and a completely shit OL that offense put up 492 total yards per game and produced a 2000 yd rusher. With no QB and a shit line.
That team had a shit defense and just didn't have the talent on either side to make up for Strong's shit coaching, but they had finally matched the offensive system to what Texas HS QBs, OL, RBs, and receivers have been doing since junior high and it showed.
The talent level is getting better but won't matter and no 10+ win season will ever happen again until this program takes a cue from the dirt burglars and stops trying to establish gold mines while sitting on a mountain full of diamonds.