Sark amazed by Big 12 commish’s jab at Texas

• Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterAug 28, 2023, 02:30 PM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com given that 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Early Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

  said he was a little stunned by current remarks from Huge 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, who publicly told Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire that he “much better take care of business “against the Longhorns.The Longhorns will host the competing Red Raiders on Nov. 24, the day after Thanksgiving, in their last Huge 12 game prior to departing for the SEC. Texas Tech beat Texas in 2015 in Lubbock, 37-34– an upset that Yormark referenced recently while talking to the Red Raider Club.”Coach [McGuire], I’m not going to put

  any pressure on you, however I’m gon na be in Austin for Thanksgiving, OK? And you ‘d better function like you did right here in Lubbock last year, “Yormark said.Editor’s Picks 1 Related When asked Monday about Yormark’s remark, Sarkisian joked that the reporter was”trying to get him in trouble

” before responding.” I got a letter from the commissioner about sportsmanship the day before that speech, so I’m attempting to figure out what are we promoting to our student-athletes,”Sarkisian said.”To go say those kinds of things? I’m not thinking he’s gon na have his Thanksgiving dinner with us the night before that game.” Inside the Texas locker room, the message this spring has actually been to”welcome the hate”that the Longhorns know they’ll face from hostile crowds. Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte has been vocal about it as well, consisting of reacting to a fan that sent him an image of a T-shirt mockup with the mantra.” Pickin’up whatcha putting down,”Del Conte stated in reference to an “welcome the hate “shirt.”The truth of it is that a lot has been made about [

Yormark’s comments],” Sarkisian stated.” A lot has been made about a T-shirt being made.

Let’s not make this more than it is. This is about us. We’re concentrated on what we get to do and why we get to do it. We’re proud to be part of the University of Texas. … We know who lags us, which’s OK. Now let’s go play. “Texas, ranked No. 11 in the preseason Associated Press survey, hasn’t won the Huge 12 since 2009. The Longhorns likewise were selected as the conference favorite in the league’s preseason

media poll.One reason for the optimism around this year’s season has been the development of quarterback Quinn Ewers, according to Sarkisian, who said that the absence of a beginning quarterback

fight has allowed him to manage Ewers in a different way this year. “It’s training him to be the very best that he an be and not feel like sometimes that I’m pointing things out that he’s doing wrong,”stated Sarkisian, who added that the backup race between Maalik Murphy and Arch Manning has

yet to be identified.” Who do we seem like come Thursday is the person that made that chance to be the backup today, that’ll be who the backup is,” he said.Texas opens its season Saturday in your home versus Rice, which has lost the last

15 conferences with the Longhorns.