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30 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

Pretty surreal reading about the one subject about Sark that we hoped never came up in thread discussions at any point at his time at Texas. If that really became an issue again, it will absolutely come out at some point. Knowing from my own personal experiences, going back down that path leads to other destructive behavior that is impossible to keep quiet. I hope that is not what is going on here. 

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. 

20 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Honestly I thought Casey played ok

You don't have to post every thought that springs to mind on this site for you. Holding back even a little would you avoid embarrassing posts like this. Broken hand or not, Thompson mostly played mediocre to poor. There's a reason he continued to fail downward with every new stop. He just wasn't very good. 

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Posted
Just now, closetojumping said:

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. 

Probably because there's no evidence for any of it.

Posted
2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You don't have to post every thought that springs to mind on this site for you. Holding back even a little would you avoid embarrassing posts like this. 

Certainly makes me question im_smarter’s sobriety and whether or not his employer knows where he is. 

Posted
15 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. 

Hey man, if he was 8-0 with an explosive offense, I could tell you for a FACT that his absence was due to a much needed rehab and that he came out steonger than ever. 

Posted
10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. 

This. Disappointed people look for scapegoats and rumors get out of hand. He did himself no favors by missing meetings, etc. but it could have been him handling shit instead of spinning out, who knows. Let our rivals speculate on the twisted depths of his depravity until we have real intel.

Posted
23 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart. 

You dropped this hint days and pages ago. I immediately understood. I'm amazed how stupid this board is. But then I see the Ewers thread and now this thread as daily reminders. 

This thread is just fucking outright embarrassing. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

You dropped this hint days and pages ago. I immediately understood. I'm amazed how stupid this board is. But then I see the Ewers thread and now this thread as daily reminders. 

This thread is just fucking outright embarrassing. 

Makes one wonder if some of those spreading/rehashing the prurient cuck and baby-daddy rumors are fifth-columnist fans of other programs posting here seditiously. Wait--does that sound like something you'd find on texags?

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, Royale with cheese said:

Makes one wonder if some of those spreading/rehashing the prurient cuck and baby-daddy rumors are fifth-columnist fans of other programs posting here seditiously. Wait--does that sound like something you'd find on texags?

No, many posters (BO&W being the worst) on here insist upon themselves and will keep this thread open for years. Ewers thread shows the absolute worst of what this board is. This thread will take it's place.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I, for one, mentioned rehab stint for 30 days first. You’re welcome Mrs Jumping. 

Thanks for updating us on you've been up to lately, and congratulations. What does this post have to do with anything? Who was talking about "first" regarding this discussion? That's more incel "look at me" bandwidth drain from you. No one pays attention to your constant spewing of banal thoughts and your overall disdain for logic. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

I have a boyfriend. Bless his heart. ❤️ he listens to me. Which must absolutely strain every brain cell he has. He might be a saint. Also @scramblynsaid he’s happily married. I ain’t some shameless hoe that chases married men. Thanks for the defense though. Much appreciated @scramblyn
 

Second point and this is a HYPOTHETICAL : IF sark’s mysterious 30 day absence was unscheduled and if during said unscheduled absence he did go on a bender and said alleged bender caused Sark to miss four weeks of winter practice and everything connected to Junior day in which recruits notated his absence it does fucking matter. Further IF he did go on such a bender and said alleged bender also impacted spring practice and his failure to fix the o-line in the offseason  it does fucking matter.
 

Most normal people could reasonably and logically comprehend that IF he went on  said bender  IT absolutely had a direct correlation to 6-2 and getting beat by Florida in the swamp. 
 

Some of you would ignore all common sense  and swim past the sandbar on a vacation to the beach, get your leg bitten off by a shark only to blame your travel agent cuz she’s a chick. Logic. How does it work? 
 

This isn’t “let’s pile on Sark because we are 6-2.”

And spare me the violins for criticizing a heavily paid man who has been gifted with every resource at his fingertips to have made this team a feared monster this year and so far we have lost in the shoe and the swamp and gone to two OTs with the bottom 1/3 of the conference. This isn’t Sark’s first rodeo. If he wants to disappear like a magician for 30 days and allegedly bender up he can fucking do it after the spring game. 
 

 

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ma'am this is a wendy's

Posted
Just now, jimmyjazz said:

Legit question:  how much of Herman's firing do y'all think was related to performance and how much was related to behavior?

He ended up being despised by everyone. The players, the administration, almost every booster he met, the media, the $9.95ers who held recruiting influence, the trainers/street agents, high school coaches, you name it. I think it just became a thing where no one wanted to deal with his shit anymore. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

He ended up being despised by everyone. The players, the administration, almost every booster he met, the media, the $9.95ers who held recruiting influence, the trainers/street agents, high school coaches, you name it. I think it just became a thing where no one wanted to deal with his shit anymore. 

