With 19 official visitors on campus this weekend and with less than three weeks remaining until the end of the 2016 recruiting cycle, the next 48 hours will be a make-or-break time for Charlie Strong and the Texas Longhorns.

Strong and his assistants have to be able to close deals, or make the kind of impression that will carry forward until the recruits who are getting their last look at Texas this weekend are ready to pull the trigger on a decision.

With that said, it’s a calculated risk to have this many recruits on campus at one time. The risk of alienating a recruit by not being able to spend enough time with them seems like it could potentially be high.

Strong is going to be stretched thin in terms of how he spends his time. He can’t be in multiple places at once, and the same goes for his assistants like defensive line Brick Haley who has several key recruits on his target board in town.

That’s why the strongest voices on the Forty Acres won’t be Strong or any of his assistants. The recruits are going to wind up spending most of their time in Austin with their player hosts, making that group the biggest potential sellers on campus.

They’re the biggest best advocates of the product Strong is trying to produce. Thankfully, they’re armed with a strong message and a lot of positives to sell.

Want playing time?

Texas played 17 of its 23 signees from the 2015 class and nine true freshmen combined for 62 starts on the season. Malik Jefferson was on Twitter earlier Friday showing off the trophy he earned for being named Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year:

Want to be developed?

Just about all of the freshmen look drastically different than they did a year ago. Pat Moorer is going to sell the strength program, but there’s nobody better to talk about how good the staff is at building athletes like the players who have been built themselves.

Want to win?

This is where the message from the players is the most powerful tool Strong has in his arsenal, one he didn’t have at this time last year. The young players currently on campus knocked off a pair of Top 12 teams during the 2015 season and, more importantly, they believe in Strong’s vision for the program and have bought into the message from the top down.

Strong’s young players are his guys and have shown through their words and actions that they have his back and believe wholeheartedly in his approach. That can be reflected tangibly if they’re able to put a positive spin on where Texas is now and sell where the Longhorns are headed under the current regime by how many recruits from this weekend wind up putting pen to paper in favor of the Longhorns.

If that happens to the degree it needs to for Texas to finish the 2016 class with a bang a lot of the players who eventually sign on the dotted line will likely point to what they were told this weekend as to what made the biggest difference in the end.

The Daily is a daily column from Horns247 senior writer Jeff Howe where he provides his thoughts on current events related to the Texas Longhorns, specifically the football program. He can be reached via email (jeffwhowe@gmail.com), on Twitter (@JeffHowe247) or on the Horns247 'The Flagship' message board.