Longhorns head football coach Steve Sarkisian receives superlative endorsement: ‘Texas truly is back’; “Texas is the new Ohio State”…See Details

February 8, 2025 Sports Gist Football 0

Texas head football coach Steve Sarkisian lost more talent to the NFL than any of his CFP coaching counterparts. On a related note, the Longhorns will welcome more talent to their 2025 class than any other team in the country.

Those two realities are great news for a program. Austin has a steady plan to produce pro-caliber talent and, more importantly, replace them.

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USA Today’s Matt Hayes sees Sarkisian’s regime as the return to form for a Texas program that’s been overextending and underproducing since the mid-Mack Brown era.

In three words: Texas is back. Not just because Arch Manning is ready to replace Quinn Ewers, but because every significant Longhorns loss has a reinforcement ready to step in.

“The buildout from coach Steve Sarkisian. Or the better way to say it: Texas truly is back. It’s plug and play now with elite recruiting classes (and a little help from the portal), and the expectations of winning it all are in full force with talented QB Arch Manning taking over,” Hayes wrote.

With Texas completing its 2025 class on National Signing Day, Sarkisian and Co. are now focusing on putting the finishing touches on the roster via the transfer portal.

“With high school recruiting essentially finished for this cycle, attention is focused on the NCAA Transfer Portal, where Sarkisian has signed five players, including three defensive tackles to help fill a position of great need,” Lone Star Live’s Josh Newman wrote.

Texas being back means Sarkisian will probably dominate the transfer portal aspect of his job too.

“Texas is the new Ohio State”: Josh Pate makes an optimistic observation on Steve Sarkisian’s recruiting

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Head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns have put together another strong recruiting class. However, they have drawn criticism because they have not been able to get over the hump to win a National Championship.

On Thursday’s “Josh Pate’s College Football Show,” Pate talked about this and how people are treating Texas the same way they used to treat Georgia and Ohio State (starts at 40:50).

“I had some takeaways, not from yesterday, but from this entire recruiting cycle now. Texas just keeps on stacking. Texas is the new Ohio State. Ohio State was the new Georgia. So, what I mean by that if you watched the show for a while you know what I mean. For a while, Kirby and Georgia were the team that recruited at a high level and won a whole lot of games there.

Josh Pate then went on to discuss how the new powerhouse getting criticized for not winning is Texas.

“Well now guess where their attention is going. It’s going to Austin, Texas, and it’s going to Steve Sarkisian, and it’s going to where whether or not he’s going to win the big one. Look at Sark, yeah he can stack all these recruiting classes, yeah they’ve got all this talent, yeah they’ve got all these deep pockets in NIL, but they can’t win the big one.

“Yeah they can, they just haven’t. The best way to go about that is not to pay attention to what people are saying on the outside.”

Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns have another strong recruiting class

Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns have consistently put together strong recruiting classes. This year was no different as they have the top class in the nation, per 247 Sports.

So, the Longhorns have continued to position themselves for success in the years to come.

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