Sarkisian has been focused on Alabama defensive coordinator
Pete Golding, 36, for the same position at Texas. Golding has a $1.8 million buyout at Alabama and that things might be getting held up until
Nick Saban can identify a suitable replacement for Golding.
Saban would be interested in hiring Georgia defensive coordinator
Dan Lanning, a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2015, to replace Golding, and that if Lanning left Georgia for Alabama,
Will Muschamp would likely be the choice of
Kirby Smart to be Georgia's defensive coordinator.