That kind of gets at what I was thinking.  Regardless of winning records and a 4-0 bowl game tally, if you're an asshole your margins are thinner than if you are a decent person.  And let's be honest, the bar for "decent person" among head coaches isn't all that high.

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Posted
14 hours ago, Zeus said:

His wife was how many months pregnant?

My third is due before the end of the year. I’ve bailed out of work to do stuff for her or bring her somewhere or take her something tons of times. 
 

It could have been complications during pregnancy where he legitimately had to be there for his family. 
 

People are dumb to assume he is drinking himself to death in the offseason. 

I know a couple who were having a baby around the same time and they saw Sark at the hospital/doctor a few times. I don't remember specifics but I want to say Sark's baby may have indeed had some complications (possibly premature?). My memory is fuzzy and I never got a lot of details so please don't take that as fact, anyone. But point being, yeah he had a lot going on.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

I know a couple who were having a baby around the same time and they saw Sark at the hospital/doctor a few times. I don't remember specifics but I want to say Sark's baby may have indeed had some complications (possibly premature?). My memory is fuzzy and I never got a lot of details so please don't take that as fact, anyone. But point being, yeah he had a lot going on.

Did the baby appear to be surprisingly fast?

Did the baby have exemplary Palmar Grasp Reflex?

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Posted (edited)
26 minutes ago, Royale with cheese said:

I guess I'm the absolute only one who doesn't know, but what's the Michelle airplane story? 

If I remember correctly, her and Tom were on a boosters plane and she almost opened one of the hatches

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Either we are the only institution that has a “wives problem” or other schools keep that shit in-house pretty well (or they don’t have them).

- Herman’s wife

- Beard’s whatever the fuck she is and her antics

- Loreal

 

 

Jesus Christ

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Posted
23 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Legit question:  how much of Herman's firing do y'all think was related to performance and how much was related to behavior?

50/50.  Everyone hated him and he had mediocre performance.  If he was beloved with the same record, me might have stayed on another year or two.  OTOH, if he were 12-0 with a natty, he would still be here.  He would just be our asshole.  

Posted
1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said:

I watch most of their games that dont coincide with our times. They will drop 2 before the playoffs.

I've looked at their schedule.  They ain't losing two before the playoffs.  I would love to be wrong, but I won't be.

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1 minute ago, Pancho said:

Either we are the only institution that has a “wives problem” or other schools keep that shit in-house pretty well (or they don’t have them).

- Herman’s wife

- Beard’s whatever the fuck she is and her antics

- Loreal

 

 

Jesus Christ

It's not like the plane story was ever public. We gossipped about it on the recruiting board, if memory serves. The biggest thing regarding Herman's wife that was ever a public story was her alignment with Zach Smith's battered wife and her aiding the woman during times of need. Also, she was smoking hot. 

I think these things happen everywhere. Cleat chasers and coat chasers often become girlfriends, wives, mistresses, you name it. Hell, the shit that was out there about Barnes was as scandalous as any of this two decades ago. I assume if we were all USC or Georgia fans, we'd have stories like this about coaches and players there as well.

I can tell you that the shit coming out of Bama for 18+ years behind the scenes absolutely holds a candle to anything we can throw out there right now. Kiffin was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! Players couldn't get a drink at the table. 

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Posted
30 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Either we are the only institution that has a “wives problem” or other schools keep that shit in-house pretty well (or they don’t have them).

- Herman’s wife

- Beard’s whatever the fuck she is and her antics

- Loreal

 

 

Jesus Christ

Hot girls marrying rising-star meathead coaches is a recipe for disaster, and I'm here for it.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I've looked at their schedule.  They ain't losing two before the playoffs.  I would love to be wrong, but I won't be.

I'm taking the SEC championship in to account in that assumption. Scar will beat somebody this year (ala Texas/Florida) and Texas/Mizzou are good enough to capitalize on mistakes. 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

I'm taking the SEC championship in to account in that assumption. Scar will beat somebody this year (ala Texas/Florida) and Texas/Mizzou are good enough to capitalize on mistakes. 

Got you.  SECCG should put them at two losses, my bad.

Posted
2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Why is everyone avoiding the idea that the time out could have been for rehab and the family, employer and friends knew as much? Everyone drawing the conclusion that one of the possibilities was a bender but not examining a rehab notion is odd. I've always assumed the break was due to some bad old habits resurfacing and the guy needing a restart.


