September 5, 2024 • 9 mins
Steve Sarkisian spoke about how important it is to have an experienced quarterback like Quinn Ewers for Saturday's game against Michigan. Sark also speaks on Jerrick Gibson's performance against Colorado State and if he'll see more snaps against Michigan. Plus, what what was his "OMG" moment as a player or coach.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's hear some more from logrn's head coach, Steve Sarcasian.
This was from this morning for the media availability, and
one of the questions he was asked about was team speed.
He wanted to see the overall team speed athleticism increase
as well as the whole big human thing about adding
size along the line. So he was asked if he
(00:22):
is seeing the ratcheting up of team speed after just
one week this year and after the Paul Camp workouts
that he was aiming for.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, I think it's probably a byproduct of I'd say
probably about three things. You know. One is recruitability, right,
we try to recruit to speed, and so as players
come into our program, I'd like to think they are
either fast or we think they have the ability to
get faster. That's the first part, right, You have what
(00:51):
are we identifying as a as a staff That isn't
that are attributes that are important to us. You guys
have heard me talk at length about big humans upfront,
but speed on the perimeter is is important to us,
and so we try to identify that. Two, I think
the way we train, you know, I think coach Beckton
with his with his background in the track world. The
(01:13):
way that the way that we train our players to run,
to run for speed, to be explosive, to have the
ability to change directions is something that we train to
uh in the summer. And then the third I think
is our nutrition piece. You know, I think that that
our guys really do a good job of eating, right.
I think they've got they've got a great deal of
trust and confidence in our in our nutritionists and our
(01:35):
dietitians of getting their bodies into optimal performance shape so
that they can utilize the god given talents that they
have to go along with the work that they've put
in to play fast.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh. When you were student at Texas, was the I
think it's what it's called what Texas Athletics Nutrition Center.
The tank was that was that finished? Was that underway
when you were a student? I'm not sure actually, Okay,
which answers my second question.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Have you ever eaten now?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah? I hear it's pretty good for them, all right.
I was thinking about that when Sark was talking about
the nutrition value of that deal. All right, when you
get in a game like this, Uh, it never hurts
to have an experienced quarterback in any game. Last weekend
it's Colorado State when they play uelman Row in a
(02:24):
couple of weeks. Obviously, when they play Oklahoma or Georgia.
But he was asked about in a game like this
beginner sectional matchup on the road, how important is it
to have an experienced quarterback like Quinn youers taking the snaps?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's critical. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This is a you know, difficult environment to play in.
You know, I mean, these guys have it won twenty
three in a row at home on accident. You know,
It's it's tough. You know, it's it's a big building,
it can get loud. They've they've got a they've got
a defensive system in place that their players play a
lot of confidence with. They played with a lot of swagger,
you can see that on tape. But having that calming
(03:02):
effect at quarterback, I think is helpful for the other
guys on the field and and for me. Just knowing
that he's going to operate the calls accordingly is comforting
knowing that, hey, when I'm calling something, he's understanding the
intent of the play call. That doesn't mean it's always
going to go that way, but as long as Quinn
understands the intent of the play call. Generally pretty good
(03:24):
things come out of it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's usually asked about the running backs where I'm sarrt
Is and was again, you know Jade Blue and Trey Wisener.
Are you know RB one and RB two if you will,
and they both get carries, But he was asked about
the freshman Jared Gibson actually wound up being the leading
rusher for Texas in the contract. He's got a lot
(03:46):
of carries in the second half after the issue was
long decided, and was asked, did he show enough, did
he do enough to show that maybe he might get
some first half snaps against Michigan?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, I mean, Jared's going to play for us again.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You know, when you're when you're kind of a third
on the depth chart and we've got two really good
players in front of him. It's always trying to find,
you know, that right rhythm for everybody involved, and every
game takes on a life of its own of the
way that it's going in the in the rhythm of
the game and the score and time of possession and
you know, amount of plays ran, so on and so forth.
