Every week during the season, SEC head coaches have a midweek teleconference with different members of the media. Coaches are allowed to speak on or address anything that they'd like to based on different topics or questions that they're asked.
Here is a quote summary of everything that Texas HC Steve Sarkisian said during his week 3 media window:
Sark on Texas' growth and development:
"Looking for continuing growth in our football team. Trying to get better in all three phases. Continue to bring some young players along that got some good experience last week. They need to continue to try to do that this week and try to play a more efficient game than we did last week. Obviously, we had a high number of penalties, working on playing a cleaner game, and getting those numbers down and just being more efficient in all three phases."
Sark on UTEP QB Malachi Nelson:
"I thought he was a really talented player in high school. Was a very natural passer and had a quick delivery… DeAndre Moore was actually with him at one point. He was one of the leaders on that team. Obviously was a very high recruit. He’s been on his own journey at this point. It’s great that he’s found a home. He’s playing good football. Their offense obviously revolves a lot around him being the quarterback and that style of play, so we’ve got to try to to do our best to contain him that way. Hopefully we can disrupt him a little bit with our disguise, coverages, and ultimately with the pass rush"
Sark on the Longhorns' culture:
"I think developing the locker room, and in our case our culture, is as important as developing them as players on the field. I’ve said for a long time now that culture beats talent. If you play as a team and you’re really well connected, you’re trustworthy, you’re accountable, and you do your job really well, that can supersede a talented team. I’ve always also said that a talented team that has a really good culture, that has a great, strong locker room, I think that’s really dangerous and really powerful. That’s when you have something."
Sark on practice style and reps:
"I think one thing we try to do, especially throughout training camp, is we rotate our practice times throughout training camp.
From a practice standpoint, our reps are evenly distributed to a point to where they should get exposed to (the heat). But there’s nothing like that gameday of performing in that heat and then having a rotation of what that feels like rotating through."