One does not go from normal to rehab without a few steps in between. I hope the time away was at rehab and he is ok but if he was at rehab you can bet there was visibly destructive shit going on. 

Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, BlackCat said:

Sark doesn’t have some buddy relationship with Saban. He calls him the old man and he laughs about how fast Saban wanted out once NIL was firmly in place. I don’t think they like each other that much. 

Saban and Freshwater are actual friends. I was listening to Theo Von and Freshwater and he said Saban is a hard ass, but after the season he invited he and his (now ex-wife) and kids over for the holidays, and how he as a person is the kindest man, and the love he has for his grandchildren was something special. He said watching him play with them, building Legos, coloring, playing cars, etc was a side people would never believe until they saw it. He says he's a hard ass because he's a perfectionist, but after he's done chewing your ass on the field after the game, he'll tell you why. He won't apologize, but he will explain to you why he didn't like this or that play call, etc. He said he never throws any of the coaches under the bus and always accepts responsibility. He said he loves him and his kids see him as a grandfather. They still keep in touch. 

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Posted
8 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

Saban and Freshwater are actual friends. I was listening to Theo Vonn and Freshwater and he Joey said Saban is a hard ass, but after the season he invited he and his (now ex-wife) and kids over for the holidays, and how he as a person is the kindest man, and the love he has for his grandchildren was something special. He said watching him play with them, building Legos, coloring, playing cars, etc was a side people would never believe until they saw it. He says he's a hard ass because he's a perfectionist, but after he's done chewing your ass on the field after tree game, he'll tell you why. He won't apologize, but he will you why he didn't like this or that play call, etc. He said he never throws any of the coaches under the bus and always accepts responsibility. He said he loves him and his kids see him as a grandfather. They still keep in touch. 

Did you have a stroke while typing this?

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Posted
6 hours ago, General Specific said:

Turns out, Surly is doing a remake of Ferris Bueller’a Day Off, and this thread is the casting call.  I’m here because I want to drive a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California.

just so you know, 3 replicas were built for the movie and the garage crash was a prop; 1 of the fakes sold in '20 for $300k; the real ones (56 made) fetch $20m+

 

5 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Guess that leaves Jennifer Grey and I'm more than good with that.  When do we start?

sloan did not age well

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https://longhornswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/longhorns/football/2025/10/29/athletic-reporter-uses-thin-logic-defend-sarkisian-nfl-interest-story/86966130007/

Last Saturday morning, hours before the Mississippi State game, a report set the internet and social media on fire. The Athletic’s Dianna Russini reported Texas coach Steve Sarkisian was angling for an NFL job, specifically the open Tennessee Titans head coaching job. The reaction from Sark and his agents was swift and angry.

Russini said in her story, "Representatives for Texas coach Steve Sarkisian have let NFL decision makers know that he would be interested in potential head coaching openings, including the Titans."

The Athletic scribe didn't give any more information beyond that sentence, which is included within several tidbits Russini added in the "Final Thoughts" section of the article. But the short passage became the lead on the Athletic's social post promoting her NFL rumors column.

In a very rare move, Sark's agents responded on social media. Sark has the biggest agents in college coaching, Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz. Both work for Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest agencies in the world. CAA put out a statement strongly refuting the report from the Athletic.

    "Any reports regarding communications on coaching opportunities with NFL teams are patently false and wildly inaccurate. Sark is solely focused on coaching the University of Texas football team," Sexton and Marynowitx said in a statement.

After beating the Bulldogs in overtime 45-38, Sark also angrily responded to the story in his post-game press converence.

    “It really pisses me off that one person can make a report that in turn, the entire media, sports world runs with as factual. To the point of my agency and my agents have to put a statement out that they have never have done. Historically, CAA, Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz have never done that. But I had to do that to protect my locker room and my team. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous. I thought it was completely unprofessional of that person to put that report out." - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

Russini appeared on the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and basically laughed off Sark and his agents denials. She even sort of mocked the reason behind the denials as almost self-serving.

    "No, it's horrible! When you're the head coach at Texas and you've got recruits visiting and its game day and you got NIL and just all the weird landscape of college now that goes with this. ... In 2025, there are just so many different factors ... with the portal and players wanting to maybe leave if they don't trust that their coach is going to be there. There's a lot of layers." - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Russini went on to say she understands the backlash, but Sark and his camp never actually said he wants to stay at Texas.

    "They have every right to be mad. (chuckles) Unfortunately, they never added that Steve Sarkisian wants to stay at Texas, right? They just said, 'This is not true. We did not talk to any NFL teams.'" - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Basically, Russini takes the position that because in the rare, unprecedented (and in Sark's case) angry public denial of the story, Sark and his agents didn't ADD that Sark wants to stay at Texas for life, thus the story is true. It is a very flimsy argument.

