thereby obstructing his career and future.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The losses keep coming for Charlie Strong, no matter what promises were made in the past.For the third year in a row, Strongs Texas Longhorns have lost at least five games, rekindling questions of whether the program has improved enough for him to earn a fourth year and another $5 million, or if the losing is just too much for one of the nations blue-blood schools to stomach.I look at how were playing. I dont ever make excuses. There are no excuses, Strong said Monday. The losses are mounting. Theres games we should win and we had our opportunity.Rewind to November 2014, when the Longhorns were 6-5 in Strongs first season and he boldly predicted that five losses will never happen in this program again. Texas finished that year 6-7, then went 5-7 and missed the postseason in 2015.The dreaded five-loss threshold was crossed again over the weekend with a 24-20 home loss to No. 10 West Virginia, when the Longhorns never led and couldnt win despite forcing four turnovers. Texas (5-5, 3-4 Big 12) still isnt bowl eligible with two games left at Kansas on Saturday and at home against TCU the Friday after Thanksgiving.Strong was asked how he would sell that his team is making progress if he were in a job evaluation.You still have a football team thats still competing, still playing hard. Thats what you like to see happening, Strong said.There are tangible improvements he could have noted.Texas has two wins over top 10 opponents Notre Dame and Baylor, even though neither program is anywhere near that lofty status any more. The offense under first-year coordinator Sterlin Gilbert and led by powerhouse running back DOnta Foreman, who averages 178 yards per game, is a complete turnaround from the previous two seasons. Other than Foreman, Texas best players have been sophomores and freshmen, including quarterback Shane Buechele, giving whoever coaches Texas in 2017 a bright future.Were a good team, Buechele said. Coach always says our record doesnt define us ... We can beat anybody.Even a defense that was bad early has improved once Strong took over the play-calling. The Longhorns rank among the best in the nation with 36 sacks.And gone are the blowouts of Strongs first two years, when his teams lost nine games by 18 points or more. Texas is 12 points from 8-2. They are also 12 points from 2-8.In other words, Strong is dancing on a razor-thin difference between dominant and disaster, only to find himself balancing on mediocre.Texas President Greg Fenves and athletic director Mike Perrin have publicly supported Strong all season. Fenves will look carefully at Strongs entire resume to decide if he gets a fourth season on a guaranteed five-year contract.The president will take a long look at it, Strong said. We still have two games left.Getting to a bowl game would be a good step forward, even if its still far short of the leap Texas fans -- and college football -- expected after a thrilling double-overtime win over Notre Dame in the season opener.We have to get to a bowl game, Strong said. Our seniors deserve to get to a bowl game.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 Penguins Jerseys 2020 . The Swede became the first golfer to win the PGA Tours FedEx Cup and European Tours Race to Dubai in the same season. "It is still taking a little time to sink in what Ive achieved this week as was the case when I won the FedEx Cup but then it just kept getting better and better as the days went on and I am sure this will be the same," he said. Stitched Penguins Jerseys . -- Its been a long road back for Sean Bergenheim. https://www.cheappenguinsjersey.com/ .ca. Hey Kerry, big fan of yours, just finished reading your book. 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Once he left the program, he was subjected to the NCAAs destructive rules that require transfers to sit for a year before theyre eligible at their next schools, the lawsuit claims.Vassar, who is not playing for any basketball team this season, and his attorneys seek immediate eligibility for all transfers.We do not believe this claim has any legal merit, Al Cubbage, Northwesterns vice president for university relations, said in a statement from the school. We will defend the University vigorously.Vassars class-action lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on Monday, alleges that Northwestern staffers pushed the Chicago native out of the program after the 2014-15 season because they wanted to use his scholarship for another player.The following year -- Vassar remained in school -- his athletic scholarship was converted into an academic scholarship so it would not count toward the NCAAs limit of 13 athletic scholarships per team, according to the lawsuit. Prior to that conversion, his lawyers claim, the school and the NCAA disrupted his career because other schools refused to offer him a scholarship because hed have to miss a year of competition if he transferred.We see this destructive double-standard again and again -- non-student-athletes are free to transfer and are eligible for a new scholarship without waiting a year, Steve Berman, the lawyer representing the class of athletes involved in this lawsuit, said in a statement. Coaches often transfer to the tune of a hefty pay raise. But meanwhile, student-athletess are penalized and forced to sit out a year before they can play elsewhere.dddddddddddd The NCAA needs to level the playing field for these thousands of kids who face undue punishment under its senseless bylaws.The lawsuit claims that Vassar was told he would lose his spot on the team after his freshman season in 2014-15. Team officials, per the lawsuit, then proceeded to deceive Vassar and separate him from his former teammates by putting him on an internship under which he worked as a janitor instead of permitting him to train and play with his teammates when they decided they did not want him to remain with the program, thereby obstructing his career and future. Vassar also claims he was asked if hed take money to leave.On March 30, 2015, Northwestern coach Chris Collins announced Vassars decision to transfer.Johnnie let us know that he has chosen to pursue another university to continue his career, Collins said in a statement then. We support his decision and enjoyed having him as a member of the program this season. He is a talented player with a bright future, and we wish him nothing but the best in everything he does going forward.Vassar then reportedly tweeted that he desired a more integral role with a new program after averaging 3.9 minutes per game his freshman season. He thanked Collins for the opportunity.In the class-action lawsuit filed Monday, however, Vassar claims that he was pressured to a sign a form that said he had volunteered to leave. The suit claims that the NCAAs unfair transfer rules allow coaches to forcefully remove players whenever they want to create an opening for another talent.After his teams victory over Eastern Washington on Monday, Collins told reporters, Well let those things be handled behind closed doors when asked about the lawsuit. ' ' '