Steve Sarkisian on Jonathon Brooks being on the field for the final play: "Jonathon meant a great deal to us. We would not be here today without Jonathon Brooks and what he did for us for a good portion of the season."
Says on Thursday at the end of practice, he put Brooks as…
"Very intentional" - Steve Sarkisian on why Byron Murphy and T'Vondre Sweat were captains today.
"I wanted them to walk to the middle of the field so they could see them. I wanted them to look at 90 and 93, and they showed up."
KOBE BLACK IS A LONGHORN!
The No. 44 overall prospect in the 2024 cycle selects Texas over LSU, Texas A&M, Oregon, and Ohio State!
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Arch Manning: "Obviously there's always rumors, especially nowadays. I haven't looked into transferring at all. I'm just focused on developing and helping this team any way I can and hopefully one day playing for the University of Texas like I've always wanted to."
Steve Sarkisian: "I still say the quote, five-star culture versus five-star players. Well, now we have both. That's a pretty cool thing to be able to say."
MADE 'EM SWEAT!
Texas DT T'Vondre Sweat has won the Outland Trophy, which honors the nation's top interior lineman!
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Texas HC Steve Sarkisian: "First of all, I'll go backwards but the resiliency our team showed in our fourth quarter to find an opportunity to win the game is indicative of the character we have on this team and the men that we have in the locker room. Those guys are fighters,…
Steve Sarkisian: "When I accepted this job... I didn't accept this job just to be a head coach again. I felt like at that point in my career I knew I would be one again. But I took this job because I felt like we could be champions here and we could win championships."
MITCHELL MOVING TO AUSTIN —
Sources: Recent Georgia WR transfer AD MItchell committed to Texas tonight, expected to enroll soon.
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Arch Manning: "I think Austin, for me, was a good spot just because I can kind of blend in a little bit more in a big city rather than in Oxford, or Athens, or Tuscaloosa where football is so centered. Texas, that's a place I would want to go to college if I wasn't playing…
RYAN WINGO IS A HORN!
The 5️⃣⭐ wide receiver from St. Louis (Mo.) University High has committed to Texas, choosing the Longhorns over Missouri!
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Maalik Murphy on throwing it a lot in the early part of the game: “It gave me a lot of faith in Coach. He believed in me. If he’s able to script that many openers as passes for me in my first start, that tells me something. He’s not letting off the gas. He believes in me. That…
Steve Sarkisian on Byron Sweat and T'Vondre Murphy: "I don't know why you'd ever call them out. It'd be the last thing I would do if I was getting ready to play us but that was their choice to call them out and to call out our culture, quite frankly. That's how we took it."
Arch Manning: "There were a lot of tough days, I'm not going to lie. I was never a backup in high school, so there are some days when you graduate early and you're alone in your dorm room. You're like, it's just another day of fighting for a third-string job. My family, they're…
TYANTHONY FLIPS TO TEXAS!
The Longhorns flipped Jasper (Texas) LB Tyanthony Smith, adding to their 2024 class at the expense of rival Texas A&M!
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Sarkisian says he hopes his story is able to inspire others.
"We don't have to stay where we are. We can overcome things and life and there's so much more out there for us to do."
Quinn Ewers: "It's tough, especially losing a close game like this. Even though you take a step back and you look back at the entire season, I'm proud of the way we attacked each week. For us to have the opportunity to even play here, I know the whole team is beyond grateful for…
Steve Sarkisian on helping Jonathon Brooks in the wake of the death of his father: "When you have 120 sons, we're going to have off the field adversity that strikes. Any time death is involved, in Jonathon's case with his father, that's tough. That's traumatic and the biggest…
CALI TO AUSTIN FOR FOUR-STAR —
‘24 Calabasas (Calif.) four-star WR/ATH Aaron Butler commits to Texas at the end of early
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Texas LB Jaylan Ford: "I just told them I was proud of them. Like coach was saying, this whole year we sacrificed a lot in order to build this team the way we wanted it. We went all the way up until the last play. I'm proud of my guys for never giving up."
Sarkisian on why Texas is a playoff team: "I didn't want this win and I didn't want this championship to be about the CFP. This is an accomplishment in and of itself, winning a championship."
"Regardless of what happens, these guys should feel proud... to get us to this point."
Texas HC Steve Sarkisian says Xavier Worthy had negative X-rays.
"He's been dealing with that ankle stuff here for the last month or so, but the beauty of it is we have a lot of time now to get him healthy and get a lot of the other guys healthy."
5️⃣⭐ TRE JOHNSON PICKS TEXAS!
Tre Johnson,
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Q: If Quinn comes back next year, how hard would it be to maybe have to sit a second year?
Arch Manning: "It's never fun being a backup and sitting. Each person's journey is different. I'm going to work hard, not blink an eye, help Quinn be the best quarterback he can be, and…
Steve Sarkisian: "I came here to win a championship. If I can get one, I want to get two. I'm borderline obsessed with it at this point. I know what it tasted like last year. I know how close we were, and I couldn't wait to get back. Hopefully that's what our team really starts…
The Texas Longhorns are heading to the Sugar Bowl!
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Rodney Terry: "Quinn was back there picking those guys apart. The offensive line was giving him great protection, but he knew the scouting report like the back of his hand."
"It got to a point to where it really got unfair to be honest."
BILL NORTON TO TEXAS!
The Longhorns make a major addition via the transfer portal at defensive tackle with the former Arizona Wildcat
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Texas HC Rodney Terry shouts out the football team to open his postgame press conference: "I couldn’t be more excited about those guys and the opportunity they have this weekend to bring a Big 12 Championship home in our last season in the Big 12."
Texas HC Steve Sarkisian: "What a cool night for Longhorn nation. Our fans were amazing. What a turnout, the energy they brought for Thanksgiving weekend."