Charlie Strong talks about the sense of urgency he and the Longhorns are feeling heading into the 2016 season. (1:13)

DALLAS -- At the end of his 90-minute interview sessions to wrap up Big 12 media days on Tuesday afternoon, Texas offensive lineman Kent Perkins was approached with a parting question.

How nice would it be to experience an offseason without quarterback questions?

"Oh, I get quarterback questions all the time," Perkins said. "There were a lot of them today. From every single angle. I had three guys ask the same exact question in a row."

Perkins tries to kindly answer those with the exact same answers he’s become well-trained to provide during his college career: All of our guys are competing. They all have the ability. We believe in all of them.

In the seven years since Colt McCoy graduated, Texas has brought a total of two quarterbacks to Big 12 media days. Garrett Gilbert represented the team before the 5-7 fiasco of 2010. And David Ash attended in 2013, as an established and trusted returning starter. His season and career were cut short by concussions soon after.

So, sure, tight end Caleb Bluiett will grin when asked if he’d enjoy a summer devoid of doubt about Texas' quarterback situation.

"That’s for sure. That’s for sure," he said. "I’ve been getting asked since the kid stepped on campus."

An enterprising reporter could’ve jumped in there and asked, "Which kid?!?" But this is sort of the annual routine in the post-Colt era. There is always a new kid, and he’s always the new fan favorite, and he’s always ready to take the job and lead the Longhorns to glory.

Freshman Tyrone Swoopes was going to surpass Case McCoy. And redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard was going to beat out Swoopes. And now freshman Shane Buechele is supposed to be better than both of them.

Not that coach Charlie Strong is ready to anoint Buechele as his starting quarterback. Not yet. Even if some of the stuff Strong said Tuesday offered blatant hints about the plan he has coming together.

Consider Strong’s reply when asked if, to win the Big 12, Texas needs one of its best players to be its quarterback:

"To win this league, he needs to make sure he can manage and the other players around him need to play great. Because you look at it, he’s going to be young, but he’s got two big ol' running backs running behind him, he’s got a wide receiver outside that, if he throws it up, John Burt can go get it for him. And the offensive line needs to protect him."

Aha. "He’s going to be young." Swoopes, a senior, is not the young candidate. Heard, a third-year guy, isn’t either.

For what it’s worth, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury -- the Big 12’s foremost expert on developing great quarterbacks -- did offer an endorsement for Buechele this week.

"That young kid's gonna be good," Kingsbury said. "We were the first team to offer him. We had him in camp. Really liked the way he carried himself. Really quick release, really accurate. Not the biggest kid, but you could tell -- kind of like Patrick [Mahomes] -- he has that background, has that pedigree and has that 'it' factor."

If Kingsbury is right, an awful lot of orange-blooded people will be deliriously happy. Maybe we’ll even get to chat with Buechele at the 2018 or 2019 media days. If not, maybe it will be the next young kid.

Anyway, back to that hint. A reporter countered with the obvious follow-up: Does Texas have a quarterback who can win the league if everything goes right?

Strong has definitely heard that one before. He didn’t have an answer on Tuesday.

"I’ve got a quarterback right now that ... when I get into preseason camp, I’ll answer that question," Strong said.