Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian discusses the challenges of managing players' decisions during the early signing period, transfer portal, and NFL draft considerations.
There's no question about the fact that it's been a hectic month for college football , and Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian is certainly feeling the fatigue. With early national signing day on Dec. 4 and the opening of the transfer portal on Dec. 9 interrupting the SEC Championship and now the first round of the College Football Playoff, Sarkisian is having to focus his attention in multiple directions.
He said the past few weeks have been unexpected in the way that they've demanded so much energy, and throwing in the fact that players are preparing to enter their professional careers has added even more to his plate. 'This has been a very challenging, call it, three weeks,' Sarkisian said during Monday's media availability. 'When you think about it, we had signing day on Wednesday of the SEC Championship game, and so we were trying to solidify that class and get ready to play for an SEC Championship on Saturday, and then Monday, the transfer portal opens, and so you're dealing with current players on your roster who are trying to make decisions if they want to stay, if they want to transfer, and all the while, still talk to some players about the NFL, because those conversations are happening. So last week was a was a busy week for me, more so than I was probably anticipating.'But in order to help his audience fully grasp how stressful it's been to keep bringing in success from all areas, Sarkisian relayed an analogy that he said he used in a previous interview, tying in another upcoming major sports event. 'In three weeks, the NFL playoffs are going to begin. And imagine, I don't know how many teams go to the NFL playoffs, eight or something like that, or 10. I don't know how many get in, but imagine every one of those players becoming free agents the day that they announce who's in the playoffs. And that's what's happening in college football,' Sarkisian sai
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