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The Texas Longhorns loaded up with high-impact transfers as their 2026 College Football Playoff push begins. Seven new starters, including Raleek Brown, Cam Coleman, Michael Masunas, Melvin Siani, Rasheem Biles, and Bo Mascoe, elevate both the floor and ceiling of Coach Steve Sarkisian's squad—could this portal class put Texas over the top?
BK breaks down the roster overhaul, emphasizing improved offensive line depth and upgraded special teams. Will Muschamp’s unique perspective on Sarkisian's offense reveals why Texas is so tough to defend. Plus, attention shifts to basketball as Sean Miller’s portal checklist targets Dailyn Swain and Matas Vokietaitis, with Kansas power forward Bryson Tiller emerging as a potential prize. Can Texas build the most complete football and basketball rosters in the nation for 2026?
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This year's Portal class is the real deal, and it's a big reason why the Long Horns
have a legitimate shot to win it all.
In 2026, I'll tell you why on today's episode of Lockdown Long Horns.
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Will Muschamp talked about why Steve Sarkeesian's offense is so difficult to stop in segment
two, and the NCAA men's basketball transfer portal is officially open today.
We'll discuss Sean Miller's plans and strategies in segment number three.
But first, we've talked a lot about recruiting.
We've talked a lot about development.
But if you really want to understand why Texas looks like a championship caliber roster
right now, you've got to look at what they did in the transfer portal.
Because unlike some past years, this wasn't just a plug a hole here or there type of
off season.
Texas went into the portal and added a number of high impact players across the board.
I mean, we're talking about a group that realistically includes at least six starters.
And I think I'm being very modest with that number.
You can begin with the headliners, right?
At running back, it's either going to be Relic Brown or Hollywood's mother, who technically
starts both of them, honestly, are going to play a lot at wide receiver.
Camp Coleman walks in with the expectations of being a difference maker and this team's
wide receiver won immediately at tied end.
Michael Masunis is a guy who's expected to help out a lot, both as a blocker and a pass
catcher on the offensive line.
Melvin, Ciani and Lauren C. Moore are expected to be key pieces.
We know that Ciani is a starter already.
He's been running with running with the ones easy for me to say all spring long.
Lauren C. Moore is not here yet, but I do think he will be a plug and play starter once
he arrives this summer.
And then on defense, I mean, Rashim Biles expected to be a key piece.
I think he's going to be one of the most impactful pieces on Will Mushchamp's defense.
And then in the secondary, pro Masco, who we just talked about yesterday, he looks like
he might be this team's number one corner from day one.
That's seven.
I just gave you seven names right there, seven legitimate starters.
C. Moore was the seventh who I was a bit back and forth on it.
But again, I think he's going to be one of this team's top five on the offensive line.
Seven starters from the portal.
That's how you raise the floor and the ceiling of a roster in one single off season.
But here's the thing.
It doesn't just stop with those guys because what really separates this portal class isn't
just the top end talent.
It's the depth that the long horns have been able to add as well.
A number of guys who might not technically be starters when the season rolls around
in September.
But guys who are absolutely going to play winning football for this team in 2026.
Take a guy like Ian Jafrard, the defensive tackle transfer from Arkansas, already a rotational
player at worst pushing for a starting job on the D line right now.
This is not a developmental ad.
A guy that you hope three or four years down the road can be a key contributor.
This is a guy who's forcing the coaching staff to make big decisions.
Jafrard played a significant amount of snaps in the SEC at Arkansas this past year.
He's a massive human being, filling a void left by guys like Travis Shaw, who is off
to the NFL Texas needs that massive body on the interior of the defensive line and
Ian Jafrard can be that dude.
I think of a guy like juice, just as cryer, juice is the nickname, the linebacker transfer
from Florida State.
A guy going into his fourth year of college football.
He's going to play a ton for this team this year, probably not a starter technically.
You got regime Biles.
You've got Tianth and he Smith there, but you're going to see juice, cryer on the field
a lot in every game this season and in big moments this fall as well.
Then you know, look at the specialist, we don't spend a ton of time talking about special
teams on this show, but all three specialist spots, kicker, putter and long snapper, obviously
leaving out the returners here.
We know what Ryan Nibblet is all about coming back for another season, but kicker, putter
and long snapper, all of those are accounted for from the transfer portal.
That might not be sexy, but that's how you win close games and that's how you avoid
losing games that you shouldn't lose and unfortunately that third phase has not been
as consistent as we would like in the past two seasons with Jeff Banks as the special
team's coordinator.
So you've got that.
