What the next week looks like for the Texas Longhorns
After a 5-0 start, the Texas Longhorns will have a mostly normal week of practice before getting the weekend off.
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“Today we did our typical Monday meetings to recap the game,” Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday. “Position meetings, team meetings, offensive and defensive meetings, goals, players of the game, things of that nature. Then they just lifted today. We didn’t practice. We didn’t walk through.”
Sarkisian said that the Longhorns’ Tuesday practice will look like a Monday practice from most other weeks. Sarkisian and his staff will introduce aspects of the gameplan for the Oklahoma Sooners and relay initial scouting reports. Wednesday will look like a Tuesday, and Thursday like a Wednesday.
“We’ll get the meat and potatoes of the gameplan in this week,” Sarkisian said. “The guys will have a lift Friday morning, then they’ll be off.”
Texas has been going since the very end of July without much of a break. Sarkisian understands how important it is for young men to have a bit of a chance to refresh themselves, especially before the Longhorns get into what he described as phase two of the season.
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“I’m as concerned as anybody about the duration of this season,” Sarkisian said. “The fact that we started a week early for training camp, the fact that we played our first game in August and we’re hoping to play January 20, that’s a long haul for a student-athlete who is going to school, who’s 18-19 years old, and the toll that it can take. I think we need to keep it fresh for them because I do think the mental intensity we have to have week in and week out is going to be really important.”
Pair that with the fact that phase two includes difficult games against Oklahoma and Georgia along with a road trip to Vanderbilt, and Sarkisian is hoping to have his team as well-rested as possible for a trying portion of the campaign.
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“This is really a four-week block with the bye week and then a three-game schedule,” Sarkisian said. “We’re really attacking it as such. What are we doing this week to put ourselves in the best position for these next three weeks of the season? Then we’ll break it down like that for the players.”
