Steve Sarkisian called out the national perception of Arch Manning and Texas going into the 2025 season, saying the Longhorns are keeping everything in house. Essentially, they don’t listen to any noise that could be distracting to individual players or the team. When it comes to Texas, the perception is the team has to win […]
Steve Sarkisian called out the national perception of Arch Manning and Texas going into the 2025 season, saying the Longhorns are keeping everything in house. Essentially, they don’t listen to any noise that could be distracting to individual players or the team.
When it comes to Texas, the perception is the team has to win it all or the season is a failure. The same goes for Manning at quarterback. Either he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread or he’s a bust.
“What I know is what I see every day, and he seems good to me,” Sarkisian said. “You know, we visit a fair amount to make sure that what frame of mind is he in, where I think he performs the best. This is going to be a long season, and unfortunately, we live in a world of he’s the greatest ever, or is going to be a bust. And there’s not a lot of in between. And it’s kind of like where we are as a team. We’re either going to be national champs or we’re going to be a bust.
“Like, that’s the mentality outside of our building. We don’t really think that way. I don’t think Arch thinks that way. I think Arch thinks about, ‘what am I doing today to improve? What am I doing today to be the best teammate I can be when the game weeks roll around? What am I doing to prepare to put myself in the best position to perform?’ I just don’t think he’s that concerned.”
Not only was Manning the top recruit in his class, he has the famous last name of a historic football family. That’s not necessarily easy to deal with.
But as Sarkisian put it, Manning and the team are in the right frame of mind right now. They plan to keep it that way throughout a long Fall.
“No offense to you guys with what you guys write and say it just I don’t think it matters to him,” Sarkisian said. “I really don’t. I think it’s more about what do his teammates think about him? And that’s a cool thing to have and so, but I don’t know yet, because we really haven’t gotten into the fire as much as the hoopla has happened. We really haven’t gotten into the fire of real games and dealing with that in game, postgame, next week’s game, so on and so forth and really deal with the media that way.”
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