And then at wide receiver, we spent some time last week talking about Sterling Burkhal
through.
Yeah, Cam Coleman's generating all of the headlines and understandably so, but Sterling
Burkhalter, the transfer from Wake Forest, has been talked about as a model of consistency,
a guy going into a sixth year of college ball, not necessarily the flashiest name, but
every good team has guys like that dependable, reliable, do your job players.
That's what Sterling Burkhalter is on the offensive line, and I'm going on a tangent
here.
And I talked about Melvin Ciani and Lauren C. Moore.
Don't forget about Dylan Sikorski who started six games at Oregon State last year.
That guy gives you quality depth, John Thane Newman coming in from Texas A&M quality
depth.
If there's one place on your team where you want to have depth, it's the offensive line.
Injuries happen there a lot.
And now you start to feel like Texas is in a much better position to absorb that compared
to where they were last off season.
Remember Texas added zero alignment from the transfer portal last off season.
It was a big problem.
Something we talked about a lot at this time last year.
And clearly it was a bad decision from Steve Sarkiesian and Kyle Flood.
They learned from their mistakes.
They went out and added five so far offensive lineman from the portal.
Of course, Paris Patterson coming in from SMU.
That one happened just last week.
So when you add it all up, you're looking at roughly a dozen or so players from the
portal who are going to be key contributors for this team this year.
There's 20 in the entire class.
Some of these guys are stash in development dudes, but there's a dozen, maybe more than
that, who aren't just filling out the roster, who aren't just competing in practice, guys
who are improving this football team.
And that's the bigger picture here when people talk about Texas and say, man, that roster
is loaded.
Yeah.
Of course, recruiting plays a huge role in that.
But the portal has been the accelerator and obviously in today's college football, everyone
looks at what Indiana just did this past season, winning the national championship.
They built most of their talented roster through the portal.
The long horns are doing that right now.
They're accelerating this rebuild.
It's not a rebuild.
It's just a reload for more they've been this thing has gone from really talented to legitimately
one of the most complete rosters in college football in the span of really just a couple
of weeks.
But I'm calling it a couple of months to cover this entire off season.
Now let me add this.
This matters.
We've seen portal classes here in Austin before we've seen big names come with hype and sometimes
it doesn't work.
Sometimes the fit isn't right.
Sometimes the development doesn't happen.
Sometimes expectations are not met.
Ajay Hall, Jalil Billingsley, Isaiah Neor, Jalen Katalon, Ben Davis, just a few names
who didn't live up to the height.
So I'm not sitting here telling y'all that the long horns are going to bet a thousand
with this class.
Not all 20 of these additions are going to be superstars or stars or even big contributors
on this team, but a lot of them are.
I could say that confidently right now.
And that's what makes this portal class feel different.
You're six for stark six portal class.
I have a feeling when it's all said and done we're going to be ranking this one at the top
of the list of those six everything that we've been hearing internally.
These guys are the real deal top the bottom is not just one or two hits.
Most of this group is already delivering the starters look like starters.
The depth pieces look like real contributors, the specialists are solid.
The culture fits are there.
The versatility is there.
And then you stack that up on top of what the long horns already had coming back.
That's how you build a team that can sustain success over the course of a very long season.
And that's what we hope that it is a very long season that goes 15 16 games deep into
next January.
I'd really like to be in Vegas at the end of next January.
Wouldn't y'all?
That'd be a lot of fun.
Obviously, we're the national championship game is going to be the beginning of 2020 set.
So in closing, this portal class didn't just help Texas.
It has completely elevated the long horns.
And if this team ends up playing deep into the postseason like we all want.
There's a really good chance.
We look back and say this group of portal additions is what put them over the top love
everything I'm hearing about these guys right now.
And credit Steve Sarkeesian and Brandon Harris and the entire coaching and recruiting
staffs for putting this all together.
There's a reason Sarke is sounding so confident talking about his squad.
A lot of it has to do with what his group did in the transfer portal.
What say you would love to hear from y'all in the comments below or you as confident as
I am in the portal class.
Do you have some more questions than me?
Do you have some questions for me?
Always love here and back from y'all in the comments below.
All right.
Let's shift gears here.
Last chip was recently asked about Steve Sarkeesian's offense and why it can be so difficult
to stop.
His answer got me excited.
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The Longhorns new defensive coordinator will must champ.
He's got a pretty unique perspective on Steve Sarkey's offense because I only spent
the last couple of years actively trying to stop as a consultant at Georgia in both 2024
and 2025.
Must champ was a part of the game planning process against Texas and an all three matchups
between Texas and Georgia.
