Texas Longhorns football coach Steve Sarkisian takes bizarre, strangely-timed shot at Ole Miss

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Texas Longhorns football coach Steve Sarkisian strangely took aim at the University of Mississippi and the Ole Miss Rebels in a comment about the school’s academic standards for transfers.

Per Sark during a conversation with USA Today’s Matt Hayes, “At Texas, we will only take 50% of a player’s academic credit hours. You may be a semester from graduating, but you’re going all the way back to 50% if you play here and want a degree. But at Ole Miss, they can take you. All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.”

Sarkisian was in a bad mood the whole interview, clowning on the idea of watching the NC State Wolfpack, which is the program he poached running back Hollywood Smothers from, playing the Wake Forest Deacon Demons, and questioning the idea of the Miami Hurricanes making a run to the CFP title game if The U played the Longhorns’ SEC schedule. Still, this shot wasn’t just at the University of Mississippi. Sark just undermined an art form to make his point. And for what?

The timing of this shot at Ole Miss is very interesting. It’s not been the best PR week for the Rebels.

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Sark’s comments come just days after former Ole Miss head coach and current LSU Tigers headman Lane Kiffin painted the University of Mississippi and Oxford in a negative light via a Vanity Fair hit piece on the Rebs. Kiffin didn’t attack Ole Miss’s academic standards, but claimed there is a pervasive prejudiced culture in Oxford.

That’s multiple attacks on the University of Mississippi just days apart from SEC head coaches. Perhaps Pete Golding isn’t in the reportedly active SEC head football coaches group chat, since Kiffin is supposedly the GC’s most active member.

It’s unclear what the actual reason for all these attacks on Ole Miss is. It just doesn’t seem like an accident, since these head coaches took to media outlets to get the message out in a coordinated fashion.

Perhaps Golding is threatening the conference’s bourgeoisie. Maybe it’s a good thing the Rebels are being taken down like this.

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