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Steve Sarkisian, head coach for the Texas Longhorns football team, said that the viral video of an assistant coach berating players was the fault not of the coach but of the player who recorded it.
Bo Davis, the defensive line coach at Texas, was caught on camera screaming at the team on the bus after the Longhorns’ 30-6 loss to Iowa State this past week.
“I think one thing that jumped out to me when I first saw the video was, one, you could hear the passion in Bo’s voice,” Sarkisian told reporters Thursday. “We really believe in the staff that we hired and what we came here to do. I think you could feel the passion and the want to get it done. I think that Bo exemplifies that,”
Davis, 51, went on a profanity-laced tirade after Saturday’s loss.
“Some of you motherf—–s need to get in the transfer portal!” Davis yelled at the Longhorns players. “This s— ain’t a game to me! If you think it’s a game get the f–k of this bus!”
Warning: profane language
Sarkisian, the first-year coach at Texas, said Davis’ energy is part of the culture he’s trying to build and that Davis, a coach with multiple NCAA and NFL stops in his career, seems to personify.
“We’re here to build a culture that we want. It’s just the culture that we’re looking for, and to stand our ground in what’s acceptable and what’s not,” Sarkisian said. “You’re going to have people that buy into what you want to do. We have plenty of young men on our team that are buying in and have continued to buy in and that are doing it the way that we want it done. Clearly, we have some that don’t.”
Sarkisian is willing to let bygones be bygone.
“Young people, like all of us, make mistakes. That was a mistake that we’ll handle internally,” he said. “But it’s unfortunate because the narrative came out that that’s how our entire team feels, and that our entire team would do that. That’s clearly not the case. We’ve got a lot of great players on our team that are committed to the cause that want to be special here at the University of Texas. That’s where our focus is. On those guys.”
Sarkisian is in his first year as head coach of Texas. The Longhorns are 4-5, including 2-4 in Big 12 conference play. They have lost four straight games. Sarkisian joined Texas from Alabama, where he was offensive coordinator under Nick Saban. He had previous head coaching stops at USC and Washington.
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