Unfortunately, the Bulldogs had a lot of success and their defense led by Kirby Smart with
the help of Will Must champ did a really, really good job of containing Steve Sarkey's
Texas offense.
But the fact that Must champ has gone up against that offense the last couple of years,
like when you hear him talk about it, it's not just theory.
It's first hand experience.
And now that he's been in Austin for the last few months, and he's gone up against it
throughout the course of spring practice this year.
That understanding from Will Must champ of Steve Sarkey's offense has only deep it.
Coach Boone recently did an interview with the Texas and O show on Longhorn Network.
Shout out to my guys Nick Shuley and Rod Babers for handling that.
Must champ was asked about what makes Sarkey's offense so difficult to defend.
And when he was asked, he pointed to a few core things, but instead of me paraphrasing
it all, it's a good time to let you hear from Will Must champ himself.
Check it out.
First of all, it does a great job of creating matchups.
You know, and taking advantage of his really good talented players and we have a lot.
So I think that's number one.
He grew up again with Pete Carroll and Nick Savin.
So he's done a great job of listening what gives issues to the defense and he knows those
things.
And he sits down and I mean, he presents a lot of issues schematically for you to get
ready for in a game, which I've done before.
But I think the most important thing is he's very hard-headed in the run game.
That's a great thing.
Okay.
Because most coordinators nowadays, if you stop the run game, they'll quit and it creates
a one-dimensional game, which is easy for a defensive coordinator to call a game.
And that's the one thing that I can say about Coach Sarkey's and he is going to stay with
the run.
He's not going to get away from it.
And that's something you've always got to keep in mind as a play-caller is knowing
sky.
You know, you can't get in your overload pressures because he may balance you out in
the run game.
And that's where he creates some issues for you.
So there was Will Mushchamp again on Longhorn Network recently and you know, what stood out
to me hearing Mushchamp break it all down is a couple of things.
First, Sarkey's isn't just calling place.
He's creating problems.
That's why Chris Delacante and the powers that be at Texas fell in love with him when
he was the offensive coordinator at Alabama.
He was incredible at doing that.
Like at the core of everything that Sark does is his ability to manufacture matchups and
put his best players in positions to succeed.
Might sound simple, but at the highest level of college football, that's the entire game.
Can you dictate terms?
Can you force the defense to adjust to you?
Steve Sarkey's does that about as well as pretty much anybody in the sport.
And a big reason why he goes back to his background is Steve Sarkey's and he talks about his
mentors all the time.
Pete Carroll and Nick Saban, like that matters.
Those are two of the best defensive minds in the history of college football.
So Steve Sarkey's doesn't just understand offense.
He understands how defenses are built because of his time with those guys.
He knows the rules defenders are taught.
He knows how their coach to react.
More importantly, he knows how to design plays that kind of put those rules in conflict,
which is what can make Steve Sarkey's system so difficult to deal with.
And you heard Will Mushchamp talk about it there.
You hear coaches talk about I discipline and assignment football.
Like defenses are built on structure.
Every player is a job, a gap, a responsibility.
That's how you play fast.
That's how you play aggressively.
Sarkey's offense is designed to stress that structure to create confusion,
to force hesitation, to make defenders wrong.
Even though they even though they might be doing what they're actually being coached to do.
That's a weird part about Sarkey.
It's like in some ways, it's actually harder for him to call plays against the defense
that isn't sound because sometimes when a defense is chaotic or undisciplined,
then it's tougher to predict how they'll react.
But against a well-coached structure defense,
I think about that huge Texas win against Nick Sabin's Alabama squad in Tuscaloosa in 2023.
Like case in point right there, Sarkey's at his best.
He thrives against structured defenses because he knows how to attack them.
Another element that Will Mushchamp brought up that is going to be a huge factor
for the Long Horns in 2026.
Sarkey commitment to the run game.
A lot of offensive coordinators and play callers nowadays
will completely abandon the run the moment it stops working.
They get behind the chains, they get behind on the scoreboard,
they start throwing it every down.
Suddenly the defense knows exactly what's coming.
And that's when a defensive coordinator can really start dialing things up.
I'll say this.
I think Will Mushchamp was being a bit over a complimentary of his coach,
who's also his boss, so you understand it.
Because I could think of a few moments,
probably enough, one of them was last year's Georgia game in Athens,
where I think Sark did abandon the run game,
so he's not perfect at it.
And there are coaches who always do.
But generally speaking,
Steve Sarkey's in stays committed to the run,
more than a lot of other play callers in the sport.
