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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Jaydon Blue’s callouses remind him of the work required to toughen that skin.
You don’t develop callouses by soaking your hands in baby oil. Like any day laborer, these Texas Longhorns develop their callouses by putting in sweat equity.
Blue would know. Texas’ junior running back has played for coach Steve Sarkisian long enough to understand what was required to toughen up this program.
“We worked out in 100-plus degrees. We worked out in probably 30 or 40 (degrees) in the winter. That builds callouses,” Blue said Saturday, after contributing to No. 3 Texas’ 143-yard rushing output in a 31-12 destruction of No. 9 Michigan. “We emphasize toughness.”
Used to be, whenever situations called for toughness, the Longhorns wilted. For too long, Texas waded through mediocrity while boasting blue-chip talent and two-star toughness.
College football fans laughed at an underachieving program that was all hat, no cattle.
Sarkisian, in his fourth season, oversees a well-rounded program without obvious flaw.
“We weren’t really trying to come (here) to prove anything,” Sarkisian said nonchalantly, after watching his team push around Michigan for four quarters. “We wanted to play our brand, our style of football.