AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas coach Steve Sarkisian knows what to expect when President Donald Trump attends Saturday’s game at Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Apart from the extra security measures, Sarkisian is anticipating problems communicating with his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing that you have to be aware of when the president goes to any game is that any time he enters the stadium, leaves the stadium or changes locations within the stadium, they cut all communication,\u201d Sarkisian said during a Zoom call on Thursday. \u201cSo they cut your headsets. They cut the headsets to coaches. They cut headsets for coach-to-player communication. So you have to have a plan for that, if and when it happens, and you get no warning. It just gets cut out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Southeastern Conference showdown between the top-ranked Longhorns and the No. 14 Vols will be Texas quarterback Arch Manning\u2019s first game at Neyland Stadium, where his uncle Peyton starred for Tennessee.<\/p>\n
Trump’s attendance will add another layer of intrigue, something Sarkisian has previous experience with. He was as Alabama\u2019s offensive coordinator when Trump attended a game against LSU during the president’s first term in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to have a plan to adjust if and when he comes in the middle of the first quarter, leaves in the fourth quarter, or decides he\u2019s got to use the restroom, whatever that looks like,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be prepared to have no communication for a short amount of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas coach Steve Sarkisian knows what to expect when President Donald Trump attends Saturday’s game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,298,261,991],"class_list":["post-447148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college","tag-college-football","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447148","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=447148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}