{"id":441717,"date":"2026-09-20T05:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:42:14","slug":"texas-co-dc-johnny-nansen-reinstated-after-one-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441717\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas co-DC Johnny Nansen reinstated after one-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Longhorns co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Johnny Nansen was not coaching on the sidelines for Saturday\u2019s 30-6 win over the UTSA Roadrunners at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium while serving a one-game suspension for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burntorangenation.com\/texas-longhorns-football\/104788\/johnny-nansen-dwi-charge-texas-longhorns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DWI arrest<\/a> on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to head coach Steve Sarkisian, Nansen will rejoin the staff on Sunday morning as Texas prepares to travel to Knoxville to face No. 15 Tennessee next week in the team\u2019s SEC opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cObviously, he\u2019s got some legal issues to work through and we\u2019ll monitor that as we go,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nansen was arrested and charged with misdemeanor DWI on Wednesday evening after officers responded to a three-car crash in the 700 block of S. Capital of Texas Highway around 8:55. Police said that the Texas co-defensive coordinator displayed signs of possible impairment and was arrested after officers conducted field sobriety tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After Nansen was released the next morning on a PR bond, he missed practice before Sarkisian revealed his arrest during his Thursday morning media availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Longhorns co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Johnny Nansen was not coaching on the sidelines for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":["post-441717","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\/441717","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=441717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}