Turmoil continues to surround the Texas Longhorns in the wake of Saturday\u2019s comeback victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes in Austin as head coach Steve Sarkisian revealed during a Thursday media availability that co-defensive coordinator\/linebackers coach Johnny Nansen was arrested and charged with misdemeanor DWI.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe obviously are aware of the of the situation. I\u2019m still gathering facts. I\u2019m still monitoring the situation. We\u2019re obviously disappointed, but that\u2019s all I really have on that at this time,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n
Nansen was arrested after he was involved in a three-car accident on S. Capital Texas Highway just before 9:00 p.m. Central and displayed multiple signs of impairment during a field sobriety test. On Thursday morning, Nansen was released on a PR bond.<\/p>\n
Nansen was not with the team when it practiced on Thursday morning, according to Sarkisian, who was not immediately sure whether the third-year assistant will be on the sidelines with the team when it takes on UTSA at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday at 7 p.m. Central on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n
According to a report from Eric Henry of Horns247<\/a>, analyst Garrett Cox, who joined new defensive coordinator Will Muschamp from Georgia, was working with the linebackers during Thursday\u2019s practice. New NCAA rules allow an unlimited number of on-field coaches during practices and games.<\/p>\n Further reporting on Thursday from Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods indicated that Nansen will serve a one-game suspension on Saturday.<\/p>\n A coaching veteran of nearly 30 years, Nansen has served in a variety of roles under Sarkisian, including as an assistant head coach, running backs coach, and special teams coordinator at Washington from 2009 to 2013 and as a running backs coach and special teams coordinator for two seasons at USC when Sarkisian returned to Los Angeles to lead the Trojans program.<\/p>\n Nansen joined the Texas staff after the 2023 season when Jeff Choate took over as the head coach at Nevada.<\/p>\n Texas has also dealt with controversy surrounding Sarkisian\u2019s abbreviated post-game interview<\/a> with ESPN reporter Holly Rowe and subsequent insensitive comments made by quarterback Arch Manning about an AI video depicting Sarkisian slapping Rowe that required an apology from Manning<\/a> on Tuesday and from Sarkisian on Thursday.<\/p>\n Now the Longhorns will have to respond to the adversity on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cI try to keep the main thing the main thing and focus on what we need to do and that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not lessons learned along the way and I do think that\u2019s important to learn from one another,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut at the same token, this football team has worked really hard for the last eight and a half months to get themselves into this position, and so staying focused on what we need to do when we\u2019re in the building, from game prep to meetings to walkthroughs to practice to individual periods to post-practice work. I think that\u2019s where our focus is.\u201d<\/p>\n This developing story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turmoil continues to surround the Texas Longhorns in the wake of Saturday\u2019s comeback victory over the Ohio State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-439820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439820","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=439820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}