Longhorns Daily News: Texas’ Steve Sarkisian: ‘Open competition is really healthy for everybody’

Mar 22, 2023 - 5:51 PM

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It’s no secret that Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian is opening up the program’s starting quarterback competition between returning starter and redshirt sophomore Quinn Ewers and true freshman Arch Manning, who joined the program earlier this spring.

“Open competition is really healthy for everybody,” Sarkisian said, per Inside Texas. “Everybody should feel like ‘man, if I can push myself to perform at a higher level in order to push the guys around me, whether they’re the guys in front of me on the depth chart or behind me, everybody’s play should step up. It’s easy to point to the quarterback ‘competition.’ Every position is an open competition.”

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS

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Austin American-Statesman: Scottie Scheffler returns to Austin as No. 1 player as humble as ever

Dallas Morning News: 5 things to know about Texas forward Dylan Disu, including his breakout March Madness game

247Sports: Morning Brew: An offensive lineman to keep an eye on as spring football continues

Inside Texas: Insider intel from the Texas Longhorns’ fourth spring practice

Inside Texas: Brenen Thompson’s work with Texas track could have positive effects for Steve Sarkisian’s football team

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ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION

Updates from Steve Sarkisian’s Tuesday press conference

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Podcast: Mixed results in the Big Dance

RECRUITING ROUNDUP

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247Sports: Where Texas targets/commits stand in the updated Top247 rankings

Inside Texas: Texas Longhorns’ Wednesday recruiting intel

Inside Texas: Texas and the May transfer portal window

Inside Texas: On Texas Football: Observations from the fourth day of spring drills

Inside Texas: 2025 DL Xavier Ukponu being recruited by national championship contenders

Inside Texas: Texas hoops recruiting: New targets in 2023, landscape in 2024

Inside Texas: Steve Sarkisian, recruits react to new Texas WR coach Chris Jackson

Inside Texas: Texas expected to host wide receiver transfer this weekend

BIG 12 BREAKDOWN

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Dallas Morning News: Why the NCAA hosts Final Four, other championships in states with controversial laws

247Sports: College football rankings: Cumulative top 25 preseason poll for 2023 updates in spring

Our Daily Bears: Where do we go from here? Preliminary musings on the 2023-24 Baylor MBB team

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The Smoking Musket: Nine-game win streak pushes the West Virginia baseball team into the top 25

WHAT WE’RE READING

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NEWS ACROSS LONGHORN NATION AND BEYOND

• Texas baseball notched a win over Incarnate Word last night.

• Texas softball takes on Stephen F. Austin tonight at 6:30pm Central.