And that's intentional because it prevents
an opposing defense from becoming one-dimensional in how they attack you.
You think about like the most aggressive pressures
and Mushchamp alluded to this too.
Overload blitzes like they are designed to overwhelm pass protection.
You send more defenders than the offense can block.
You create chaos in the back field.
But that's a trade-off.
You're sacrificing structure against the run.
You're giving up gap integrity at times.
So if an offense is predictable and clearly in pass mode,
a lot easier to call as a defensive coordinator.
But if an offense is still willing to run the ball in those situations,
you've got a problem because if you make the wrong call,
then it can be a big play.
I'm eating a piece of hair right now.
Sorry, I keep rubbing my face.
But that's what Steve Sarkey's enforces defenses to deal with.
Doesn't let you get comfortable.
Doesn't let you dictate the game.
He keeps you honest every single snap when he's at his best.
Obviously having a dual thread quarterback definitely helps stress a defense even more.
Along with that with Arch Manning this year.
But the moment you become predictable,
good defenses will crush you.
Shark, when he's on, avoids that in large part
because he understands defensive structure.
He understands tendencies and he doesn't just fall into being one dimensional.
That's why you hear so many coaches.
It's not just coaches who are working for Shark.
Coaches all over the sport spend so much time
talking highly of Steve Sarkey's offense.
That's the big takeaway here.
And for me, in 2026, look,
we've seen some really explosive Steve Sarkey's and offenses in the past.
At other places, Texas has had some really good ones,
but they haven't hit that peak level of firepower just yet.
Think about what we saw from that 2020 Alabama offense.
Even without that, the scheme's really good.
And this team has been to two playoffs in the last three years.
And they've been in the mix for conference championships as well.
But now with all of the talent on this roster,
the quarterback, the running backs, the receivers, the offensive,
like it feels like Shark has everything he needs
or this offense to really take off.
And you combine the talent, the personnel,
with Steve Sarkey's in calling the shots.
This offense has a chance to be one of the toughest
to defend in the country.
And obviously that's what we hope,
because we'll mean the long horns are making a deep run
in the college football playoff.
So there you go.
Cool to hear Will Mush champ talking about Stark
and what makes his offense is very, very good
and difficult to slow down.
What say y'all?
Your thoughts on Will Mush champ had to say
your thoughts on Steve Sarkey's offense.
What are your expectations for that side of the ball in 2026?
One segment to go.
Let's keep the portal conversation going,
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See, college football is on the brain still at all times.
We've been talking about it for the first 20 minutes
of today's show.
The college basketball transfer portal officially
opens today.
For the women in open yesterday, for the men in open today,
now that the season is officially over,
you've already started to see some reports
on social media about who's going to enter the portal
before today.
But today is the first official day,
where names will actually start to populate the portal
and visits can begin this Friday, April 10th.
We're technically in a dead period right now for recruiting,
which is very interesting.
Obviously, we know coaches are talking to agents and players
and recruiting is still happening.
But by the law, we are in a dead period technically
that will end later this week.
And again, visits can begin starting this Friday.
So there will be a lot of folks making their way
to Austin, Texas this weekend.
The off-season slash portal checklist for Sean Miller,
at least for me, here are the things
that I want coach Miller to do.
Number one, convinced Dale and Swain to stick around
with the help of NIL.
Dale and Swain's got an MBA decision looming.
The beauty of the college basketball process,
what separates it from other sports is,
Dale and Swain can technically test the MBA draft water,
seeking to clear for the draft.
But as long as he doesn't hire an agent,
he's got some time to decide to come back to Texas.
So I fully expect Dale and Swain
to at least declare for the draft and meet with teams
and learn where they have him slotted,
where he'd be drafted if he decided to go pro.
If he doesn't like what he hears,
he could come back to Texas.
If he likes what he hears, look,
Texas can offer him a lot in terms of NIL money.
But Dale and Swain's ultimate goal
is to be an MBA player.
So that's priority number one is Sean Miller
and the powers that be the big money donors at Texas
try to come up with an NIL package good enough
to convince Dale and Swain to stick around for one more year
because I'd feel a heck of a lot better
about this entire team.
If the guy who led the Long Horns
and pretty much every statistical category
decides to run it back for one more year,
don't let modest vocatitis leave easy for me to say,
I know polarizing at times this past year,
but he was really, really good,
especially in the tournament for the Long Horns.
Is he perfect?
No, but he just wrapped up his true sophomore year
of college basketball and he got so much better
from the beginning of the season to the end of the season.
Think about what he can be with another couple of years
of development under Sean Miller in this system.
