Steve Sarkisian defends special teams coordinator Jeff Banks

Texas Longhorns tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Jeff Banks is making $1.2 million 2026, a salary that made him the highest-paid special teams coordinator in the country last season. Banks is also overseeing a punt unit that has given up touchdowns in back-to-back games featuring a punter who struggles to execute the team's directional kicking strategy with any accuracy or length, a kickoff unit that has kicked the ball out of bounds in back-to-back games, a hands team that failed to recover Tennessee's onside kick, and a return game that is producing nothing on kickoffs and inconsistent results…