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Coach like it the rest of the year.

F*ck yes.

For whatever it's worth (and I'm sure the audio will be out at some point), Sark sounded pissed— not annoyed. Just pissed off.

Don't embarass me on the road again Steve.

Honestly, I'd have to go back and listen. He was asked something about the CFP and Bobby Petrino's offense, but I was trying to get the transcription of his statement posted, so I wasn't paying attention.

I'm told Steve Sarkisian had a rather similar, and more emphatic, message with the team after practice today. Along the lines of – I am here, and not going anywhere.

Yeah he is gone sound the alarm

Did he talk about anything else?

I published his statement here:

Before he addressed his football team’s upcoming home game against Arkansas, Steve Sarkisian addressed his coaching future at the University of Texas. Less than a month after Diana Russini of "The Athletic" reported that Sarkisian’s camp had expressed interest on his behalf in potential NFL head coaching openings, ESPN college football analyst Desmond Howard said in a video posted on social media that Sarkisian and the Longhorns could be headed toward a mutual parting of ways. The following is Sarkisian’s statement on the rumors surrounding his job, in its entirety: “I’d like to comment on something before I get into our team, something that has been bothering me now over the past few weeks, and that is people reporting that — or insinuating that — there’s a possibility I could leave the University of Texas. And that is absolutely false and untrue. I’m not going anywhere. Never do I do this because I never want to be a distraction, so I never address these things. But, at the point now, I feel like that it’s important that I do do this because it’s important for our team, it’s important for our university. I’ve had no discussions — not with my agent, not with the university, not with any other school, not with any NFL team — about ever going anywhere else. I came here to win championships. I’ve got two kids enrolled at the University of Texas, one in law school and one on our team. I’ve got a third that, hopefully, decides to enroll at the University of Texas next fall, and my wife and I just had our son here in Austin. This is our home. We came here to win championships. We’ve built a damn-good football program over the five years we’ve been here. We’ve been to two College Football Playoffs, we won a Big 12 championship, we went to the SEC Championship Game in Year 1, we’ve had 23 players drafted the last two years, which is more than any other school in the country and our team GPA is at an all-time high. So, can we please stop putting things out there that you have absolutely zero evidence on? And then, can we please stop retweeting, putting it back out there as if it’s true, as if it’s the gospel? It is not true. If you have a question about my future, call me or call Chris Del Conte — our athletic director — and we can set the record straight for you ... [inaudible comment] so, moving forward, when some Joe Blow decides to put something on social media out there, we all don’t run with it like it’s the gospel. Can we all agree on that on this call? And, if you have a question about my future with the University of Texas, ask me on one of these calls, ask Chris Del Conte — he’ll be more than happy to take your call — so that we can set the record straight, so that we can focus on our football team, which is really what we should be doing. Everybody good with that?” Texas (7-3, 4-2 SEC), which came in at No. 17 by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee in Tuesday’s rankings reveal, will look to rebound from a 35-10 road loss to Georgia when the Razorbacks visit Austin for the first time since 2008. The Longhorns and Arkansas (2-8, 0-6) will kick off at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at 2:30 p.m. on ABC. View full news story

Despite some being frustrated with recent results, this is the best outcome for the program in my opinion. One down year does not constitute a need for firing or running him off…

Sark unloads on rumors about him leaving Texas. He is extremely pissed off.

Is he mean and nasty? 😂 sounds weird

Can he be a short yardage back too?

I thought a lot about that, too. I tried to remove recency bias of his last few years where the team got soft. If I look at the number of NFL players that were on the early to mid 2000s teams, the recruiting was good but those players who stuck around 3 or 4 years got better and played on Sundays.

Well, can people stop wiith the BS rumors already?

Player Development under Mack Brown would not be a B+ in my opinion. lower

Hey you leave my coach Franklin 2.0 alone

I have been hearing and thinking about the travels of Lane's family and he has been around a bit. He has Ole Miss working and is the son of a legendary coach in Monte. Here begins what I do not understand. Why is he the top candidate for so many searches? He has a longer history that is neutral or bad- Tenn, USC, the Raiders to name a few.... But he was a Saban rehab project (so is Sark, but when we hired him there were not schools and NFL teams clamoring for him, although Lane had 2 stops as a HC between the 2 events) Here is where that thinking took me- coach rankings based on some categories. These are my impressions and and totally subject to my biases (which I lay out some below). But it also made me think about James Franklin and Sark. Penn St knew who Franklin was. I do not know if there is someone ready to be better. So I decided to rank some known current coaches and some Championship winners to try to keep in context Sark is a great coach (I am no Sark hater, so I continue to root for him) and the number of truly great coaches that are proven and can repeat success is small. I welcome banter/ comments/ feedback or any challenge on how I rated them. My ultimate conclusion was: I would not want to be looking for a coach right now. Some assumptions: 1) Some of these coaches have long runways and some are short. I am not giving a lot of benefit of the doubt to the unproven side 2) I watch Texas religiously, and then the SEC some, and don't watch much from other conferences 3) These are gut reactions and may be a little nuanced by coordinators, schedules, etc, and are my interpretation on how i would rank them in a coaching search. (I don't claim to be right- for instance if Kirby has had more top 5 defenses than Venables) Here is my ranking list:

Can’t fault the man for looking to get a pay day and get some film on a bigger stage for the draft

I’m not sure if this is a tom Herman or Steve Sarkisian saying anymore? Maybe it’s just an offensive genius saying?

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