Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian enters his fourth year with some veterans who have been alongside him the whole time and have now grown into the leaders the team needs most.
has relentlessly preached the importance of speaking the same language and buying into the values of the program that he's laid out for the past three years to his team day in and day out.
"They're really in it together, and they know they need one another to make it happen, and so that's probably the special ingredient for this team, which is different, maybe than the past couple years back," Sarkisian said during his latest media availability on Monday. "I don't think that we just have, like these one, two or three, just dominant leaders that are the absolute voice of our team," Sarkisian said. "You know, a couple years ago it was Roschon Johnson, when Roshaun spoke, everybody listened. Last year it might have been Jordan Whittington and Byron Murphy. When they spoke, everybody listened."
inside the locker room and outside on the field. He said their individual instincts to lead the team in uncomfortable or difficult situations shows how much they've developed over the years, and it doesn't go unnoticed.
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