There is pressure on Texas coach Charlie Strong to produce entering his third season with the Longhorns.

Strong has compiled an 11-14 record thus far, and he appeared on ESPN's "First Take" Tuesday morning to discuss how he envisions the team will improve in 2016.

"With the players that we're getting into the program now, they're going to add the depth that we need," Strong said during the appearance.

The depth, Strong says, will come from the strength of Texas' past two recruiting classes. The Longhorns have acquired consecutive top-10 recruiting classes, according to the 247Sports Composite, after ranking 16th nationally in 2014, Strong's first season with Texas.

The state of Texas has always been a fertile recruiting ground, but the perception of the program has suffered due to a drop off in the success witnessed during much of the Mack-Brown era. The Longhorns won 10 or more games every year from 2001-09 under Brown. However, Brown reached nine wins just once in his final five seasons before Strong took over.

Despite beginning his Texas career with two sub-.500 seasons, Strong thinks he is able to relay the value of the program by reaching recruits' parents.

"I don't talk to the recruit, I attack the parents," Strong said. "The parents know what the University of Texas is all about. They see 10 years from now what a Texas degree can do for their son."

Strong believes improvement will come from the depth on the team's offensive and defensive lines. Texas signed 14 linemen, six offensive and eight defensive, in its 2016 recruiting class, including eight four-star players.

"We haven't recruited big guys," Strong said. "Big guys beat up little guys."

The talent is in place, but the challenge now comes in transforming that talent into wins. Another losing season won't go over well in Austin.

"You have to raise the level, and that's what we haven't done," Strong said. "We don't finish games and those things have to change."