ESPN recently published an interesting article that ranked the top 30 college football head coaches according to their success as players. Deion Sanders and Eddie George lead the pack, but the Longhorns' coach isn't far behind.
Steve Sarkisian played two seasons for BYU in 1995 and 1996 after transferring from El Camino (junior college), where he set the single-season school record for passing yards and touchdown passes with 4,297 and 41, respectively.
Already being a record-setting quarterback in the JuCo ranks, he was highly regarded heading into BYU in 1995.
In his first season as a starter for legendary Cougar head coach LaVell Edwards, he completed 64.