LONGHORNS ’59*, ’61*, ’62, ’63, ’68*, ’69, ’70, ’71 , ’72, ’73, ’75*, ’77, ’83, ’90, ’94*, ’95 (*Co-Champs)
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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 1963, ’69, ’70, 2005 BIG 12 CHAMPIONS • ‘96, ‘05, ‘09 SOUTHWESTTEXAS CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS • 1920, ’28, ’30, ’42, ’43, ’45, ’50, ’52, ’53*, LONGHORNS ’59*, ’61*, ’62, ’63, ’68*, ’69, ’70, ’71 , ’72, ’73, ’75*, ’77, ’83, ’90, ’94*, ’95 (*co-champs) Athletics Media Relations Department • P.O. Box 7399 • Austin, TX 78713-7399 • Office: 512/471-6036 • Fax: 512/471-6040 TEXAS WRAPS SECOND SPRING one of only six players in school history UNDER STRONG: Texas capped its with at least 1,000 receiving yards in a sea- 2015 SPRING second spring under head coach Charlie son with 1,051 in 2014. Nine of the 10 lost Strong on Saturday, April 18, with the offensive and defensive starters were either NOTES annual Orange-White Scrimmage. The selected in the 2015 NFL Draft or signed scrimmage concluded the four-week spring as free agents. William Russ and Michael practice season which began on March 25. Davidson each served as the No. 1 punter The Longhorns open the 2015 regular sea- last season, and both were seniors. Russ WHAT’S INSIDE... son on Sept. 5 at Notre Dame. ended his career No. 4 on the school’s all- time punting average (42.35) chart, with pg. 1 2015 pg. 8 Horns in the STARTERS RETURNING: Texas wel- all of his 66 attempts occurring last season. Schedule NFL comes back starters at 12 positions, includ- pg. 1 Quick Facts pg. 9-49 Returning ing seven on offense and five on defense. pg. 1 Horns Player Bios BREAKING DOWN THE 2015 SCHED- At-A-Glance pg. 50-60 Newcomer There are 11 offensive players who started ULE: UT will play eight of its 12 games pg. 2-3 Roster Bios a game in 2014 back in the fall, including this season against teams that reached pg. 4-8 Notes pg. 61-72 Coaches Bios offensive linemen Sedrick Flowers, Marcus a bowl game in 2014. Those eight bowl pg. 7 By The pg. 73-86 2014 Hutchins and Kent Perkins, who each start- teams all registered at least seven wins. Last Numbers Statistics ed all 13 games. There are 12 defensive season, Texas played nine teams that were players back who had starts in 2014, includ- in bowl games in 2013. As in most years, ing three with 10 or more. Cornerback Texas will play a challenging nonconfer- Duke Thomas started all 13 games, safety ence schedule, with Notre Dame and Rice notes as of May 11 Dylan Haines had 12, and defensive tackle both reaching bowl games a year ago. UT Hassan Ridgeway 10. The Longhorns also will also face Cal, a Power 5 Conference CONNECTING WITH THE HORNS return place-kicker Nick Rose. team that missed the postseason by one Twitter: ____________________ @Longhorn_FB only game. Texas open the season at Notre _________________________ @Strong_TexasFB STARTERS LOST: The Longhorns will Dame, as two of the top three winningest Facebook: _ www.facebook.com/TexasLonghorns have to replace 10 offensive and defensive programs in college football history meet. ________________www.facebook.com/utfootball starters, as well as their punter. The defense YouTube: _______________________________ Notre Dame holds an 8-2 series advan- was hit hardest with six starters having __ www.youtube.com/user/TexasLonghornsVideo tage, having won the most recent game in departed. Two of them - DT Malcom 1996 in Austin, 27-24. Longtime Southwest Brown and LB Jordan Hicks - earned All- Conference foes, Texas and Rice will meet TEXAS ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS America honors in 2014. Brown, a con- for the first time since 2011, the same sea- Assoc. AD/Media Relations Director: John Bianco sensus first-team All-American, was also son Cal faced the Longhorns the last time. E-Mail: [email protected] a finalist for both the Bronko Nagurski Trophy (nation’s top defensive player) Texas • 2015 Opponents Assoc. Media Relations Director: Thomas Stepp and Outland Trophy (nation’s best inte- Opponent Bowl, Result 2014 Record E-Mail: [email protected] rior lineman). Texas also lost Quandre Notre Dame Music Bowl, W 8-5 Diggs, a four-year starting cornerback, Rice Hawai’i Bowl, W 8-5 Assoc. Media Relations Director: Joe Hernandez defensive end Cedric Reed, a two-time California None 5-7 E-Mail: [email protected] All-Big 12 player, and two-year starting Oklahoma St. Cactus Bowl, W 7-6 safety Mykkele Thompson. In addition TCU Peach Bowl, W 12-1 Asst. Media Relations Director: Shawn Nestor Oklahoma Russell Athletic Bowl, L 8-5 to starting running back Malcolm Brown, E-Mail: [email protected] Kansas St. Alamo