Sark says his inner circle that know his career decision making thought process is small.

    "I’ve got a small circle when I make decisions on what I do and what I don’t do, and nobody would speak on my behalf without me knowing. And so where that report came from, I’d love to talk to that person.” - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

Russini says, her source isn't anyone from Sark's inner circle.

    "Jimmy Sexton and Steve Sarkisian, you know just to be clear, the reporting I did did not come from them. Like Steve didn't call me on Saturday morning and be like, 'Hey, like report this!'" - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Russini then goes on to further justify her story by saying because she thinks Sarkisian has thoughts about coaching in the NFL. Her story is fair because Sark is keeping his options open.

    "Does Steve Sarkisian have thoughts about coaching in the NFL? Absolutely. I think its totally fair and understanding to say that Steve Sarkisian is always going to keep his options open. He should. It would be smart business for Steve to always have options outside of Texas." - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Her last point is fair and logical. But that's not what she reported. She didn't say Sark has general interest in coaching in the NFL someday. Or that in the future, Sark and the University of Texas might part ways. Of course all of those things are true.

But, even though the "report" was only one sentence, it was very specific to the Titans. Russini didn't say she thought someday Sark would jump to an NFL team. She named a specific team that she was told Sark was going after.

When you peel away the layers of the onion in this story, Russini looks worse and worse. And she could be right. Sark could be angling for an NFL job. But they way it was reported was amateurish and easily dismissed.

 

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2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Jesus fucking Christ dude. 

What? He's fucking hilarious. And yeah, I realized my phone added an extra 'N', so my bad on that. If you don't like Theo, cool, but he cracks me up. 

Anyway, it wss a great interview, and it wasn't like typical sophmoric humor ones, either. Dude is a huge CFB fan and went to LSU, so him talking to Kiffin was great. Plus hearing Kiffin actually converse outside of coach speak bullshit was nice to hear. He seems like a genuinely good dude.  

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Just now, TexArcher said:

 

butwhy.gif

He says the most off the wall weird shit that makes me laugh. I get it, he's not for everyone, but at least I don't listen to Joe Rogan. And to be honest, I don't listen to podcasts in general very often. I was just scrolling through my Spotify and it showed he was interviewing Kiffin, and that peaked my interest, and it was worth it. Podcasts usually bother me unless they're about serial killers and space/physics and shit like that. 

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9 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

just so you know, 3 replicas were built for the movie and the garage crash was a prop; 1 of the fakes sold in '20 for $300k; the real ones (56 made) fetch $20m+

 

sloan did not age well

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https://longhornswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/longhorns/football/2025/10/29/athletic-reporter-uses-thin-logic-defend-sarkisian-nfl-interest-story/86966130007/

Last Saturday morning, hours before the Mississippi State game, a report set the internet and social media on fire. The Athletic’s Dianna Russini reported Texas coach Steve Sarkisian was angling for an NFL job, specifically the open Tennessee Titans head coaching job. The reaction from Sark and his agents was swift and angry.

Russini said in her story, "Representatives for Texas coach Steve Sarkisian have let NFL decision makers know that he would be interested in potential head coaching openings, including the Titans."

The Athletic scribe didn't give any more information beyond that sentence, which is included within several tidbits Russini added in the "Final Thoughts" section of the article. But the short passage became the lead on the Athletic's social post promoting her NFL rumors column.

In a very rare move, Sark's agents responded on social media. Sark has the biggest agents in college coaching, Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz. Both work for Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest agencies in the world. CAA put out a statement strongly refuting the report from the Athletic.

    "Any reports regarding communications on coaching opportunities with NFL teams are patently false and wildly inaccurate. Sark is solely focused on coaching the University of Texas football team," Sexton and Marynowitx said in a statement.

After beating the Bulldogs in overtime 45-38, Sark also angrily responded to the story in his post-game press converence.

    “It really pisses me off that one person can make a report that in turn, the entire media, sports world runs with as factual. To the point of my agency and my agents have to put a statement out that they have never have done. Historically, CAA, Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz have never done that. But I had to do that to protect my locker room and my team. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous. I thought it was completely unprofessional of that person to put that report out." - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

Russini appeared on the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and basically laughed off Sark and his agents denials. She even sort of mocked the reason behind the denials as almost self-serving.

    "No, it's horrible! When you're the head coach at Texas and you've got recruits visiting and its game day and you got NIL and just all the weird landscape of college now that goes with this. ... In 2025, there are just so many different factors ... with the portal and players wanting to maybe leave if they don't trust that their coach is going to be there. There's a lot of layers." - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Russini went on to say she understands the backlash, but Sark and his camp never actually said he wants to stay at Texas.

