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UT's success hinges on Ash's injury-prone body

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AUSTIN - Charlie Strong changed the culture. With swiftness and fanfare, he trimmed the roster and rewrote the rulebook. He overhauled practice and removed off-campus living privileges. He ripped out the smoothie bar and peeled off the helmet decals.

What the new football coach at the University of Texas couldn't change, however, was a simple, unmistakable truth. No matter how much discipline Strong could mete out or how much toughness he could instill in eight months, the Longhorns' hopes for success in his first season still fall inordinately on the shoulders of one man.

Quarterback David Ash knows this. If he didn't before a candid meeting this summer with Strong's top offensive assistant, Shawn Watson, he does now.

"As you go, our team goes," Watson told Ash. "If you're right, we're right."

Read more: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/longhorns/article/UT-s-success-hinges-on-Ash-s-injury-prone-body-5702110.php#/0

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