BREAKING Official: Texas hires Alabama OC Steve Sarkisian as head coach

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

Well, I hate Sark is leaving, but Tom Herman is available.....

Just a few years ago, he was the Ohio State OC that was the hottest assistant in the country after having helped tOSU to the national championship, trucking us in the Sugar Bowl along the way.....I know, I know.... the final score was only 7 points. But the game wasn’t as close as the score would indicate. We scored the first 14 points, largely off of tOSU mistakes, got outscored by 21 the rest of the way, and it could have been worse.

Yet another entry into the Saban coaching rehab program? I’d take him in a heartbeat.

It’s either Herman or Saban might go after Freeze......... unless he has a dynamic OC already on the hook we don’t know about

I’d make dang sure he doesn’t take any of our assistants....... he can build his own staff and not poach, and I’d imagine he and Saban have an agreement

 

[GrayTide]

Some familiar names mentioned in this article.

Sources: Part of Sark's Texas allure is potential staff

As Texas officials worked behind the scenes to bring an end to the Tom Herman era atop the Longhorns football program and find Herman's replacement as the

footballscoop.com

 

[bamadwain]

Also b4 everyone flames me, i do appreciate everything Sark has done for our offense This could've been why he wasn't interested in the boogs because Texas was going to b available

 

[bamadwain]

My initial response to this was panic. Then I remembered that this is not coach Saban’s first rodeo. He knew last year that Sark might leave. He most definitely has multiple candidates in mind and I would guess most guys will jump at the chance to build their resume under Saban.
Where this becomes bad for Bama is if Sark takes our top recruiters like Banks, Scott and Huff. Also, losing Flood would hurt. We will still have some of the best players in the country. Next OC up.

They are not only goid recruiters their pretty good position coaches as well

 

[day-day]

The good news - whoever comes in will be running the same plays. Saban now has all of those play books. Saban now understands how they are designed, and what they are designed to do to defenses. He is not going to bring in a guy and start running an inferior set of plays.

Now, to find the right guy to call the right play at the right time.

So Coach Saban is a branch of Sarkisian's coaching tree.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

Some familiar names mentioned in this article.

Sources: Part of Sark's Texas allure is potential staff

As Texas officials worked behind the scenes to bring an end to the Tom Herman era atop the Longhorns football program and find Herman's replacement as the

footballscoop.com

I’d hate to lose Flood, but there are some good O Line coaches out there....... but I would try to keep our assistants

 

[Moro Creek]

Sark is a great OC and will be missed, but we will get another great OC. IMO, there's a good possibility we will have an even better team next year with our returning players and recruits. Business as usual.

 

[B1GTide]

I’d hate to lose Flood, but there are some good O Line coaches out there....... but I would try to keep our assistants

Saban will be very upset with Sark if he takes any on-field coaches with him.

 

[Bpilktree]

If it is Tom Herman we may be able to flip Quinn Ewers to Alabama who was a Texas commit for 2022 and decomitted and picked Ohio State instead He is the number one recruit in the country as a quarterback and was recruited hard by Herman. He could be in same spot that Young is this year. Learn for year as freshman then take over in 2024.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

Saban will be very upset with Sark if he takes any on-field coaches with him.

I think they may have an agreement about that.......unlike other assistants who left

 

[bamadwain]

I believe Saban will pick an oc who is balanced like Sark

 

[kyallie]

SIAP but I perused the the last 2 pages of thread and didn't see a link

Official: Texas hires Alabama OC Steve Sarkisian as head coach

 

[bamacon]

Hopefully Sark won’t go scored earth like some previous assistants but we’ll see soon enough.

 

[JayBama_in_PCOLA]

I’m already sick of Texas.

 

[CoachJeff]

If Sark screws up this title game I’ll never forgive him. Maybe we can schedule Texas for an opener soon.

 

[B1GTide]

If Sark screws up this title game I’ll never forgive him. Maybe we can schedule Texas for an opener soon.

2022

 

[TideEngineer08]

I’m already sick of Texas.

I have been since 2009.

 

[BamaFossil]

I wish Sark the best in terms of family and personal life. I very much appreciate that he'll be our OC for the championship game. As for wishing him success at Texas... nah. They seem a bit to entitled for my blood. I do wish for him a loaded contract so he'll be set for life even if the fickle Texas crowd turns on him in a couple of years.

Would Tom Herman be a good OC?

 

[bamacon]

If Sark screws up this title game I’ll never forgive him. Maybe we can schedule Texas for an opener soon.

He’ll soon be on the list of former assistants to lose to El Jefe

 

[CB4]

Saban will be very upset with Sark if he takes any on-field coaches with him.

I would hope Sark would have more respect than to do something like that to CNS, especially after pulling him off “the trash heap of coaches with damaged reputations” and giving him a second chance at a coaching career.