The Flagship: Steve Sarkisian working to finalize his Texas staff

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is inching closer and closer to finalizing his new staff with the Longhorns after zeroing in on his expected new defensive coordinator hire and adding a key recruiter to his staff at Texas. On the mid-week episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes deliver the latest on Sarkisian's defensive coordinator search, which has led to the first-year head coach working to finalize a deal with long-time Washington assistant coach Pete Kwiatkowski to takeover as DC with the Longhorns. Upon finalizing a deal with the Huskies defensive coordinator, Sarkisian will be one step closer to wrapping up his first task as head coach at Texas in locking in a solid coaching staff to help him in rebuilding the Texas football program. While finding a solid DC has been a huge priority for Sarkisian, one could argue one of the most impressive hires went down last week when the head coach added Alabama special teams coordinator Jeff Banks to take on the same role with the Longhorns. Banks is considered one of the top recruiters in college football, and someone Nick Saban was not too thrilled with losing after Sarkisian poached him away to make the move to Austin from Tuscaloosa. The Flagship Podcast weighs in on what Texas is adding in new DC Kwiatkowski, who has spent the last seven seasons helping lead the defense at the University of Washington, and addresses some of the other members of Sarkisian's staff. The hosts then shift their focus to the weekly 'Love it or Leave it' segment, with this week's topics addressing how Kwiatkowski measures up to some other DC candidates Sarkisian considered, who the best assistant coaching hire has been up to this point and what to think of Texas hoops' first loss of Big 12 play. Catch all of that and much more on the mid-week edition of The Flagship Podcast. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:14.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And 20 Premier League games.
0:19.0	This week, watch Newcastle versus Liverpool, Arsenal versus Man United, and eight
0:25.7	other Premier League games.
0:28.2	It's on Prime.
0:35.6	Welcome in, everybody, to the flagship podcast.
0:39.1	I am Chip Brown, joined as always by our fearless leader at Horns 24-7,
0:44.1	the managing editor, Taylor Estes.
0:46.6	Taylor, how are you doing?
0:49.0	Chip, it's just another day in paradise here covering the University of Texas in a coaching search. How about you?
0:55.2	I mean, I think Texas fans are excited, especially as it pertains to what Steve Sarkisian's got going.
1:04.0	We'll get into that. Texas basketball, you know, a tough loss to Texas Tech will mention that.
1:11.3	And then a couple of games postponed road trips to Iowa State and TCU both postponed right now.
1:17.8	Um, the next basketball game on the schedule for the horns is against Oklahoma on the 26th.
1:24.3	And, um, and Miranda Ellis, the stud ace pitcher for Texas softball in a great stick at the plate
1:33.5	announcing this past week that she is going to opt out of the 21 season after
1:39.4	initially saying that she would come back for that season.
1:43.8	She was the softball America player of the year for the shortened 2020 season.
1:50.9	So that's some tough news, Taylor.
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