Steve Sarkisian delaying the inevitable not naming the starting QB

The current alumni tour that second-year Texas football head coach Steve Sarkisian is on has also essentially turned into a media tour where he’s talked about a lot of the looming questions and concerns surrounding this team heading into the 2022 season. And one of the major looming question marks for Sark and his staff this offseason is the quarterback competition.

Sark and the Longhorns staff are seeing out this looming quarterback competition between rising junior Hudson Card and the former Ohio State Buckeyes freshman transfer Quinn Ewers. Texas saw Card and Ewers make some necessary strides in their own right during spring camp in the last couple of months.

But this competition is really about to heat up when fall camp begins in roughly two months.

In the meantime, though, Sark will be asked a lot of questions pertaining to this competition between these two former blue-chip recruits. That was the case when Sark was speaking to University of Texas-Austin alumni at the Touchdown Club of Houston on May 18.

Steve Sarkisian showing patience with Texas football QB battle and Quinn Ewers

When speaking to the Touchdown Club of Houston this week, Sark mentioned that he knows that the fans and media want him to make the call for the starting quarterback “sooner rather than later”. But he then stated that he’s going to make the call “when it’s right for the team”.

It is worth noting that it sounds like there is more urgency for Sark to name the starting quarterback this offseason than there was last.

Sark definitely has to be more decisive with his quarterback situation this fall than he was last year. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that he has to name a starting quarterback before the start of fall camp.

The likely scenario here feels that Sark and the Longhorns staff will name a starting quarterback in the early stages of fall camp. That would likely be the best timing for the Longhorns at this point of the offseason considering that the starter will be thrown into the fire right away this coming season.

Texas faces two likely preseason top 25 teams in the first three weeks of the season during the non-conference slate in the Alabama Crimson Tide (Sep. 10) and UTSA Roadrunners (Sep. 17).

Nonetheless, it still feels like Sark is delaying the inevitable with this looming quarterback competition as it seems like more and more momentum is going to Ewers over Card to win the starting job with each passing week. Ewers definitely made some notable strides during spring camp, and it feels like he will have everything he needs to run away with the quarterback competition this fall.

Texas wrapped up spring camp on April 23 with the altered version of the annual Orange-White spring football game. Sark and the Longhorns are set to open up the regular season at home on Sep. 3 against Louisiana-Monroe.