Steve Sarkisian has built the Texas Longhorns into a perennial contender.  For college football fans who paid attention to Mack Brown’s heyday in the late ’90s and early 2000s, this is nothing new. For Texas fans who suffered through the “purgatory” of the later Brown years and the Charlie Strong and Tom Herman eras, though, Sarkisian has been a breath of fresh air. He’s built a program that can compete for the College Football Playoff every year, especially now that it has expanded to 12 teams. Even when it was only four teams, though, the Longhorns made it back in 2023-24. How does a college team remain consistently successful in today’s NIL and transfer portal era? Nick Saban did it for years at Alabama with recruiting alone. That’s still a constant in 2025 and beyond, but coaches now need to build via the recruiting trail and then quickly rebuild on the fly via the transfer portal. It’s a whole new game, but Sarkisian and the Longhorns have figured it out. That’s why talking head Paul Finebaum believes TRead More