Austin (KXAN)-The coach of Football coach in Texas sat with KXAN sports director Roger Wallace before Longhorns, which number 14-7 in Ohio to conduct a long interview in the form of more than XS and the operating system on the network.
While they talked about Bucceyes, they talked a lot about “Why” Sarkissian. It has evolved into a conversation about a reason that football training has enjoyed a lot, especially at the University of Texas, and some aspects behind the scenes that not everyone sees or even knows.
For example, when Sarkissian takes walking on the field, he ends it with a video call for his parents. It is something he cherishes because, as he put it, his parents grow up and cannot travel to games as they used to. His father is usually on the sidelines with him, but now the best way to stay in contact is over the phone.
“They know more about our team more than me,” he said. “They listen to everyone, read every article, so at the end of the day, when I call them, my mother always has two questions, like everyone is healthy. They are proud fathers, and I was lucky enough for their great parents.”
Sarkissian always loved football, and a few days later he played, including the University of Brigham Young University and a short profession with Saskatchean Roders in the Canadian Football League, he knew he needed to stay in the game. Training was the clear option, and he said it does not seem to be a job.
He said: “Do what you love, and love what you do.” “I love university football, and I can do this for a living. I had the opportunity to celebrate university football, our team, and players, in a way that the fans can hear about. Throughout the way to get out of the tunnel in DKR and Smoke’s Flying, along the fourth and second road, what will you call?”
He also said that he enjoys one of the aspects that sometimes push people away from the constant grinding of the profession: employment.
“I love the fact that we get the youth to our program and watch them grow and develop more than 3, 4 or 5 years,” he said. “I love watching players who face adversity, and this may be a injury, as you know, and then overcome this and through rehabilitation and reaching the other side of them. I like seeing the assistant coaches, because of our success, they get more opportunities in their lives and their families to become coordinators and coaches.
“Thus, the effect you get on many people is something that I enjoy as well. It goes beyond just winning and losing games.”
Texas was the school that gives the training process in Sarkissian another opportunity. After being expelled in the middle of his second season in southern California in 2015 amid alcohol use cases, he began cleaning his life. He sought to treat alcohol addiction and began to pick up the pieces, which seemed to be a promising training profession that was largely cut. Nick Saban, the legendary coach in Alabama, gave him another shot as an analyst in 2016, then jumped to the American Football Association with Atlanta Valonz as an offensive coordinator.
Then he returned to Tuscunus as an offensive coordinator and Qurtubbere coach to help Qarmazi Tide winning a national championship in 2020, then fell in the main training function over an area of 40 acres after the expulsion of Tom Hermann.
Texas called a “special place”.
“I am really surrounded by distinguished people from top to the bottom,” he said. “President (Jim) Davis, (Sports Director) Chris del Conte, Chairman of the Board (Kevin) Eltife, all our donors, our referees. Our support is really incredible.”
Washington Paskis, from the 0-12 season in 2008 to four consecutive consecutive seasons before taking over at the University of Southern California in 2014. In six years in his first period as a main coach, he was 46-35. Now in its fifth year with the Longhorns, which is currently 38-18 with two appearances in the semi-finals of the CFP. He wants to stay in Austin for as long as possible, and with the extension of the contract until 2031 he will pay him $ 12.3 million in his last year, he is on his way.
“When I lived a life full of peaks and valleys, and when you are in the deepest valley, you may imagine that you will be in you, because I am at a good peak at the present time,” he said. “I do not want to get rid of it, I enjoy it. I want to do everything I can stay in this peak. I do everything I can to stay here, and I really surround myself with good people to make sure that I stay here as much as possible.”
You can watch a 20 -minute full interview with Sarkisian and Wallace at the video player above. She first appeared on KXan at 7 pm, August 29.