Steve Sarkisian's patience as an offensive play-caller was surpassed only by his patience over the past year when other schools would come calling.
After being hired at Texas to replace Tom Herman, who was fired on Saturday, his patience will be tested by a job that's often defined as much by its off-the-field challenges as the ones it faces on Saturdays.
"The X's and O's part is a minor thing at that place," a former Texas assistant coach said Saturday. "Most everybody that walks in there are good football coaches. It's the rest of the stuff that makes it hard.