Sark: Texas ‘on an objective’ in last Huge 12 season

• Dave Wilson, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 1, 2023, 12:50 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

  stated Tuesday that while Huge 12 teams might have revenge on their minds in the Longhorns ‘last season in the league, the Texas locker space does too.”I think this group is on a mission, they’ve

  taken this mindset of being on an objective. They’ve kind of embraced the John Wick mindset, “Sarkisian said at a news conference.” I think that they’ve type of assumed this mindset of, ‘Em brace the hate. ‘We get it. We’re the University of Texas, we get it. This is our in 2015 in the Huge 12. We can sit there and be a punching bag, or we can go attack the people that we’re going to play. And I think that they’ve presumed that obligation to state, hey, we’re gon na pursue everybody else too. I think that that’s the ideal mentality to have.”

  For the very first time because 2009, Texas was picked in the media poll to win the league. Sarkisian mentioned the optimism around Austin and of how he feels as if he has a deep roster efficient in winning games in a variety of ways.Editor’s Picks

1 Related”There’s absolutely a lot of enjoyment,” he said. “When you look at the season-ticket sales in June, being offered out in June, over 68,000 season tickets. … I understand our trainee tickets are on a record speed today of what’s to be offered. So, I believe there’s a great deal of excitement in the air. … Now it’s time to put in the work.”

One factor for optimism is the continued offseason buzz around quarterback Quinn Ewers, who Sarkisian said naturally has a better grasp of the offense in his 2nd season and has actually revealed he wants to put in the work to enhance.

“You see the commitment the person’s taken into his general body composition; he actually has actually bought into his diet. He’s purchased into the workouts,” Sarkisian stated. “That takes a great deal of discipline and commitment and focus. I think clearly, you understand, he’s in a terrific mindset. This feels like his team. He leads that method, you can hear how he speaks with the group that method.”

Off the field, Sarkisian stated former TCU coach Gary Patterson, who was an unique assistant to Sarkisian in 2015, is not with the program currently but did not elaborate on whether he ‘d return.

“Gary was a tremendous property for us a year back,” he said. “He did a truly good task with the program, stepped away at the end of the season. Since today, he’s not part of the program. We’ll see where it goes from here.”

Sarkisian likewise joked about freshman quarterback Arch Manning’s record-setting $103,000 football card sale today, after being asked whether he was the one who purchased it in an online auction that benefited a regional nonprofit with the assistance of St. David’s HealthCare and St. David’s Foundation.

“I did not,” he said. “I do not have that much cash. But I will state this … I do not touch on NIL deals like that. However I do believe, what a cool concept, and the reality that it’s supporting St. David’s and what all of it type of played out to be and ideally everybody type of put in the time to research what that card had to do with and what it was supporting. Because I do think it’s a really cool offer.”