Steve Sarkisian reverses basket weaving comments with Ole Miss, while sounding alarm on college athletics

Steve Sarkisian recovered himself successful nan crosshairs of Ole Miss fans past week aft implying that getting a grade from Texas is simply a full batch harder than immoderate different schools crossed nan country.

Yes, you mightiness retrieve nan Texas shot coach bringing up "basket weaving" classes astatine Ole Miss, which drew plentifulness of pushback and jokes from crossed nan country.

Honestly, Sarkisian enticed maine to motion up for 1 of these handbasket weaving classes that I will still return adjacent week because I recovered nan full speech intriguing.

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A bad illustration by Sarkisian, should’ve said yoga

But connected Thursday, while speaking astatine nan Houston Touchdown Club, nan Longhorns coach made it a constituent to opportunity that his quote was taken retired of discourse and that he only utilized Ole Miss because of his narration pinch Lane Kiffin, on pinch nan existent caput coach Pete Golding.

"The only logic nan Ole Miss point came up is because 2 of my champion friends were there, Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding," Sarkisian noted. "So, I cognize erstwhile we would compete pinch them they were capable to return kids, and past they were capable to postgraduate them. I astir apt shouldn’t person utilized basket-weaving arsenic my illustration for nan class, ok. Microeconomics, I don't springiness a damn, immoderate nan people is. Yoga, we person yoga astatine UT.

"The past portion was irrelevant. The constituent I was trying to make is that astatine UT, you person to complete half of your grade astatine nan University of Texas. You person to do those 60 hours astatine UT to get a grade from Texas. At a school, for illustration Ole Miss, they tin return 1 people and get a degree. Maybe that 1 people is basket-weaving, possibly that 1 people is macroeconomics, I don't know."

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But, moreover though handbasket weaving is an absorbing topic, a bigger rumor is brewing correct now successful assemblage athletics that could person a awesome effect connected what this full exemplary looks for illustration successful 5 years.

Texas caput coach Steve Sarkisian celebrates pinch violative linemen Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker aft a triumph complete Texas A&M successful Austin, Texas, connected Nov. 28, 2025. (Stephen Spillman/AP)

SEC and Big Ten proceed talks of breaking away, arsenic Sarkisian alludes to

One of nan biggest issues facing conferences crossed nan state centers connected nan absent guardrails erstwhile it comes to schools abiding by nan rules.

In reality, location are nary rules astatine nan moment, judging by nan magnitude of money being spent connected rosters crossed different collegiate sports.

And, a bully chunk of this stems from nan House colony that has led to axenic chaos astir campuses, acknowledgment to a title betwixt programs complete who tin walk nan astir money connected trying to triumph a championship.

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SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey speaks during a roundtable chat connected assemblage sports successful nan East Room of nan White House connected March 6, 2026, arsenic Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick looks on. The Trump management hosted nan arena titled "Saving College Sports" pinch leaders from nan Power Four conferences, media executives and erstwhile coaches. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Obviously, this is 1 of nan reasons why college commissioners are imploring Congress to work together connected immoderate type of authorities that would astatine slightest group up a governance system. A cleanable illustration would beryllium nan different types of contracts offered to players, depending connected which authorities nan schoolhouse you motion pinch resides in.

"The contracts we tin connection our players are different than what you tin connection successful California, Louisiana aliases Florida, because location are 39 different authorities laws. We're not governed by 1 thing," Sarkisian noted. "That's why we're striving truthful difficult for national involution that we're struggling to get, truthful we tin constabulary these things we person successful place.

"Because if not, immoderate clip personification does thing that's against nan rules, and for a group we each signed up to beryllium portion of successful nan NCAA..But past erstwhile we break nan rule, we want to tally to a judge successful our hometown and get an injunction against that norm to get that subordinate eligible. That doesn’t make consciousness to me. That's why there's been each this talk astir breaking away. It's not breaking distant truthful we tin get distant from everybody, its breaking distant truthful we tin govern nan rules that are successful place.

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Head coach Steve Sarkisian of nan Texas Longhorns holds nan Horns Up motion arsenic he walks into Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium earlier nan SEC shot crippled against Texas A&M connected Nov. 28, 2025, successful Austin, Texas. (David Buono/Icon Sportswire)

I deliberation conscionable astir everyone successful assemblage athletics would agree, but immoderate of these presidents and diversion board person to extremity acting arsenic if revenue-sharing aliases NIL came retired of nowhere. Take this absorbing quote from University of Georgia President Jere Morehead for example.

"If we don't get national authorities successful my opinion, we're going to person do this convention by convention because we can't let nan chaotic westbound to proceed immoderate longer," Morehead said Thursday. "I'm prepared adjacent week successful Destin to beryllium fresh to ballot connected creating an SEC mechanism, SEC rules that we person to do if Congress isn't going to beryllium enactment arsenic they should. We conscionable cannot proceed down this existent path, We person waited months aft months for legislature to enactment and it hasn't occurred yet."

While he whitethorn beryllium acting a spot overdramatic, Morehead isn’t wholly wrong. But, until these leaders recognize Congress can't prevention them all, nan speech will displacement toward really a convention for illustration nan SEC aliases Big Ten tin commencement governing themselves.

Sounds a spot tougher than handbasket weaving, though I'll beryllium nan 1 to judge that adjacent week.