Bowl, L 9-4 the offense lost two of its starting wide Iowa St. None 2-10 receivers in Jaxon Shipley and John Harris. Kansas None 3-9 Shipley ended his career third on the UT W. Virginia Liberty Bowl, L 7-6 all-time receptions list (218) and sixth in Texas Tech None 4-8 receiving yards (2,510), and Harris became Baylor Cotton Bowl, L 11-2 4 2015 Texas Football Spring Guide • Notes COMPETITION AT QUARTERBACK: played only a handful of snaps during receiver remaining on the roster, having One year after starting 12 games at quar- 2013. The loss of senior center Dominic posted a combined 49 catches for 663 terback when starter David Ash went Espinosa (broken foot) in the opening receiving yards in 2013-14. Daje Johnson, down with an injury in the opener, junior game last season was a major blow as he a senior, has also shown flashes of his Tyrone Swoopes saw stiff competition was the only returning o-line starter from explosiveness, but was limited to just six from redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard in 2013. But last year’s offensive line eventu- games last season. However, in his career, the spring and that is expected to con- ally started to come together when Doyle Johnson has scored on an 84-yard run, a tinue into preseason practice. Head coach took over as the starting center in the sixth 70-yard reception and an 85-yard punt Charlie Strong said Heard had ‘really game. Flowers was the lone offensive line- return. There are also a number of other closed the gap’ heading into the Orange- man to start at the same position in all 13 options with junior Jacorey Warrick and White Scrimmage. “It’s good that you have games, though Hutchins had one start at sophomores Dorian Leonard, Lorenzo Joe competition because that makes both of right tackle and the final 12 at left tackle. and Armanti Foreman seeing the most them better,” Strong said. Swoopes played Last season, freshmen Elijah Rodriguez, time last season. Foreman and Joe were sparingly in six games as a true freshman Terrell Cuney and Alex Anderson all red- the most productive of that group, each during 2013 before being inserted into the shirted and now hope to add depth to the registering 10 receptions. Sophomores starting lineup in game two last season. unit. This spring, the returning group was Andrew Beck and Blake Whiteley will He went on to complete 224 of 384 passes buoyed by the addition of four incom- look to replace Swaim. Beck began last (58.3 percent) for 2,409 yards. Swoopes ing recruits. Brandon Hodges, Tristan year as a linebacker before moving to tight threw for more than 300 yards in three Nickelson, Garrett Thomas and Connor end in the preseason where he proved to games, which is tied for fourth on the UT Williams enrolled in classes in January be a capable blocker in his reserve role. single-season list. Heard, who led Guyer and added depth and competition dur- Whiteley redshirted in 2014 after transfer- High School to state titles as a junior and ing practice. “It’s always good when you ring from Arizona Western Community senior, served as the backup last season get depth, when you add four guys to the College where he played one season, but though he ended up redshirting. “What group, because it just helps now when emerged as the No. 1 JUCO tight end in happens is they push each other and get you go out to practice, you just don’t wear the nation. better and better—that’s what you want down a group,” head coach Charlie Strong to see,” Strong said after spring practice said in the spring. “Now you have some NO GRAY AREA: Texas will have to ended. “We didn’t have that issue last year, guys you can practice and go develop and replace running back Malcolm Brown, who but it’s good that we have that problem get better.” ended his career as the ninth-leading rusher now. Now, you just have a chance to watch in school history (2,678 yards) and started two of them go out and compete each and LOOKING FOR REPLACEMENTS AT all 13 games in 2014, but senior Johnathan every day.” WIDEOUT AND TIGHT END: The Gray has been a key part of the offense the Texas receiving corps is going through last three seasons. Gray ranks 15th on the STARTING O-LINE BACK IN 2015: an overhaul with the departure of starting UT career rushing list (2,118), but that The Longhorns hope to benefit in 2015 by wideouts John Harris and Jaxon Shipley, total could be higher had he not suffered an playing a number of inexperienced offen- and tight end Geoff Swaim. Last season, Achilles injury which caused him to miss sive linemen last season. All five starters - Harris (68 for 1,051) and Shipley (59 for the final four games in 2013.