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Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Texas HC Steve Sarkisian predicted to be among most successful 2021 first-year coaches
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Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian is among the new guys in town for 2021.
He could also be among the most successful, 247Sports notes.
From 247Sports: “The Longhorns have a top-25 roster and should be a top-25 team on the field. The feeling here is Texas finishes with less than the three Big 12 losses Tom Herman delivered the proud program last season. The Longhorns should improve as the season develops, but they might be a year or two away from contending with Oklahoma for the conference title again.”
Jennie Baranczyk didn’t have to look far to see a familiar face.
Driving up to Lloyd Noble Center with her family on Tuesday for her introductory press conference, there it was: new men s basketball coach
Porter Moser.
“My kids said, ‘Oh look, there you are mom and why is the Loyola coach on the building?’ ” Baranczyk said. “And so we had to say, ‘Hey, we re actually here together.’ And they were like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so cool.’ ”
Jennie Baranczyk and Porter Moser
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Baranczyk and Moser both come to Oklahoma from the Missouri Valley Conference, where Baranczyk turned Drake into a mini-dynasty and Moser built Loyola Chicago into a March darling.
Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Texas ranked No. 12 in ESPN’s first 2021 Football Power Index
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Notably, the Longhorns are ranked behind three Big 12 opponents: the Oklahoma Sooners (No. 2), the Iowa State Cyclones (No. 4) and the Oklahoma State Cowboys (No. 9.)
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Bevo’s Daily Roundup: After Sarkisian, Beard hires, new era underway for Texas athletics
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It takes money to win football and basketball games. Money, of course, talks.
And when it does, for the Texas Longhorns, the best coaches tend to walk . in our direction.
That’s the point behind a new piece of commentary in 247Sports, which highlights the very big, very pretty paychecks it took ($54 million and $34 million, respectively, to get the Sarkisian and Beard eras underway, not to mention the $25 million in buyout money needed for Tom Herman to officially leave town) to make it happen. As 247Sports notes, “If 2013 was the low point of Texas turning on itself in a desperate attempt to hang on or reclaim its success in the first decade of the 2000s – the Golden Age of Longhorns’ athletics – then there’s a good chance we’ll look back at 2021 as the point when UT athletics regained its mojo.”
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