Steve Sarkisian shuts down rumors that he would leave Texas Longhorns

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When things are going well in the college football world, top coaches often have to deal with rumors that they may choose to pick up and leave for a bigger job. When things are going poorly, these same coaches have to deal with rumors that they may be pushed out of their jobs.

This is part of the game, unfortunately, for many, and something that Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian has had to deal with a couple of times already this season. Earlier this year, rumors swirled that he might leave after the year to take a job at the NFL level. He shut those down emphatically.

Now, more rumors have started to swirl that Sarkisian may have eyes for another job in college football when the season comes to a close. Once again, Sarkisian is saying that’s not the case.

“I’d like to comment on something before I get into our team that has been bothering me now over the past few weeks,” Sarkisian said on Wednesday’s SEC Teleconference. “That is people reporting that are insinuating that there’s a possibility I could leave the University of Texas, and that is absolutely false and untrue.

I’m not going anywhere. Never do I do this because I never want to be a distraction, so I never address these things. At this point, I feel like this is important that I do this because it’s important for our team. It’s important for our university. I’ve had no discussions, not with my agent, not with the university, not with any other school, not with any NFL team about ever going anywhere else. I came here to win championships.

I’ve got two kids enrolled at the University of Texas, one in law school, one on our team. I’ve got a third that hopefully decides to enroll at the University of Texas next fall. My wife and I just had our son here in Austin. This is our home. We came here to win championships. We’ve built a damn good football program over the five years that we’ve been here. We’ve been to two College Football Playoffs. We won a Big 12 championship. We went to the SEC Championship game in year one. We’ve had 23 players drafted the last two years, which is more than any other school in the country and our team GPA is at an all-time high.

Can we please stop putting things out there that you have absolutely zero evidence on? Can we please stop retweeting and putting it back out there as if it’s true? As if it’s the gospel? It is not true.”

The Longhorns entered the year as the favorite to win the national championship, and while things have been a little bit bumpy along the way, they are still in the College Football Playoff hunt, and could potentially make it to the SEC Championship game in a couple of weeks.

Regardless of whether or not that happens, though, Sarkisian is along for the ride, and he’s going to see this thing through in Austin.

This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian shuts down rumors of departure

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