(04:20):
But we have the utmost confidence in Jeric. I thought
him getting I think it was ten carries last week
or so was big for him and just his own confidence.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So it's you know when when it happens.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't exactly know when he's going to get into
the game, but I know he'll he'll play this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think Sartin mentioned was thirteen freshmen who saw action
in the game, and a lot of other younger fresh
faces might have been Red Chard freshman or sophomores who
hadn't played much but got a chance to go. And
he was asked, does he know how many freshmen they'll
(04:56):
actually take on the trip, because contrary to popularly believe
you can take every single player on your roster on
the road, you can't. So the question was, you know,
does he know how many freshmen he would take with
him to Michigan?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And the other side.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Of this, uh was what do you what do the
coaches say to the players who are not.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Going to make the trip? How do you handle that?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Off the top of my head, I don't, I don't
know exactly. You know, it would take me too long
and I'd waste everybody's time. There's a fair amount of them,
there's a lot of them going on the trip and
if they're going, they probably have a role.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
To to our success, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The guys that don't go, you know, I think, I
think in the end in this in this day and age,
it's like, hey, we're here to develop you to become
the best player that you can be, so that you
can be the best teammate you can be, so that
we can be the best team that we can be.
And we really preach team because if you if you
pour into the team, and you'll get what you deserve
(06:02):
in the back end of it. And everybody's you know,
when freshmen come in, they're always at different stages, you know.
And I love to use the Kelvin Banks example because
in that recruiting class we had signed those seven offensive linemen.
Six of them came midyear and Kelvin didn't come until
the summer. He was number seven that didn't come until
the summer. But he was the one guy that started,
(06:23):
you know, as a as a true freshman, you know,
at left tackle. And so it's rest is history. So
it's not always about you know, when did I get here,
or how many opportunities and reps did I get? It's
what did you do with the opportunity when it presented
it to you, and how do you go about your
business on a on a daily basis. And so that's
what we try to instill in those guys. And like
(06:43):
I said, some guys maybe are a little further along
than others, But that doesn't mean that just because a
guy doesn't go on the trip, you know, maybe he's
not going to play here. No, he's just at a
different stage of his development. And I've seen plenty of
guys not travel early on in their career and end
up playing at the end of the sea or becoming
you know, frontline players for US in year twur and
year three, and so their journeys just just getting underway,
(07:07):
all right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And then one other questions, our good friend Cedar Golden
from the Austin American States been asked this and it
was about the quote unquote o MG moment, the OMG moment?
Did he have an OMG moment as a coach? And
and the reason why you talk about the oh my
gosh moment is going into a place like Michigan, has
(07:28):
he had an OMG moment that even recalls as a
coach And Sark would take you down the road to
being a player.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Actually, my OMG moment came as a player. I was
the player at b y U and we were pretty good.
I think we might have been two and oh, and
we had beaten A and M in week one. We
had I think beaten like Arkansas State State or somebody.
In week two and we went to Washington and we
went into Husky Stadium and it was so loud that
(07:59):
I just hadn't been in an environment that was loud
like that. I ended up getting sacked I think seven
or eight times. We got beat and that was our
only lost that year, went fourteen and one. But but
in that moment, you know, it's it's there's another level
in your mind. You go to, well, there's another level
of what what opposing stadiums can feel like and be like,
(08:19):
especially when there's some hatred towards the opponent when you
walk in for whatever reason. People can generate hate in
a lot of different ways. And so for me, now
I've learned to relish those opportunities. There's something that I
that I kind of relish being the villain.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I kind of like going in.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There thinking, man, there's there's one hundred versus one hundred
and twenty thousand and and we're the villain. And it's
okay being the villain, you know, And and and how
do how do we create that? Uh, you know, that
deafening silence? And how do we go about that? And
that that comes about by our style of play, that
comes about by our execution, that comes about by sticking together,
(08:57):
playing as one. But I love those opportun unies as
much as I love playing at home. I like that too,
because I think you find out a lot about yourself
and a lot about your team.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So there it is some more sound from Longhorns head
coach Steve Sarkisian. His OMG moment happened as a player,
and he was right. They'd beaten Texas A and M
in the season opener forty one thirty seven in nineteen
ninety six, then blew out Arkansas State fifty eight to
nine before losing to Washington twenty nine to seventeen, and
(09:28):
that was their only loss all the way through. And
of course they beat Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl
nineteen fifteen, and he's in the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.
