BREAKING:
#Alabama
OC Steve Sarkisian is expected to be named the new coach at
#Texas
, replacing Tom Herman, who was fired Saturday, multiple sources told Horns247.
#Texas
#Longhorns
' athletic director Chris Del Conte said
#UT
football will not have alternate uniforms. "If God wanted multicolored sunsets, He'd have made them purple and green. But He didn't. They're burnt orange. ... It's not old. It's not stuffy. It's Texas. It's the best."
BREAKING: Rodney Terry, who led
#Texas
to a Big 12 tourney title and Elite 8 after taking over for dismissed head coach Chris Beard, will be offered the
#Longhorns
’ head-coaching position, a high-level university source told
@Horns247
Sunday night.
#Texas
#Longhorns
' athletic director Chris Del Conte said he plans for the Texas-OU football game to remain at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas during the State Fair and has asked the SEC for the game to be at 2:30 pm CT (beginning in 2024).
BREAKING:
#Texas
#Longhorns
' junior WR Adonai Mitchell is expected to announce he's entering the NFL Draft after catching 11 TD passes, including a TD reception in his fifth straight
@CFBPlayoff
game.
BREAKING:
#Texas
' flirtation with three-time national championship coach Urban Meyer appears to have come to an end, a university source told Horns247.
.
#Longhorns
and
#Sooners
expected to renew their contract with the State Fair of Texas, giving the
#SEC
two of the greatest neutral site rivalry games in college football (along with Georgia-Florida, the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party).
.
Asked if he’s made a decision on whether to return to
#Texas
next year or enter the 2024 NFL Draft,
#Longhorns
QB Quinn Ewers said, “There's no decision. I’m just trying to win a national championship.”
#Washington
QB Michael Penix Jr. on facing
#Texas
' defensive line anchored by 2023 Outland Trophy winner
@TvondreSweat
and
#Big12
D-Lineman OTY
@ByronMurphyII
: "They play good ball, but I wouldn't say we're playing the 49ers' D-line or the Eagles' D-line, so we'll be good."
Texas' first season in the
#SEC
in 2024 will include road games at Texas A&M and
#Arkansas
in addition to UT's annual meeting with
#OU
in the Cotton Bowl and will also feature a home game against
#Georgia
, sources close to the situation told
@Horns247
.
BREAKING:
#Texas
S Derek Williams will miss the first half of the Sugar Bowl against
#Washington
after an appeal of Williams' targeting ejection from the second half of the Big 12 title game was denied, a source close to the situation told
@Horns247
.
#Texas
#Longhorns
coach Shaka Smart never went to see in-state recruits Jarrett Culver of Lubbock Coronado (
#TexasTech
) nor Carsen Edwards of Atascocita (
#Purdue
) after a
#UT
assistant coach pleaded with him to go see both.
#BadDecision
#Texas
and Steve Sarkisian are “close” to finalizing a contract extension and raise, a source involved in the process told
@Horns247
. The
#Longhorns
won the Big 12 and reached their first CFP in 2023.
This College Football Playoff committee values losses more than wins, loves
#Oregon
QB Bo Nix's completion percentage and is on the verge of setting some dangerous precedents (like failing to reward tough non-conference scheduling).
BREAKING: Texas
#Longhorns
cornerback Ryan Watts will forego an extra year of eligibility to enter the 2024 NFL Draft, a source close to the situation tells
@Horns247
.
A source close to the situation said the buyout money for
#Texas
and
#Oklahoma
to leave the
#Big12
before 2025 could come from the roughly $160 million
#UT
is still owed by ESPN for the final 10 years of ESPN's 20-yr, $300 million contract with Texas for the Longhorn Network.
Steve Sarkisian: "When you've gone through what I've been through in the public eye, I don't want to say you're humbled, but you do the soul-searching and you do the work to try to be the best version of Steve Sarkisian every day. I've grown a lot from a maturity standpoint."
One Big 12 official told me tonight’s decision “was the result of blocking outside noise and all the pressures and listening to facts and making the decision for the right reasons.” ...
When asked to rate
#Baylor
as a difficult place to play,
#Texas
#Longhorns
' senior CB Josh Thompson rated it a "3" (out of 10) ... added that
#IowaState
has been the most difficult place he's played.
22 Days to the Sugar Bowl: The official
#Texas
#Longhorns
Sugar Bowl tailgate in New Orleans will be - where else? - at Manning's Sports Bar and Grill, named after legendary Saints QB Archie Manning, the grandfather of Texas freshman QB Arch Manning.
Thanks to
#TexasTech
coach Joey McGuire and
#Big12
commissioner Brett Yormark jabbing at
#Texas
at a Lubbock speaking event last August, Steve Sarkisian will have more bulletin board material for his 10-1
#Longhorns
heading into Friday's clash with
#Tech
.
Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte says he'll meet with
#Texas
#Longhorns
football coach Steve Sarkisian soon - contract extension and raise likely to be part of the discussion.
After a 2-2 start to the season, No. 5
#Texas
wasn't expected to defend its volleyball national title.
But on Sunday in a dominating 3-0 victory over No. 1 Nebraska, that's exactly what the
#Longhorns
did - claiming back-to-back national championships.
