Longhorns Daily News: Unlike other schools, apparently, Texas football players consistently attend class
ATLANTA, GA DECEMBER 07: Georgia assistant coach Will Muschamp reacts during the SEC Championship game between the Texas Longhorns and the Georgia Bulldogs on December 7th, 2024 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Second tenured Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp spilled the beans most of us are already well aware of in the world of college athletics, and that’s that student-athletes are usually more athletes than they are students during their time on respective campuses. But that’s supposedly not the case in Austin, where Muschamp recently bragged on how the program’s players are the type to consistently attend their classes.
“Somebody that embraces work ethic, somebody that wants to improve and get better every single day, somebody that wants to get coached hard and developed. In our society right now, sometimes that’s easy to spot that they don’t, and we’ve got to make sure we stay away from those guys who don’t want to get developed and coached the right way … (They’ve) got to have a good transcript. Actually, our players go to school here at Texas.
We actually go to class. Not like some other places,” Muschamp told reporters, according to FanSided . Shots fired, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, among others.
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Good Lord. The Longhorns can win the SEC with that squad. Add another sport to this list that Texas will be elite at.