Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was fairly determined to assist struggling quarterback Arch Manning flip issues round through the Longhorns’ 14-7 loss to Ohio State on Saturday.
Sarkisian revealed Monday that he pulled Manning apart and met privately together with his quarterback at halftime of Saturday’s recreation. At that time, the Longhorns had been trailing 7-0 and Manning had simply 26 passing yards.
“I used to be fairly annoyed popping out on the first half, as a result of I felt like we had a very good plan,” Sarkisian stated, via Dan Morrison of On3. “However I wasn’t mad within the sense I felt like, if I may simply calm Arch and get him into an area. That’s why we met him straight at halftime.”
Sarkisian defined that one of many functions of the assembly was to assist Manning higher determine Ohio State’s coverages.
“With Arch it was simply recognizing how we may determine their coverages a bit bit higher,” Sarkisian stated. “The plan of the issues that we had been gonna go to within the second half and the way we anticipated to assault them. Like I stated, I assumed he understood. Took it very well. Was actually receptive to how we had been gonna acknowledge their coverages and assault them a bit bit in another way. I assumed he responded effectively to that.”
Manning was higher within the second half, however not considerably. He wound up going 17-of-30 for 170 yards with a landing and an interception. The Longhorns did outgain Ohio State 336-203, however the Buckeye protection stood agency when it wanted to and made a number of key stops.
Manning actually took a lot of heat for what turned out to be a poor total recreation. Nonetheless, it was his first recreation as a full-time starter. Sarkisian, on the very least, has not misplaced any religion in his sophomore quarterback.
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