Sark says Texas football head coach is ‘best job in America’
Former Texas football head coach Tom Herman received the news that he would be dismissed from the program, and replaced by Steve Sarkisian, on Jan. 2.
In the first discussion that the current Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator and the Broyles Award winner Steve Sarkisian had with the media on Jan. 2, he opened up on a number of topics related to the head coaching position with the Texas football program. It was announced on the morning of Jan. 2 that Sark would replace now former Texas fourth-year head coach Tom Herman.
Sark replaced Herman following a 2020 campaign where the Longhorns finished up with a record of 7-3 (5-3 Big 12), winning five of their final six games. Their last game resulted in a 55-23 drubbing of their former Big 12 foe, the Colorado Buffaloes and first-year head coach Karl Dorrell, in the Alamo Bowl back on Dec. 29.
But that high note that the Longhorns ended the 2020 season on wasn’t enough to give Herman job security heading into the 2021 offseason. Texas athletic director Chris del Conte announced that the football program would be parting ways with Herman following four years at the helm, and that his replacement would be Sark once the 2020 college football season concluded for the Crimson Tide.
Texas will try their hand at their fourth head coach in a span of time less than a decade with the hiring of Sark. At least he seems to be in very high spirits and have a good amount of optimism for the direction of the Texas program.
Most notably, he stated that he believes that the Texas head coaching position is the “best job in America” when discussing with the media on Jan. 2. Here’s more on what he had to say on this matter, and more, when talking to the media this weekend (monologue thanks to 247Sports).
"“This morning I was on the phone with my parents, my dad is 84 years old and I mentioned about how when I think of getting this Texas head-coaching job and he said about 20 years ago you told me dad, that’s the job. That’s the best job in America. It’s amazing to think here we are 15 years removed from me standing on the opposite sideline and Vince Young running into the endzone of the Rose Bowl and being named the head coach of Texas. It’s a tremendous opportunity for me.”"
Sark was definitely an interesting hire for the Longhorns to replace Herman. But firm judgement on this hire will have to wait until at least a year or two into his tenure as the Texas head coach. He will inherit a roster that can win immediately atop the Big 12 standings.
It’s hard to place Big 12 Championship expectations on Sark in his first year as head coach on the Forty Acres, though.
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The next steps that will make an immediate impact on the Texas program following the Sark hire as head coach will be configuring the coaching staff and the rest of the 2021 recruiting class. National Signing Day is less than one month away, and there’s a lot to decipher with the Texas assistants in the near future.