    "They have every right to be mad. (chuckles) Unfortunately, they never added that Steve Sarkisian wants to stay at Texas, right? They just said, 'This is not true. We did not talk to any NFL teams.'" - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Basically, Russini takes the position that because in the rare, unprecedented (and in Sark's case) angry public denial of the story, Sark and his agents didn't ADD that Sark wants to stay at Texas for life, thus the story is true. It is a very flimsy argument.

Sark says his inner circle that know his career decision making thought process is small.

    "I’ve got a small circle when I make decisions on what I do and what I don’t do, and nobody would speak on my behalf without me knowing. And so where that report came from, I’d love to talk to that person.” - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

Russini says, her source isn't anyone from Sark's inner circle.

    "Jimmy Sexton and Steve Sarkisian, you know just to be clear, the reporting I did did not come from them. Like Steve didn't call me on Saturday morning and be like, 'Hey, like report this!'" - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Russini then goes on to further justify her story by saying because she thinks Sarkisian has thoughts about coaching in the NFL. Her story is fair because Sark is keeping his options open.

    "Does Steve Sarkisian have thoughts about coaching in the NFL? Absolutely. I think its totally fair and understanding to say that Steve Sarkisian is always going to keep his options open. He should. It would be smart business for Steve to always have options outside of Texas." - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Her last point is fair and logical. But that's not what she reported. She didn't say Sark has general interest in coaching in the NFL someday. Or that in the future, Sark and the University of Texas might part ways. Of course all of those things are true.

But, even though the "report" was only one sentence, it was very specific to the Titans. Russini didn't say she thought someday Sark would jump to an NFL team. She named a specific team that she was told Sark was going after.

When you peel away the layers of the onion in this story, Russini looks worse and worse. And she could be right. Sark could be angling for an NFL job. But they way it was reported was amateurish and easily dismissed.

 

I just sent a sternly worded email to her boss thanks to your post

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Either we are the only institution that has a “wives problem” or other schools keep that shit in-house pretty well (or they don’t have them).

- Herman’s wife

- Beard’s whatever the fuck she is and her antics

- Loreal

 

 

Jesus Christ

Don't forget Sally and her shit ass cookies

Posted
13 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

https://longhornswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/longhorns/football/2025/10/29/athletic-reporter-uses-thin-logic-defend-sarkisian-nfl-interest-story/86966130007/

Basically, Russini takes the position that because in the rare, unprecedented (and in Sark's case) angry public denial of the story, Sark and his agents didn't ADD that Sark wants to stay at Texas for life, thus the story is true. It is a very flimsy argument.

Sark says his inner circle that know his career decision making thought process is small.

    "I’ve got a small circle when I make decisions on what I do and what I don’t do, and nobody would speak on my behalf without me knowing. And so where that report came from, I’d love to talk to that person.” - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian

Russini says, her source isn't anyone from Sark's inner circle.

    "Jimmy Sexton and Steve Sarkisian, you know just to be clear, the reporting I did did not come from them. Like Steve didn't call me on Saturday morning and be like, 'Hey, like report this!'" - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Russini then goes on to further justify her story by saying because she thinks Sarkisian has thoughts about coaching in the NFL. Her story is fair because Sark is keeping his options open.

    "Does Steve Sarkisian have thoughts about coaching in the NFL? Absolutely. I think its totally fair and understanding to say that Steve Sarkisian is always going to keep his options open. He should. It would be smart business for Steve to always have options outside of Texas." - Athletic reporter Dianna Russini on Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Her last point is fair and logical. But that's not what she reported. She didn't say Sark has general interest in coaching in the NFL someday. Or that in the future, Sark and the University of Texas might part ways. Of course all of those things are true.

But, even though the "report" was only one sentence, it was very specific to the Titans. Russini didn't say she thought someday Sark would jump to an NFL team. She named a specific team that she was told Sark was going after.

When you peel away the layers of the onion in this story, Russini looks worse and worse. And she could be right. Sark could be angling for an NFL job. But they way it was reported was amateurish and easily dismissed.

Wait . . . so it's piss?

Posted

I thought there was nothing weirder in the CFB world than middle aged men holding obsessive interest in high schoolers (aka Tweetin at Croots)…until i discovered the world of Coaching Administration Drama. 

Posted (edited)

NSIAP...

Derailing the thread to get back to why this originally came up.

Cliff notes...Source? I don't need or have a source, + he didn't deny it, so there you go. 

 

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