Nansen<\/a>, 52, was arrested Wednesday night after officers responded to a three-vehicle wreck about 9 p.m. Nansen was one of the drivers and officers observed \u201cmultiple clues of impairment\u201d in standard field sobriety tests, police said, without providing details.<\/p>\nThe short description of the arrest did not mention whether Nansen submitted to a breath test. It also not detail whether Nansen or another driver was at fault in the crash.<\/p>\n
Sarkisian said Nansen was not at practice Thursday ahead of Saturday night’s home game against UTSA. Nansen coaches inside linebackers and is co-defensive coordinator. He has been on the Texas staff since 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re obviously disappointed, but that’s all I really have on it at this time,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n
The arrest is the latest problem for Texas after its big come-from-behind 24-23 win over the Buckeyes that boosted Texas from No. 4 to No. 1.<\/p>\n
Star quarterback Arch Manning was forced to apologize<\/a> after publicly joking about an AI-generated video that depicted Sarkisian slapping ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe. That video, and other fake clips, have surfaced after a brief and testy exchange between Sarkisian and Rowe after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas assistant coach arrested on DWI charge in latest distraction for No. 1 Longhorns AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3230,1680,132,4921,315,152091,261,268,3060,14374,106218,111489,87429,12760,152092,152089,2470,61520,152095,11774,152090,2817,35423,91272,152093,3231,27,152097,760,29,28,152096,152094,16960,3439,2459],"class_list":["post-439136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arch-manning","tag-arrest","tag-austin","tag-austin-police","tag-big-12","tag-co-defensive-coordinator","tag-college-football","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-driving-while-intoxicated","tag-dwi-charge","tag-field-sobriety-tests","tag-holly-rowe","tag-home-game","tag-inside-linebackers","tag-johnny-nansen","tag-longhorns","tag-misdemeanor","tag-nansen","tag-no","tag-no-1-longhorns","tag-officer","tag-sarkisian","tag-shnd","tag-sideline-return","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas","tag-texas-assistant-coach","tag-texas-football","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-staff","tag-three-vehicle-wreck","tag-thursday","tag-utsa","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439136","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=439136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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