As a matter of fact. We'll be back to wrap
up hour number two on sports Radio AM thirteen under
the zone
Let's hear some more from logrn's head coach, Steve Sarcasian.
This was from this morning for the media availability, and
one of the questions he was asked about was team speed.
He wanted to see the overall team speed athleticism increase
as well as the whole big human thing about adding
size along the line. So he was asked if he
(00:22):
is seeing the ratcheting up of team speed after just
one week this year and after the Paul Camp workouts
that he was aiming for.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, I think it's probably a byproduct of I'd say
probably about three things. You know. One is recruitability, right,
we try to recruit to speed, and so as players
come into our program, I'd like to think they are
either fast or we think they have the ability to
get faster. That's the first part, right, You have what
(00:51):
are we identifying as a as a staff That isn't
that are attributes that are important to us. You guys
have heard me talk at length about big humans upfront,
but speed on the perimeter is is important to us,
and so we try to identify that. Two, I think
the way we train, you know, I think coach Beckton
with his with his background in the track world. The
(01:13):
way that the way that we train our players to run,
to run for speed, to be explosive, to have the
ability to change directions is something that we train to
uh in the summer. And then the third I think
is our nutrition piece. You know, I think that that
our guys really do a good job of eating, right.
I think they've got they've got a great deal of
trust and confidence in our in our nutritionists and our
(01:35):
dietitians of getting their bodies into optimal performance shape so
that they can utilize the god given talents that they
have to go along with the work that they've put
in to play fast.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh. When you were student at Texas, was the I
think it's what it's called what Texas Athletics Nutrition Center.
The tank was that was that finished? Was that underway
when you were a student? I'm not sure actually, Okay,
which answers my second question.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Have you ever eaten now?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah? I hear it's pretty good for them, all right.
I was thinking about that when Sark was talking about
the nutrition value of that deal. All right, when you
get in a game like this, Uh, it never hurts
to have an experienced quarterback in any game. Last weekend
it's Colorado State when they play uelman Row in a
(02:24):
couple of weeks. Obviously, when they play Oklahoma or Georgia.
But he was asked about in a game like this
beginner sectional matchup on the road, how important is it
to have an experienced quarterback like Quinn youers taking the snaps?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's critical. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This is a you know, difficult environment to play in.
You know, I mean, these guys have it won twenty
three in a row at home on accident. You know,
It's it's tough. You know, it's it's a big building,
it can get loud. They've they've got a they've got
a defensive system in place that their players play a
lot of confidence with. They played with a lot of swagger,
you can see that on tape. But having that calming
(03:02):
effect at quarterback, I think is helpful for the other
guys on the field and and for me. Just knowing
that he's going to operate the calls accordingly is comforting
knowing that, hey, when I'm calling something, he's understanding the
intent of the play call. That doesn't mean it's always
going to go that way, but as long as Quinn
understands the intent of the play call. Generally pretty good
(03:24):
things come out of it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's usually asked about the running backs where I'm sarrt
Is and was again, you know Jade Blue and Trey Wisener.
Are you know RB one and RB two if you will,
and they both get carries, But he was asked about
the freshman Jared Gibson actually wound up being the leading
rusher for Texas in the contract. He's got a lot
(03:46):
of carries in the second half after the issue was
long decided, and was asked, did he show enough, did
he do enough to show that maybe he might get
some first half snaps against Michigan?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, I mean, Jared's going to play for us again.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You know, when you're when you're kind of a third
on the depth chart and we've got two really good
players in front of him. It's always trying to find,
you know, that right rhythm for everybody involved, and every
game takes on a life of its own of the
way that it's going in the in the rhythm of
the game and the score and time of possession and
you know, amount of plays ran, so on and so forth.
