Like he had weeks earlier<\/a>, the Texas coach refuted any rumors that he was looking to leave Texas. He started the call by unequivocally stating how he wanted to be at Texas and had no desire to leave.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Here is his statement in full:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to comment on something before I get into our team, something that has been bothering me now the past few weeks,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cAnd that is people reporting that, or insinuating that there is a possibility I could leave the University of Texas. And that is absolutely false and untrue.”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not going anywhere. Never do I do this because I never want to be a distraction, so I never address these things, but at this point now, I feel like it is important that I do do this because it\u2019s important for our team, it\u2019s important for our university. I\u2019ve had no discussions, not with my agent, not with the university not with any other school, not with any NFL team about ever going anywhere else. I came here to win championships. I\u2019ve got two kids enrolled at the University of Texas \u2014 one in law school and one on our team. I\u2019ve got a third that hopefully decides to enroll at the University of Texas next fall and my wife and I just had our son here in Austin.”<\/p>\n
“This is our home. We came here to win championships. We\u2019ve built a damn good football program over the five years we\u2019ve been here. We\u2019ve been to two College Football Playoffs, we\u2019ve won a Big 12 championship, we went to the SEC championship game in Year 1, we\u2019ve had 23 players drafted the last two years, which is more than any other school in the country and our team GPA is at an all-time high.”<\/p>\n
“So can we please stop putting things out there that you have absolutely zero evidence on and then can we please stop retweeting, putting it back out there as if it\u2019s true as if it\u2019s the gospel. It is not true. If you have a question about my future, call me or call Chris Del Conte, our athletic director, and we can set the record straight for you. So everybody will understand, so moving forward when some Joe Blow decides to put something on social media out there, we all don\u2019t run with it like it\u2019s the gospel. Can we all agree on that on this call? And if you have a question about my future with the University of Texas, ask me on one of these calls, ask Chris Del Conte, he\u2019ll be more than happy to take your call, so that we can set the record straight so that we can focus on our football team which is really what we should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarkisian\u2019s teleconference came two days after ESPN analyst and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard posted a video to social media where he posited that Sarkisian could leave Texas in a \u201cmutual\u201d decision at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Texas, the No. 1 team in the preseason AP Top 25, lost to Georgia in Week 12 to drop to 7-3 overall and were ranked No. 17 in Tuesday night\u2019s College Football Playoff rankings.<\/p>\n
In late October, Sarkisian\u2019s agents Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz issued a statement saying that Sarkisian had not had communication with NFL teams. The statement came after a note in an Athletic column that said reps for Sarkisian \u201chave let NFL decision-makers know he would be interested in potential head-coaching openings.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Texas beat Mississippi State in overtime the day of that report. After the game, Sarkisian said that \u201cit really pisses me off that one person can make a report that, in our, the entire media sports world runs with as factual.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Longhorns are the third college team Sarkisian has coached. He replaced Tom Herman after the 2020 season and Texas has posted four consecutive winning seasons after it was 5-7 in 2021 and made the four-team College Football Playoff in 2023 and the 12-team playoff in 2024. Overall, Texas is 45-20 in his time at the school and faces Arkansas on Saturday before hosting undefeated Texas A&M on Black Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian had something he wanted to get off his chest at the start of his weekly media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31075,6564,3231,27,29,28,4100],"class_list":["post-57419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chris-del-conte","tag-college-football-playoffs","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419","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=57419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}