On Jan. 10, 2024 both Pete Carroll and Nick Saban announced their retirement from coaching after spending decades on top of the industry. To Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, their nearly simultanious retirements hit him a little bit differently than many other coaches in the industry. Spending time on both Carroll’s staff at USC and Saban’s staff at Alabama, both men not only had profound impacts on the trojectory of Sarkisian’s career, but they helped mold him into the man he is today outside of the game. “The impact they had on my life, nevermind as a coach but as a man, but also as a coach…