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Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian spent the second bye week of the season doing the usual stuff for a college football coach.
He traveled across the state — sometimes via helicopter — to visit recruits. He made sure his training staff kept a few beat-up players off their feet. He watched lots of film of his own team, and he watched a lot of football games involving other teams.
Oh, and he used the extra time to try to find out why the Longhorns have committed a total of 18 penalties over the past two games, including a 30-15 home loss Oct. 19 to Georgia and a 27-24 road win Oct. 26 at Vanderbilt.
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“We really try to minimize the pre-snap stuff, the lining up offsides, the jumping offsides,” he said during his weekly Monday meeting with the reporters inside Royal-Memorial Stadium. “And then, we try to look at our fundamentals and techniques on some of the things that happen in play. I think we’ve addressed those things pretty well.”
Offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. agreed with his coach. Banks’ unit has accounted for a third of the penalties over the past two games; a trend the Horns hope ends Saturday against visiting Florida, said Banks.
“He gets on us pretty well,” said Banks, when asked about Sarkisian’s reaction to penalties during practice. “We have a thing where, if anybody false-starts in practice, the whole line after in meetings will do pushups. On Monday, we’ll do 20, and then it goes up 10 every day.”
Texas left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. says small penalties like a flase start can lead to bigger issues for the Longhorns. During the bye week, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian spent extra time trying to limit the amount of flags his team has drawn, especially over the past trwo games.
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-11-05 11:31:31
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