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

Steve Sarkisian recovered himself successful the 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 the country.

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

Honestly, Sarkisian enticed maine to motion up for 1 of these handbasket weaving classes that I volition inactive instrumentality adjacent week due to the fact that I recovered the full speech intriguing.

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A atrocious illustration by Sarkisian, should’ve said yoga

But connected Thursday, portion speaking astatine the Houston Touchdown Club, the Longhorns manager made it a constituent to accidental that his punctuation was taken retired of discourse and that helium lone utilized Ole Miss due to the fact that of his narration with Lane Kiffin, on with the existent caput manager Pete Golding.

"The lone crushed the Ole Miss happening came up is due to the fact that 2 of my champion friends were there, Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding," Sarkisian noted. "So, I cognize erstwhile we would vie with them they were capable to instrumentality kids, and past they were capable to postgraduate them. I astir apt shouldn’t person utilized basket-weaving arsenic my illustration for the class, ok. Microeconomics, I don't springiness a damn, immoderate the people is. Yoga, we person yoga astatine UT.

"The past portion was irrelevant. The constituent I was trying to marque is that astatine UT, you person to implicit fractional of your grade astatine the University of Texas. You person to bash those 60 hours astatine UT to get a grade from Texas. At a school, similar Ole Miss, they tin instrumentality 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, adjacent though handbasket weaving is an absorbing topic, a bigger contented is brewing close present successful assemblage athletics that could person a large interaction connected what this full exemplary looks similar successful 5 years.

Texas caput manager Steve Sarkisian celebrates with violative linemen Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker aft a triumph implicit 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 the biggest issues facing conferences crossed the state centers connected the absent guardrails erstwhile it comes to schools abiding by the rules.

In reality, determination are nary rules astatine the moment, judging by the magnitude of wealth being spent connected rosters crossed antithetic collegiate sports.

And, a bully chunk of this stems from the House colony that has led to axenic chaos astir campuses, acknowledgment to a contention betwixt programs implicit who tin walk the astir wealth connected trying to triumph a championship.

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

Obviously, this is 1 of the reasons wherefore assemblage commissioners are imploring Congress to hold connected immoderate benignant of authorities that would astatine slightest acceptable up a governance system. A cleanable illustration would beryllium the antithetic types of contracts offered to players, depending connected which authorities the schoolhouse you motion with resides in.

"The contracts we tin connection our players are antithetic than what you tin connection successful California, Louisiana oregon Florida, due to the fact that determination are 39 antithetic authorities laws. We're not governed by 1 thing," Sarkisian noted. "That's wherefore we're striving truthful hard for national involution that we're struggling to get, truthful we tin constabulary these things we person successful place.

"Because if not, immoderate clip idiosyncratic does thing that's against the rules, and for a radical we each signed up to beryllium portion of successful the NCAA..But past erstwhile we interruption the rule, we privation to tally to a justice successful our hometown and get an injunction against that regularisation to get that subordinate eligible. That doesn’t marque consciousness to me. That's wherefore there's been each this speech astir breaking away. It's not breaking distant truthful we tin get distant from everybody, its breaking distant truthful we tin govern the rules that are successful place.

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Head manager Steve Sarkisian of the Texas Longhorns holds the Horns Up motion arsenic helium walks into Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium earlier the 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 directors person to halt acting arsenic if revenue-sharing oregon NIL came retired of nowhere. Take this absorbing punctuation from University of Georgia President Jere Morehead for example.

"If we don't get national authorities successful my opinion, we're going to person bash this league by league due to the fact that we can't let the chaotic westbound to proceed immoderate longer," Morehead said Thursday. "I'm prepared adjacent week successful Destin to beryllium acceptable to ballot connected creating an SEC mechanism, SEC rules that we person to bash 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 helium whitethorn beryllium acting a spot overdramatic, Morehead isn’t wholly wrong. But, until these leaders recognize Congress can't prevention them all, the speech volition displacement toward however a league similar the SEC oregon Big Ten tin commencement governing themselves.

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