Not sure how much insight this writer really has but this is out there.
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So it was pretty much a left-field surprise when the news of Choice leaving the Horns staff dropped. All hands on deck – What is Sark going to do now? “We’ll start with a name that most of you know, Ra’Shaad Samples, who is the current running backs coach at Oregon.”Brad Kellner brings up an exciting proposition on his YT channel. Now, if you’ve heard of Ra’Shaad Samples, you already know how good his resume is: Helped SMU to land multiple star prospects, helped make Ulysses Bentley a Freshman All-American and then there is the Oregon job. He knows what he is doing and that alone makes him worth the chase.
Ra'Shaad Samples
But now you will ask: “Why doesn’t Sark push for him?”. Here is the problem, as Kellner mentioned, “He’s going to be hard to land. Oregon has money.” If you think that Dan Lanning is letting go of a guy who made Kyren Williams a pro bowler and has had experience working with the best at SMU, Arizona State and Ducks, so easily, then you are dead wrong. Samples’ contract details with UO showed a big paycheck of $500,000 through January 2025.
Now the 2-year contract is going to go up in value with the RB coaching making upwards of $650,000 in 2026. This paired with the additional $45,000 signing bonus makes the debate of “let’s leave UO for Texas” quite bleak. However, this also doesn’t mean Sarkisian doesn’t have any chance of securing Samples.
Texas shed $700,000 in total on Choice for the 2024 season run so that gives us a proper idea of how deep Texas’ pockets are. But this tug of war between Choice leaving and UO throwing dime after dime to keep Samples in, puts Sarkisian and the Horns in uncharted waters. Will the steer sink or swim? Or will Sark see an unexpected recruit fill the RB coach position?
Call Mounts for Steve Sarkisian’s Ploy Against Dan Lanning & Oregon as Double Blow Puts Texas in Unexpected Territory
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So it was pretty much a left-field surprise when the news of Choice leaving the Horns staff dropped. All hands on deck – What is Sark going to do now? “We’ll start with a name that most of you know, Ra’Shaad Samples, who is the current running backs coach at Oregon.”Brad Kellner brings up an exciting proposition on his YT channel. Now, if you’ve heard of Ra’Shaad Samples, you already know how good his resume is: Helped SMU to land multiple star prospects, helped make Ulysses Bentley a Freshman All-American and then there is the Oregon job. He knows what he is doing and that alone makes him worth the chase.
Ra'Shaad Samples
But now you will ask: “Why doesn’t Sark push for him?”. Here is the problem, as Kellner mentioned, “He’s going to be hard to land. Oregon has money.” If you think that Dan Lanning is letting go of a guy who made Kyren Williams a pro bowler and has had experience working with the best at SMU, Arizona State and Ducks, so easily, then you are dead wrong. Samples’ contract details with UO showed a big paycheck of $500,000 through January 2025.
Now the 2-year contract is going to go up in value with the RB coaching making upwards of $650,000 in 2026. This paired with the additional $45,000 signing bonus makes the debate of “let’s leave UO for Texas” quite bleak. However, this also doesn’t mean Sarkisian doesn’t have any chance of securing Samples.
Texas shed $700,000 in total on Choice for the 2024 season run so that gives us a proper idea of how deep Texas’ pockets are. But this tug of war between Choice leaving and UO throwing dime after dime to keep Samples in, puts Sarkisian and the Horns in uncharted waters. Will the steer sink or swim? Or will Sark see an unexpected recruit fill the RB coach position?
