Big Noon Conversations: Texas’ Steve Sarkisian on the SEC move & learning from Saban & Pete Carroll

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt sits down with Texas Head Coach Steve Sarkisian in this episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations. They discuss the pressure that comes with being the Head Coach at Texas and how the move to the SEC will affect his program. The Longhorns coach reflects on what he learned from his two coaching mentors that both stepped away from the sport this offseason – Nick Saban and Pete Carroll – and reveals what he believes was the key to their incredible success. The two also discuss the commonality they share as they discuss sobriety and how being vulnerable in his own life has impacted Sarkisian’s culture-building within his program. Lastly, Coach Sark reveals his best and worst playcalls of his career – with his worst playcall ultimately leading to an iconic moment in Texas history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was walking into whatever the situation was, whatever the temperature was, that's how I responded.
0:09.1	And I've gotten to now, I'm a thermostat. I set that temperature.
0:16.0	Most influential people in the sport talking about the sport globally. This time on the Joel Flat Show's big noon conversations I talked with Steve
0:33.7	Sarkeesian, the head coach at the University of Texas.
0:37.0	All right, pleased to be here in Austin with the head coach at the University of Texas, Steve Sarcasian.
0:46.2	Steve, what's up buddy?
0:47.8	What's up?
0:48.8	Coach Sarc, I've been trying to get down here, wanted to do this last year, but now we finally got you.
0:54.1	So I'm super excited.
0:55.5	This is awesome.
0:57.4	First of all, congratulations on a great year last year.
1:01.0	And it didn't come out of nowhere because you had been laying down the
1:05.2	foundation of what was about to happen last year and you and I had talked about
1:09.4	that for quite a bit but before we get to that I want you to just off the off the top. What's the best
1:16.0	part about being the University of Texas head football coach? Oh man. I can get into any restaurant I want.
1:25.0	And the food in Austin is great.
1:30.0	No, you know what it is.
1:31.0	It's not being from Texas, and you hear so much
1:37.1	about what it is like to be the Texas head coach
1:41.0	and haven't been fortunate enough to be at some great places.
1:44.0	And then you get here and you kind of put the hat on and myself, you know, I feel like I work for everybody else, you know, and I try to go about my day like that.
1:57.0	But man, what comes out of it is how many people support you, want you to do well, are willing to help in any capacity that they can,
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