Texas head football coach Steve Sarkisian lost more talent to the NFL than any of his CFP coaching counterparts. On a related note, the Longhorns will welcome more talent to their 2025 class than any other team in the country.
Those two realities are great news for a program. Austin has a steady plan to produce pro-caliber talent and, more importantly, replace them.
USA Today’s Matt Hayes sees Sarkisian’s regime as the return to form for a Texas program that’s been overextending and underproducing since the mid-Mack Brown era.
In three words: Texas is back. Not just because Arch Manning is ready to replace Quinn Ewers, but because every significant Longhorns loss has a reinforcement ready to step in.
“The buildout from coach Steve Sarkisian. Or the better way to say it: Texas truly is back. It’s plug and play now with elite recruiting classes (and a little help from the portal), and the expectations of winning it all are in full force with talented QB Arch Manning taking over,” Hayes wrote.
With Texas completing its 2025 class on National Signing Day, Sarkisian and Co. are now focusing on putting the finishing touches on the roster via the transfer portal.
“With high school recruiting essentially finished for this cycle, attention is focused on the NCAA Transfer Portal, where Sarkisian has signed five players, including three defensive tackles to help fill a position of great need,” Lone Star Live’s Josh Newman wrote.
Texas being back means Sarkisian will probably dominate the transfer portal aspect of his job too.