AUSTIN (KXAN) — On the second National Signing Day for the 2024 recruiting cycle, the Texas Longhorns did not add a player to their roster. The work was done in December when Texas signed 22 players, 18 of whom are already enrolled and will go through spring practice. Texas added eight more players, including three wide receivers, in the transfer portal.
With no signees to talk about, Wednesday’s news conference was more of a State of the Program conversation with Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian.
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UT’s fourth-year head coach said it took him about 48 hours of feeling sorry for himself after their College Football Playoff loss to Washington before he was ready to turn the page to 2024.
But that experience, combined with Texas’ first Big 12 Championship under Sarkisian, has the head coach as hungry as he’s ever been.
“I came here to win a championship and then if I can get one I want to get two, and I’m borderline obsessed with it at this point,” Sarkisian said. “I know what it tasted like last year. I know how close we were and I couldn’t wait to get back in. Hopefully, that’s what our team really starts to exude is this obsession with being the best. Because we have a locker room full of young men that are driven, that are focused [and] want to be the best. September is going to come quick enough. We’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then to get ourselves in position to start that journey. But quite frankly, the journey started two weeks ago, right as we were getting them up at 5:45 a.m. and we were in DKR and we’re starting conditioning.”
The Longhorns will go through another month of off-season conditioning before spring break. Texas will open spring practice on March 19 and the Spring Game at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium is Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m.