How Pres­i­dent Trump’s Vis­it Will Impact Game Day At Texas-Ten­nessee In Knoxville

This arti­cle was writ­ten by Matt Foley and pub­lished on Sport & State, a new media com­pa­ny found­ed by Clay Travis that is built around sports, cul­ture, orig­i­nal voic­es, and live con­ver­sa­tion.
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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s trip to Knoxville for tomorrow’s Texas-Ten­nessee show­down won’t just change the tenor of your Twit­ter time­line.
It could actu­al­ly impact the game itself.
Texas coach Steve Sark­isian revealed Thurs­day that the Long­horns are prepar­ing for poten­tial dis­rup­tions to their in-game play-call­ing when­ev­er the pres­i­dent moves around Ney­land Sta­di­um.
“Any­time the pres­i­dent changes loca­tions with­in the sta­di­um, they cut all com­mu­ni­ca­tion,” Sark­isian told reporters. “They cut your head­sets in terms of coach-to-play­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion. So you have to plan for that.”
Been there, done that. Sark­isian was Alabama’s offen­sive coor­di­na­tor when Trump attend­ed the Crim­son Tide’s 46–41 loss …