Texas Longhorns head coach coach Steve Sarkisian took an unprompted shot at one of his SEC rivals in an interview on Tuesday.
Sarkisian was bragging about the high academic standards at Texas, and he seized upon the opportunity to contrast them with what he thinks of Ole Miss’ standards. The Texas coach said, in contrast to his school, that taking “basket weaving” is sufficient to earn a degree from Ole Miss.
“At Texas, we will only take 50% of a player’s academic credit hours,” Sarkisian told Matt Hayes of USA Today. “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.
“It’s like we’ve forgotten about academics, yet less than 5% of these guys will play in the NFL.”
New Florida head coach Jon Sumrall got in on the action, joking that he was “grateful to coach at a top-10 public university that also offers advanced basket weaving!”
