AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 At the annual Town Hall meeting at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, athletics director Chris Del Conte revealed that the football program will hold a scrimmage to end spring practice on April 18 in concert with a Fan Day.<\/p>\n
Del Conte did not reveal specific details about the format of the scrimmage, which may be different than the annual Orange-White game in the past.<\/p>\n
Last year, Texas only held a Fan Day as head coach Steve Sarkisian opted against the annual spring-ending scrimmage because of the physical demands of playing in a conference championship game and three College Football Playoff games.<\/p>\n
Sarkisian also cited the need for development with a team that Del Conte said averaged 18.5 years old in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe development that\u2019s needed for these guys to get ready for the fall is a little bit different than it used to be, so our approach is going to be a little bit more NFL-driven, more of an OTA style early on, and as we grow into more of the scrimmage formats in the second half of spring ball, I just don\u2019t know if rolling the ball out and playing a game if we only get 15 practices is the best for us to maximize the opportunities that we get,\u201d Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Del Conte also revealed that the new football practice facility adjacent to the football stadium and the Moody Center is expected to be completed this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 At the annual Town Hall meeting at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, athletics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,41661],"class_list":{"0":"post-450221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas-longhorns-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}