(04:20):
But we have the utmost confidence in Jeric. I thought
him getting I think it was ten carries last week
or so was big for him and just his own confidence.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So it's you know when when it happens.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't exactly know when he's going to get into
the game, but I know he'll he'll play this Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I think Sartin mentioned was thirteen freshmen who saw action
in the game, and a lot of other younger fresh
faces might have been Red Chard freshman or sophomores who
hadn't played much but got a chance to go. And
he was asked, does he know how many freshmen they'll
(04:56):
actually take on the trip, because contrary to popularly believe
you can take every single player on your roster on
the road, you can't. So the question was, you know,
does he know how many freshmen he would take with
him to Michigan?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And the other side.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Of this, uh was what do you what do the
coaches say to the players who are not.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Going to make the trip? How do you handle that?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Off the top of my head, I don't, I don't
know exactly. You know, it would take me too long
and I'd waste everybody's time. There's a fair amount of them,
there's a lot of them going on the trip and
if they're going, they probably have a role.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
To to our success, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The guys that don't go, you know, I think, I
think in the end in this in this day and age,
it's like, hey, we're here to develop you to become
the best player that you can be, so that you
can be the best teammate you can be, so that
we can be the best team that we can be.
And we really preach team because if you if you
pour into the team, and you'll get what you deserve
(06:02):
in the back end of it. And everybody's you know,
when freshmen come in, they're always at different stages, you know.
And I love to use the Kelvin Banks example because
in that recruiting class we had signed those seven offensive linemen.
Six of them came midyear and Kelvin didn't come until
the summer. He was number seven that didn't come until
the summer. But he was the one guy that started,
(06:23):
you know, as a as a true freshman, you know,
at left tackle. And so it's rest is history. So
it's not always about you know, when did I get here,
or how many opportunities and reps did I get? It's
what did you do with the opportunity when it presented
it to you, and how do you go about your
business on a on a daily basis. And so that's
what we try to instill in those guys. And like
(06:43):
I said, some guys maybe are a little further along
than others, But that doesn't mean that just because a
guy doesn't go on the trip, you know, maybe he's
not going to play here. No, he's just at a
different stage of his development. And I've seen plenty of
guys not travel early on in their career and end
up playing at the end of the sea or becoming
you know, frontline players for US in year twur and
year three, and so their journeys just just getting underway,
(07:07):
all right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And then one other questions, our good friend Cedar Golden
from the Austin American States been asked this and it
was about the quote unquote o MG moment, the OMG moment?
Did he have an OMG moment as a coach? And
and the reason why you talk about the oh my
gosh moment is going into a place like Michigan, has
(07:28):
he had an OMG moment that even recalls as a
coach And Sark would take you down the road to
being a player.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Actually, my OMG moment came as a player. I was
the player at b y U and we were pretty good.
I think we might have been two and oh, and
we had beaten A and M in week one. We
had I think beaten like Arkansas State State or somebody.
In week two and we went to Washington and we
went into Husky Stadium and it was so loud that
(07:59):
I just hadn't been in an environment that was loud
like that. I ended up getting sacked I think seven
or eight times. We got beat and that was our
only lost that year, went fourteen and one. But but
in that moment, you know, it's it's there's another level
in your mind. You go to, well, there's another level
of what what opposing stadiums can feel like and be like,
(08:19):
especially when there's some hatred towards the opponent when you
walk in for whatever reason. People can generate hate in
a lot of different ways. And so for me, now
I've learned to relish those opportunities. There's something that I
that I kind of relish being the villain.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I kind of like going in.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There thinking, man, there's there's one hundred versus one hundred
and twenty thousand and and we're the villain. And it's
okay being the villain, you know, And and and how
do how do we create that? Uh, you know, that
deafening silence? And how do we go about that? And
that that comes about by our style of play, that
comes about by our execution, that comes about by sticking together,
(08:57):
playing as one. But I love those opportun unies as
much as I love playing at home. I like that too,
because I think you find out a lot about yourself
and a lot about your team.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So there it is some more sound from Longhorns head
coach Steve Sarkisian. His OMG moment happened as a player,
and he was right. They'd beaten Texas A and M
in the season opener forty one thirty seven in nineteen
ninety six, then blew out Arkansas State fifty eight to
nine before losing to Washington twenty nine to seventeen, and
(09:28):
that was their only loss all the way through. And
of course they beat Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl
nineteen fifteen, and he's in the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.
As a matter of fact. We'll be back to wrap
up hour number two on sports Radio AM thirteen under
the zone
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