Seven foot big guy who is tough to guard
gives you a little something, something on defense.
Don't let modest vocatitis leave.
I assume he's gonna cost more than he did this past season,
find a way to keep him around.
He keeps Swain and modest.
That is a very, very good core to go along
with some of the recruits that you're bringing in.
And then figure out what you're gonna do
with Nick Cody, Cam Heidi and Sim Wilcher.
I kind of lumped those three guys together.
If we're being honest, I'd be surprised
if Sim Wilcher returned next year.
I would be surprised if Cam Heidi did not return next year.
Nick Cody to me is kind of 50-50 right now.
Played really well for Texas in the NCAA tournament
when Lucina Treyora got hurt and Texas didn't really have
anywhere else to turn.
Cody had some great games and some great moments.
Does that make him a more valuable commodity out there
in the open market?
Does a team offer Nick Cody a starting job somewhere else?
Does he feel like he can get more minutes somewhere else?
If he does, he will go.
I think Sean Miller would like to have him back
as a dev piece.
I'd like to have him back as a dev piece,
but I don't want him as the first big guy off the bench.
Maybe if he goes somewhere else, he can be that guy.
So now we go to external things,
what I want Sean Miller to do.
Number one, find a true point guard.
Now all the guys who played point guard
for you this past year are gone.
Jordan Pope, Tramon Mark, I mentioned Sim Wilson.
He's not technically gone, but I think he's going to leave.
None of those three were really true point guards.
Anyways, you have to find a real facilitator
who can also score too,
but the assist numbers for this team this past year were a joke.
Now, somehow Texas still had a really efficient offense,
but Sean Miller talked about it a lot throughout the year.
He's like, it's not normal that our offense is as good
as it is despite the fact that we don't really pass the ball
all heck of a lot.
And that's not like a normal Sean Miller thing.
His teams are usually predicated on great flow and ball movement
and motion on the offense event.
Sean Miller's perfect world.
Once he gets more of his guys in here,
that's what the offense is going to look like,
having a true point guard obviously goes a long way
into making that happen.
He had a power forward with some versatility.
Face up ability on offense,
a guy who can defend in the paint on defense,
he need another rim protector to help modest folks
tie this out on the low block.
Texas did not have that in it.
Austin, a guy who's big, a guy who can play on both ends.
I wouldn't hate a guy who can stretch the floor as well.
That's that versatility piece right there.
You need a power forward though, who is a starter.
You also need a backup center, right?
A backup for modest.
Rim protection, rebounding the key here, that matters.
And big guys are not cheap in the portal.
So you need a starting power forward.
If modest stays, you don't need a starting center.
That's great, but you need some more depth on the front line.
You're losing Christina Treyori.
Again, Nick Cody's undersized.
And I'm not sure if he's coming back,
you need two big guys.
And obviously of Dale and Swain leaves,
you're gonna have to find a really good small forward as well.
So those are kind of the top of mind things for me,
for Sean Miller.
We'll give more specific names going forward.
I will give you all one on today's show.
A name that intrigues me a lot.
A guy who reportedly entered the portal.
I guess it came out that he was entering the portal.
The reports came out yesterday.
I'm all over the place here.
And you're in the end of this episode.
So I've lost the ability to speak English.
But one name that intrigues me a bit.
Kansas Power Forward, Bryson Tiller.
Not the R&B singer and rapper, a different Bryson Tiller.
Although we might be making plenty of references
to the artist if the basketball player ends up in Austin.
6'11, averaged 8.6 rebounds
and just over a block of game at TU this past season
as a freshman, top 20 recruit in the country in last year's class
started 31 games for the J-Hawks,
played nearly 30 minutes a game.
Didn't end the year particularly well,
struggled in the conference tournament,
struggled in the NCAA tournament,
probably why he's leaving,
kind of fell out of favor with the coaching staff.
It felt like, but a good player showed a lot of promise
on a very solid Kansas J-Hawks team.
And he's got three years of eligibility left.
And I mentioned the stats 8.6 gives you
a little bit defensively.
He can also step out and hit some 3s too.
6'11, this is not like Modus Vocatitis
where it's two of the same guys.
This is a dude who could step out and hit some 3s as well.
I think he'd be a great fit
next to Modus Vocatitis on this Texas team.
Next year, a lot of other teams are going to be in the mix
as we'll be the case with a bunch of these guys
that we talk about, but that's an early name to know.
And a guy who is near the top of my wish list,
slash bigboard for Texas basketball.
We'll be talking way more portal throughout the course
of the week and in the coming weeks as well.
But we're out of time on today's show.
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