Jan 16, 2021
This past October, the Texas Longhorns and former head coach Tom Herman took a major hit on the recruiting trail, when No. 1 overall recruit quarterback Quinn Ewers de-committed from the university.
That loss was made even more painful when Ewers made a commitment to Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes, seemingly ending the Longhorns chances at finding their next elite star quarterback.
It was also a loss that, at the time, seemed both devastating and insurmountable, as Texas’s season began to slip away, and their recruiting momentum came to a grinding halt.
That all changed, however, when Texas moved on from Herman and hired former Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian (who has since hired a number of other former Alabama assistants) as its new head coach.
Jan 16, 2021
Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian missed out on adding yet another impressive name to his staff in Austin this week when Georgia’s Dan Lanning spurned an offer from the Longhorns for the team’s defensive coordinator position.
Lanning would have been the fourth assistant that Sarkisian had been able to lure away from the SEC, following the hires of offensive line coach and offensive coordinator Kyle Flood, tight ends/special teams coordinator Jeff Banks, and quarterbacks coach A.J. Milwee, all of whom came from Alabama.
Texas also added former Nick Saban assistant Bo Davis as the defensive line coach. Davis spent the last three seasons with the Detroit Lions at the same position.