{"id":119373,"date":"2026-01-11T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:17:08","slug":"texas-tweets-to-troll-alabama-after-hollywood-smothers-cam-coleman-transfer-portal-commits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119373\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas tweets to troll Alabama after Hollywood Smothers, Cam Coleman transfer portal commits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas got the best of Alabama<\/a> this weekend, a run of victories that crossed over multiple sports. First, the men\u2019s basketball squad took down the Crimson Tide 92-88<\/a> at Coleman Coliseum Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Then, Steve Sarkisian\u2019s football team scored two major transfer portal victories, earning former Auburn wideout Cam Coleman\u2019s commitment<\/a> after he had visited Tuscaloosa. Running back Hollywood Smothers, who had committed to Alabama from NC State earlier in the portal cycle, then flipped to Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all that success, the Longhorn social media team apparently decided to get in on the action. Following Coleman\u2019s commitment, the official Texas men\u2019s basketball account on the platform formerly known as Twitter posted a handshake emoji, tagging the football account.<\/p>\n

The post went out at 12:34 p.m. CT, minutes after the Coleman news was released. The Smothers flip was reported less than 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n

The Texas football account then retweeted the post. It remained up on both accounts as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The basketball loss on Saturday prompted Crimson Tide head coach to call out his team\u2019s attitude moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got guys that don\u2019t care enough to lock in and follow a game plan,\u201d Oats said during his postgame press conference. \u201cLosing doesn\u2019t bother them enough yet. I don\u2019t know how many losses it\u2019s going to take \u2018till it bothers them, but it\u2019s bothering me. It bothers the coaching staff, and as soon as it starts bothering the players enough, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll change.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the football side, the Smothers loss is significant for Alabama, given that he had already publicly committed to the Crimson Tide. UA\u2019s run game struggled all throughout the 2025 season, but adding a veteran from NC Stae looked to be exactly what Kalen DeBoer and company needed to get back on track.<\/p>\n

Instead, UA will need to either find another option in the portal, or rely on what it already has on the roster. That group includes Daniel Hill, Kevin Riley, AK Dear and incoming freshman EJ Crowell.<\/p>\n

If Alabama could have landed Coleman, it would have been a major win for UA in-state, after he had initially become a superstar for Auburn. His presence would have given the passing attack a huge boost, especially after Isaiah Horton decided to enter the transfer portal.<\/p>\n

The football portal remains open for undergraduate entry through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas got the best of Alabama this weekend, a run of victories that crossed over multiple sports. First,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,23885,27,29,28,23886],"class_list":["post-119373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-american-football","tag-bestof","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-topix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}