#Texas
is the only
#Big12
team to lose (6-1) in the NCAA tourney, and 6 years in, Shaka Smart has still failed to win a single NCAA tournament game with the
#Longhorns
.
#Texas
#Longhorns
RB coach Tashard Choice compares rising junior
@JaydonBlue23
to
#Lions
rookie Pro Bowl RB Jahmyr Gibbs.
That's reason enough for Longhorn Nation to see Blue as a player to be excited about heading into 2024.
BREAKING: Sources tell that
#Texas
#Longhorns
' running back Jonathon Brooks, who became a 1,000-yard rusher after starting the season as a backup, will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL.
Quinn Ewers said bulletin board material from ISU OG Jarrod Hufford was a definite rallying point for Texas: “We were gonna let our pads do the talking, but we definitely brought some light to their darkness.”
SNAP JUDGMENTS: No. 7
#Texas
overcomes some adversity by showing off some five-star culture to go along with the
#Longhorns
' five-star talent in a 26-16 win at
#IowaState
, improving to 10-1 with one to play (at home Friday against
#TexasTech
).
#Texas
#Longhorns
AD
@_delconte
introduces Bob Bowman, who just led
#ArizonaState
to the men’s swimming and diving national title and who coached Olympic star Michael Phelps, as the successor to 15-time national title-winning coach Eddie Reese.
Sarkisian: "With age comes maturity. I accepted the job at Washington at 33. When you're a young head coach, you try to tackle a bunch of it on your own. Now, having worked in the NFL, too, you value the importance of your staff and allowing them to do what they do."
Texas is expected to hire Miami Dolphins assistant defensive line coach Kenny Baker as its new defensive line coach, sources tell
@247sports
.
Baker, one of the nation’s top up-and-coming DL coaches, was the defensive line coach at Western Kentucky before joining the Dolphins.…
NEW: In hiring
#Dolphins
assistant DL coach Kenny Baker,
#Texas
coach Steve Sarkisian is getting a rising star known as "an elite teacher and developer of talent" with energy to burn on the recruiting trail, sources told 247Sports' Matt Zenitz and myself.
After helping lead
#Texas
to a 35-6 victory over
#BYU
, redshirt freshman quarterback Maalik Murphy confirmed that he never considered leaving the 40 Acres for an NIL offer from another school, saying, "I'm all-in Longhorns."
Apologies and good luck to
#Georgia
fans trying to find a hotel in Austin the weekend of Oct. 19, which is also when
@f1
is going on at
@COTA
(the F1 attendance in Austin in 2023 was 432,000 for the weekend).
I'm hearing there should be an official announcement today from
#Texas
regarding the hiring of
#Alabama
OC Steve Sarkisian as the
#Longhorns
' next head coach. More at
@Horns247
...
#Texas
#Longhorns
RB
@Bijan5Robinson
said Steve Sarkisian understood his decision to skip the Alamo Bowl: "It was a tough decision, but Sark understood that because of the risk of injury, it was time to wrap it up."
It was one of the coolest, heart-warming and thoughtful moments of championship weekend.
#Texas
coach Steve Sarkisian made sure a season-ending knee injury didn't keep 1,000-yard rusher Jonathon Brooks out of the
#Longhorns
'
#Big12
title game victory.
I'm told Maalik Murphy "handled it the right way" and would’ve been allowed to be with
#Texas
for the Sugar Bowl, but a UT source told Horns247, “He’s not staying for the playoffs.”
When
#Texas
and
#OU
get together at the State Fair of Texas every October in the greatest gameday atmosphere in sports - it's the RED RIVER SHOOTOUT!! ... no matter what corporate sponsors trying to make you sound like Elmer Fudd say.
Lost in the drama of a 34-30 loss to
#Oklahoma
was
#Longhorns
' QB Quinn Ewers overcoming three turnovers by completing 26 of his last 28 passes, including a school-record 19 straight spanning six separate drives.
BREAKING: 5⭐️ OT Brandon Baker has committed to Texas 🏈
The Mater Dei (CA.) product chose the Longhorns over Florida State, Oregon, Ohio State and Nebraska.
MORE:
#Texas
#Longhorns
coach Steve Sarkisian on T'Vondre Sweat and Byron Murphy, the two highest-rated interior DL in FBS, according to
@PFF
: "Quite frankly, I’m hopeful one of them is the Big 12 defensive player of the year and the other is the Big 12 defensive lineman of the year."
#Texas
QB Casey Thompson has joined fellow
#Longhorns
' redshirt freshman QB Cameron Rising in entering his name in the new NCAA transfer portal to explore options, a source told .
.
#Texas
president Jay Hartzell, when asked by a state senator if the money
#UT
is owed for the Longhorn Network could be used for Texas and OU's exit fees: "I grew up in Oklahoma, but I'm not going to pay for their exit fees."
Steve Sarkisian was part of Nick Saban's last national title at
#Alabama
in 2020 and is also the last coach to beat Saban in Tuscaloosa.
#Texas
officials have indicated
@CoachSark
is due to get a contract extension/raise after
#Big12
title win/1st CFP.