State of the Program: Texas w/ Sam Khan Jr.
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Andy and The Athletic's Texas Longhorns penman Sam Khan Jr. check-in on the crown jewel of Austin. What will it take from Steve Sarkisian to help restore UT to its former luster? Is cultivating and nurturing talent Sarkisian's top task as head coach? How many first-round picks will the program produce in time for next year's draft? Hudson Card was the prohibitive favorite to take Texas' first snap of the year, but Casey Thompson's Alamo Bowl performance places him square in the running for the starting QB job. What criteria will Sarkisian use when choosing his starting signal-caller? The guys consider how Texas will handle its school song "The Eyes of Texas" and how it relates to players, fans, and recruits' reservations. Plus, Andy and Sam perform a temperature check of the Big 12 and weigh where Texas ranks among the conference's best clubs; can Sarkisian, who was in close proximity to Alabama's success, impart what he learned in Tuscaloosa to his program, and why won't Andy give Texas the benefit of the doubt?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staple show. |
| 0:11.1 | It's another state of the program edition. |
| 0:13.4 | We've talked a lot about off-the-field stuff all week. |
| 0:15.8 | So let's go back on the field. |
| 0:18.9 | And we've got a first- coach at a program that believes itself to be a national power, |
| 0:27.6 | but has not acted like a national power on the field. |
| 0:30.8 | I speak, of course, of the Texas Longhorns. |
| 0:34.1 | And to talk about Texas, I bring on Sam Con Jr., the athletics tech expert, and Sam, |
| 0:39.9 | you did the state of the program story on the Longhorns this year. And I thought something |
| 0:43.7 | was interesting right off the bat. You mentioned something that Steve Sarkesian's father had said |
| 0:49.8 | when he got introduced. And he said, 22 years ago, he was talking to his son about what's the best job in America. |
| 0:57.3 | And Steve Sarkesian said, Texas. And this would have been, you know, late 90s. And you know what? |
| 1:03.9 | Back then he was probably right. I'm not sure it is right now. I think it is. I mean, it's definitely not the best, but I don't know how far |
| 1:13.5 | down the line it is because the part I can't figure out. This is the part that bugs me, and you |
| 1:19.6 | and I have had this conversation before, is I don't think Charlie Strong forgot how to coach. |
| 1:24.8 | I don't think Tom Herman forgot how to coach. I'm not sure |
| 1:27.8 | Mac Brown forgot how to coach because he seems to be doing pretty well in North Carolina right now. |
| 1:32.4 | I wonder sometimes if it's more the place than the coaches. Yeah, I think that has a lot to do |
| 1:40.4 | with it. And so much has changed since Mack was coach. And I go back to this 101 and |
| 1:46.9 | 16 from 2001 and 2009, 78 and 60 since then. I think I've said it before, and I'll say it again, |
| 1:55.7 | 101 and 16 is the exception, not the rule. Right. At Texas. Certainly post-integration. |
| 2:02.7 | I think pre-1970, I think you could make a different argument. |
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