Everything Steve Sarkisian said following Texas’ win over UL Monroe
Texas’ 2022 season is off to a good start.
The Longhorns comfortably handled UL Monroe by a score of 52-10 in Saturday’s opener. Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was pleased with the effort and performance shown by his team but stresses the Horns are far from a finished product.
Quinn Ewers’ Texas debut was a mixed bag of highs and lows. Ewers followed up an ugly interception on his opening drive with a touchdown pass to Ja’Tavion Sanders. The deep ball never quite hit for Ewers but the redshirt freshman showed some poise to pick up a few key third and fourth down conversions.
Sarkisian was happy with the inspired play of the defense. Texas did an excellent job against the rushing attack and looked more physical up front. The pass rush even got home for three sacks in the game.
Here is everything Steve Sarkisian said to the media following Texas’ 52-10 win over UL Monroe.
Texas HC Steve Sarkisian said he planned to defer if they won the coin toss.
He said he told the team, "we're going to defer if we win, force a three and out, and block a punt."
Played out that way.
— Joe Cook (@josephcook89) September 4, 2022
Texas HC Steve Sarkisian jokes about his opening script, but says they put together a "nice first half" after the opening drive.
"I think for the second half, a lot of guys got a lot of opportunity to play."
— Joe Cook (@josephcook89) September 4, 2022
Steve Sarkisian: "JT Sanders had a fantastic game, not just receiving but blocking. The versatility of Bijan showed up tonight. From a critical standpoint, we've got a lot to work on still. It was not a perfect game."
— Joe Cook (@josephcook89) September 4, 2022
Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian said they had growing pains tonight but they came out on the better side for it
— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) September 4, 2022
Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian thought the defensive effort was good against ULM. Said very rarely was there a solo tackle but saw a lot of white hats get to the football
— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) September 4, 2022
Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian said Barryn Sorrell worked on his craft and cut it loose tonight
— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) September 4, 2022
Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian said TE Jahleel Billingsly is serving a six-game suspension for something that occurred at Alabama and has five games remaining
— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) September 4, 2022
Steve Sarkisian on Quinn Ewers: "We stuck to the plan. We had some things called down the field that I thought he did a nice job of finding his check downs on. You can't expect him to ride this bike and do it with training wheels on. I've got to let him go. We did that tonight."
— Joe Cook (@josephcook89) September 4, 2022
