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Pete Kwiatkowski can't dodge credit for UT's defense forever
Over four seasons, defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski has transformed the Texas Longhorns into the nation's elite defense - and still managed to stay in the background.
Pete Kwiatkowski, whose friends describe him as a movie buff and history nerd, compares the Texas Longhorns season to “Saving Private Ryan.”
We all know how that movie starts, he says. From the opening scene - the landing at Omaha Beach - the U.S. Army ‘is in it.’ This Texas team has been in the trenches week in and week out of the longest college football season ever. And just like those soldiers who followed orders even when they didn’t always agree with the mission to save Private Ryan, Kwiatkowski’s troops have brought the same work ethic every day for the last five months.
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