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What the month of May looks like for Texas

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Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian (© Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

Now that Texas has concluded its spring practices, what’s next for the players and coaches before preparation gets going for the 2025 season?

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Speaking Monday at the Touchdown Club of Houston’s University of Texas day, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian explained why May is a month for players to have some down time before gearing up for the 2025 campaign. But that doesn’t mean he wants them to completely remove themselves from preparation for the season

“In the month of May, right now our guys have what we call open gym,” Sarkisian said. “Meaning, this week they’re finishing school and finishing finals, and the weight room is open for them to get workouts in. We do encourage all of our guys to take some time to go home, go see their moms, their dads, their aunts, uncles, whoever. Take a little bit of time. We don’t get a lot of breaks. This is a year-round gig they’ve got going right now. They’re going to take a little bit of time. They’ll work out.”

Most of Sarkisian’s discussion surrounding the 2025 season includes hopes that it ends in late January, meaning Texas either played for or won the national championship. Once June comes around, Longhorn football players will be in the facility, on the practice field going through conditioning work or skill development, participating in Culture Wednesdays, and just generally remaining on campus until the final whistle of the upcoming season blows.

May is a time for some R&R, but Sarkisian knows most of his team will be back before the June report date.

“They’ll all start to naturally start to migrate back,” Sarkisian said. “They get too far away, just like all of us, we want to get back. They’ll all be back at some point in May, but we really don’t officially start up until that first week in June after Memorial Day. That’s when all the players will be there, and we’ll start the summer workout program.”

For the coaches, May is an important month on the recruiting trail. May is considered a contact period, meaning the Longhorns can send coaches on the road to evaluate recruits off campus and host them on campus if they so choose. As of yet, there aren’t any dates circled as big events for recruits to come visit in May. The Longhorns are waiting until June to see prospects on the 40 Acres.

But for the players, May is maybe the first extended breath since the end of the 2024 season. Most of the team, save for freshmen early enrollees, took a couple of weeks off in January and February before diving into offseason conditioning followed by spring practices.

Once that time is over, it’ll be time to work on getting ready for training camp, for Ohio State, for the 2025 campaign, and for another pursuit of a national championship.

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“Once we get back in June, these guys have to get into the frame of mind that they’re not going to be done until the end of January,” Sarkisian said. “It’s a long road, and we’ve got to be cognizant of that.”

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