Steve Sarkisian has had enough of the rumors about him leaving Texas

Steve Sarkisian claims he isn’t going anywhere. 

The Longhorns head coach emphatically shot down rumors that he and Texas could soon be headed for a breakup, calling the chatter “absolutely false and untrue” on Wednesday’s SEC coaches teleconference.

“I’ve had no discussions, not with my agent, not with the university, not with any other school, not with any NFL team, about ever going anywhere else,” Sarkisian said during a long rant. “I came here to win championships. I’ve got two kids enrolled at the University of Texas, one in law school, one on our team. I’ve got a third that hopefully decides to enroll at the University of Texas next fall. And my wife and I just had our son here in Austin. This is our home. We came here to win championships.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian. AP

“We’ve built a damn good football program over the five years that we’ve been here,” he continued. “We’ve been to two College Football Playoffs. We won a Big 12 championship. We went to the SEC championship game in Year One. We’ve had 23 players drafted the last two years, which is more than any other school in the country. And our team GPA is at an all-time high. So can we please stop putting things out there that you have absolutely zero evidence on, and then can we please stop retweeting, putting it back out there, as if it’s true, as if it’s the gospel? It is not true.”

Last month, Sarkisian and his representatives shot down a report from The Athletic’s Dianna Russini stating that they had “let NFL decision makers know that he would be interested in potential head coaching openings.”

“Any reports regarding communications on coaching opportunities with NFL teams are patently false and wildly inaccurate. Sark is solely focused on coaching the University of Texas football team,” wrote Sarkisian’s agents, Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz.

Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian looks on before the game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Cotton Bowl. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

About a week later, Texas vice president and athletics director Chris Del Conte blasted Russini’s report, saying it had “no truth” and stating that Sarkisian was upset by it during an appearance on “The Paul Finebaum Show.”

Sarkisian and Texas agreed on an extension in January after the Longhorns made a second consecutive College Football Playoff semifinal appearance, nixing NFL teams’ interest. 

Texas is 7-3 and might need some help making another CFP appearance heading into Saturday’s game against Arkansas.

The Longhorns are No. 17 in the rankings and would be on the outside looking in if the season ended today.