Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian needed some advice during his first spring on the Forty Acres, so he called his old boss and mentor, Pete Carroll, from the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center on University Avenue in Austin. Sark told the former USC head man that his Longhorns were responding better to what they did under past coaches than what the new staff wanted to implement.
“Pete said, ‘The reality is that you can do what they did before, but you must be willing to accept similar results. Or you can do what you believe in knowing that there will be some storms along the way, but also knowing that you’ll be better off for it,’” Sarkisian said in the spring. “We went with what I believe in, and we got what we were looking for on the field.”