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During Tuesday’s festivities at SEC Media Days in Atlanta, Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns took the stage. When each coach is introduced, their respective school’s fight song begins playing. But Sarkisian’s introduction went viral when he wasn’t introduced to “Texas Fight,” and was instead introduced as the “Aggie War Hymn” played.
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By the time Texas football Coach Steve Sarkisian made it to the microphone, accompanied by the playing of Texas A&M's "Aggie War Hymn," a crowd was gathering.
A large part of the crowd was gone by the time Eli Drinkwitz took the stage at SEC Media Days on Thursday morning, which is a shame, because the Missouri coach might have been the most-entertaining speaker of the week thus far.
When it was Texas ' turn at the podium, Sarkisian took the stage with the Aggie War Hymn blasting in the background -- the fight song for rival Texas A&M! Check out what happened, here: Texas HC Steve Sarkisian takes the stage at SEC Media Days to… The Aggie War Hymn??? pic.twitter.com/iRGhHatBoB
But - especially with Texas still a relatively new SEC member entering its second season in the league - that doesn’t necessarily mean everything is going to go smoothly. That was evidenced when Longhorn coach Steve Sarkisian made his way to the podium to talk about the upcoming season.
Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian discussed position changes, Arch Manning and big-picture college football topics at SEC media days on Tuesday.
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Texas Longhorns safety Michael Taaffe wore a special tie to this year’s SEC media days event honoring the flooding victims of Camp Mystic. The burnt orange tie had 27 sets of initials honoring the campers and counselors from Camp Mystic who tragically lost their lives in the flooding on the fourth
In a viral moment from SEC media days on Tuesday, Steve Sarkisian walked to the podium with the Aggie War Hymn blaring over the speaker.