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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Texas fires Tom Herman, hires Alabama OC Sarkisian

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Staples is joined by The Athletic's Max Olson to react to the head coaching changes at Texas. What went wrong with Tom Herman, and how can Steve Sarkisian succeed in Austin?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Andy Staples show.

0:19.2

And yes, I realize it's been less than 24 hours since we published a show.

0:23.6

But many, many things have happened.

0:26.3

And that is why I haven't even gotten home yet from the Sugar Bowl.

0:29.1

I am in a parking lot of a gas station in Libo, Florida.

0:32.3

And I'm here with Max Olson.

0:34.4

We got to talk, Max.

0:35.6

Texas has fired a coach and hired a coach,

0:39.7

all basically the amount of time I've been driving.

0:42.6

Andy, I started my day sitting on my couch, playing some Madden and listening to your podcast

0:49.0

this morning. I didn't think I was going to be on the podcast today. What a treat.

0:52.7

I didn't think I was going to be on the podcast today. What a treat. I didn't think I was going to be on the podcast today.

0:56.0

But you and I had this conversation on the day that Chris Del Coney released his now infamous statement about Tom Herman.

1:05.3

And it was a very vague statement.

1:07.9

It was a word salad, if you will.

1:10.7

If you're a Seinfeld fan, it was probably, I'd say the big word, the big word salad.

1:16.9

La word salad, la word insolada grande.

1:21.1

It was, yeah, our takes on that day age pretty well.

1:25.4

It was the, it was a statement that it intended to express both that Crystal Coney supports Tom Herman and that he also does not support Tom Herman, which it's a tough thing to kind of workshop how you, how you say that effectively. But clearly, the message on December 12th that Tom Herman is coming back in 2021

1:46.5

really just applied to January 1st of 2021 while they continued a secret coaching search.

1:55.0

Steve Sarkisian, the new Texas coach.

1:57.5

And this is not too surprising that Steve Sarkisian is once again a big time college football head coach. And this is not too surprising that Steve Sarkeesian is once again a big time college football

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