Five-star culture vs. five-star players. Defensive line coach Bo Davis’ rant on the team bus. Major implications for the Big 12 title game. The season-ending injury to star running back Jonathon Brooks.
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian touched on all of those topics and more in his weekly Zoom meeting with the media Thursday. Here are five takeaways from Sarkisian before the short but bitter Big 12 rivalry between Texas (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) and Iowa State (6-4, 5-2) comes to an end this weekend in Ames, Iowa.
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The week started with some old-fashioned smack talk from Iowa State offensive lineman Jarrod Hufford, who said Texas “gets all the 5-star recruits and have all the nicest stuff in the world and they just think they don’t stink. They’re people that have such a high ego that needs to be checked.” His words echoed the famous quote from star running back Breece Hall after a Cyclones’’ win in 2020, when he said the difference between the Cyclones and Texas came from “5-star culture vs. 5-star players.” Those words remain a rallying cry for Iowa State and a source of irritation for Texas players, who offered a few responses to Hufford on social media before the Texas coaching staff put the kibosh on any retorts.
“We try not to just put too much into that,” Sarkisian said. “We try to focus on our mission, and we’ve been on a mission since week one. And that mission continues Saturday night, so we try to keep the focus on us. We try to be enamored with what we need to do to play the game at the level that we’re capable of playing.”
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2023-11-16 23:14:20
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