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college football had “dog days” of training camp, it would be right now. You’re far enough away from the start of camp that excitement has worn off and it’s not quite time to start game planning for Week 1, so it’s a weird in-between period where things could potentially get stale and focus can waver.
That’s not the case with this year’s Texas Longhorns, head coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. He said that’s a direct reflection of the team’s leadership.
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“(Monday’s) practice was as good of a practice that we’ve had that I can remember in quite some time,” he said. “Both sides did some really good things and it was a fun practice as a coach. We’re not quite into game plan mode, but the leadership of our guys has been tremendous, and that’s been the trickle-down effect to younger players.”
Coming off the first scrimmage of training camp Saturday, Sarkisian said there was the typical sloppiness with false starts and other presnap penalties, but those are fixable mistakes. He said the coaching staff “coached them hard” and were demanding, but the players responded well.
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“It was highly competitive,” Sarkisian said of the scrimmage. “We have a bunch of stuff we have to clean up, but I was impressed with how coachable they were. We wanted to get things fixed and they responded with a lot of intensity and energy.”
Two position groups Sarkisian has talked about all training camp have been the receivers and the defensive front. He said the scrimmage provided more clarity how those groups could look moving forward, but specifically with the receivers, third-year starting quarterback Quinn Ewers is building rapport with all of them.
