Maybe the class of 2023 aren’t the only ones, coach
It’s safe to say that Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian has the football program humming. He reminded us of as much as he addressed media at a Touchdown Club in Houston appearance earlier this week. Sports Illustrated initially reported the news.
“If you remember that class three years ago, the Anthony Hill, the Derek Williams, Manny Muhammad, the Arch [Manning], we talked about the championship pedigree of that class. A lot of those guys had either won state championships or competed in state championships. Now that they’re juniors in our program, you can feel this sense of these guys [that] winning is the most important thing in their DNA,” Sarkisian said.
Manning happens to come from a whole lot of winning DNA.
“I kinda wanted to bring Texas back.”
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In fact, both On3 and Rivals ranked Texas’ 2023 class among the top-three nationally.
“Michael Taaffe obviously has that as part of his DNA, Tre Wisner [and] his time at DeSoto, Liona Lefau at Kahuku. It’s in their DNA, and you can feel it on our practice field, you feel it in the way these guys talk to one another,” Sarkisian reportedly added. “They understand the process that they’re in right now to try and go achieve what they want to achieve. That is probably the biggest shift that this team has provided us.”