The Athletic\u2019s Diana Russini noted Saturday<\/a> that she was \u201ctold that representatives for Texas coach Steve Sarkisian have let NFL decision-makers know that he would be interested in potential head-coaching openings, including the Titans\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Not long after that report, Sarkisian\u2019s agents Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz said in a statement, \u201cAny reports regarding communications on coaching opportunities with NFL teams are patently false and wildly inaccurate. Sark is solely focused on coaching the University of Texas football team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarkisian is in his fifth season with the Longhorns after he was the offensive coordinator at Alabama. Texas is 43-19 in his tenure and won 25 games over the 2023 and 2024 seasons after just 13 wins in Sarkisian\u2019s first two seasons at the school. No. 22 Texas is 5-2 heading into its game at Mississippi State on Saturday night after an overtime win at Kentucky in Week 8.<\/p>\n
Before spending two seasons as the Crimson Tide\u2019s OC, Sarkisian was the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons in 2017 and 2018. He took that job after he served as an analyst for Alabama during the 2016 season.<\/p>\n
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Sarkisian is currently the fifth-highest paid coach in college football behind Georgia\u2019s Kirby Smart, Ohio State\u2019s Ryan Day, USC\u2019s Lincoln Riley and Clemson\u2019s Dabo Swinney. Sarkisian\u2019s 2025 salary is just under $11 million, and he signed a contract extension through the 2031 season in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian\u2019s agents moved quickly to knock down any thought of him moving to the NFL. The Athletic\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2895,15831,15830,15829,15826,2917,3130,80,3129,3231,27,29,28,15828,15827],"class_list":["post-21068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-alabama","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-diana-russini","tag-ed-marynowitz","tag-jimmy-sexton","tag-kentucky","tag-mississippi-state","tag-nfl","tag-ohio-state","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-longhorns","tag-tim-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}