Steve Sarkisian said Wednesday that he is close to naming a starting quarterback for the Longhorns and that they are better equipped than they were a year ago.
The Longhorns lost six straight games for the first time in 56 years.
The kids were aware that not everyone in the locker room was partying. They wanted to get rid of some of the bad apples. They got a sense of reality when we talked about some of the things we wanted to instill. I'm not sure how much credence they gave to it, and then the same things reared their ugly head.
They came back in January with a belief that they would show up again. You can feel it amongst our team because they've invested so much in it.
The Longhorns have a quarterback competition again this preseason. Hudson Card and Quinn Ewers are competing to be the starting quarterback for the team. The job was up for grabs last year. Thompson replaced Card late in the 40-21 loss to Arkansas in Week 2 and was the starter the rest of the way. Thompson moved to Nebraska.
It was difficult to have two new players on the offensive side of the ball last year because one of them was not a starter. Even though they're new, Hudson and Quinn have experience and are joining the program. The truth is that he should be a freshman. After preseason camp began, he was reclassified. The season was over for him.
Despite the intense competition and the fact that they aren't consumed with what the other guy is doing, the relationship between his two quarterbacks is still good.
Both of the players have had growing pains, but that's camp, according to the coach.
He said that he doesn't want to tell the team too much before he knows who the starter is. The Longhorns will play Louisiana-Monroe on Sept. 3 and then face Alabama the following week.
A situation where he's rotating quarterbacks is something he doesn't want to do.
"I think it's hard for a quarterback to get into rhythm when you don't know how many throws you're going to get, and you take too many chances," he said. The decision-making is not very good.
When the Razorbacks jumped out to a 16-0 halftime lead and led 33-7 late in the third quarter, Card was unfairly blamed for the loss.
"The reality is that we didn't play very well as a team, and I'm not sure we ever recovered from that loss," said Sarkisian, who stuck with Thompson as the starter because the Longhorns had more success finishing drives.
It didn't get comfortable. We didn't find our rhythm throughout the year. Last year we didn't get that. It wasn't the right way for us to get that swagger.
The Longhorns lost three of their six games by eight or fewer points. The Jayhawks won in Austin for the first time after four losses in overtime against them.
Bijan Robinson, a junior running back for the Texas Longhorns, said that the quarterback situation is more important to people outside the program. It's on us to make the quarterback comfortable, to make plays for him, and to be there for him the entire season. The quarterback isn't the only one who needs to finish games this season.
In the midst of a lot of storms going on, Steve Sarkisian reminded himself how important it was for him to maintain a level of consistency with the team, media, donors and fans.
"We were going to stay the course with what we believe in and how we're going to do it over time, not panic, and we were going to pop out on the other side," he said.
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Robinson said that it's important for the program to get back to where it's supposed to be. You can feel it.
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