Horns247 Board

Major Applewhite was made available to the media after Thursday evening's scrimmage. Applewhite worked with new Director of Football Operations Patrick Suddes and feels the Longhorns made a good hire.

"He's been around the draft process and was heavily involved in player personnel at Alabama. He's been through quite a few guys in terms of evaluating personnel. He's been around that system of evaluating and recruiting players, and does a good job and works hard."

Applewhite then went a little further into what made Suddes a good choice.

"No. 1 he works hard. When the coaches are coaches you don't get to act like a coach, you go recruit. You're at the computer sitting working on the internet, Web sites and all of that. He's good at that. He's good about maintaining communication with high school coaches, working camps and clinics."

Running clinics and camps is going to be a big part of Suddes' job. From that standpoint Applewhite has first-hand experience how good Suddes is in both areas.

"Alabama has one of the best clinics in the country and he did a great job with that. He does a good job of getting recruits camps because Tuscaloosa is a hard place to get to. He'll be able to implement that system because he's been around it for so long, and we've got good coaches here who know how evaluate and recruit players."

With the personnel department expected to expand, Applewhite thinks bigger is better when it comes to Texas maximizing it's hires.

"It's man-power. The more people you can get the better job you can do. Now that we've got a bigger department we can push more things to that department and take work off of not only football coaches, but the secretaries and the football operations people."