{"id":435233,"date":"2026-09-14T03:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435233\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:14:27","slug":"steve-sarkisian-torched-for-spurning-holly-rowe-in-shocking-scene-after-dramatic-texas-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435233\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian torched for spurning Holly Rowe in shocking scene after dramatic Texas win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Steve Sarkisian blew off ESPN\u2019s Holly Rowe and is hearing the backlash.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns completed a stunning comeback Saturday night<\/a>, scoring 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter for a 24-23 victory over No. 1 Ohio State.<\/p>\n

In the chaotic aftermath<\/a> as Texas celebrated on the field, Sarkisian joined Rowe and before she got the queue from the broadcast to start her questioning, he started yelling, \u201cThat\u2019s called Texas fight! That\u2019s called Texas fight! Hook \u2019em!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Texas'Texas\u2019 Steve Sarkisian walks away from ESPN\u2019s Holly Rowe, skipping the postgame interview. X @awfulannouncing<\/p>\n

Sarkisian cut off her question completely before throwing up the horns and walking away to his celebrating team<\/a> in the back of the shot.<\/p>\n

A frustrated Rowe was left behind and many were quick to come to her defense. <\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, this is just rude of Sark. Holly is a total pro with a job to do,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Madelyn Burke wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cParticularly bad given how much college football coaches are praised en masse by the 4-Letter, let alone the rights fees. Holly Rowe, always a pro,\u201d \u201cSports Media Podcast\u201d host Richard Deitsch added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cClassless move by Sark towards Holly Rowe just now. You know how it is man. Just answer the damn question,\u201d 98.5 The Sports Hub\u2019s Kendra Middleton wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisrespectful to a legend. Not a good look for Sark\u2026 again,\u201d a fourth chimed in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what this is about but it\u2019s a bad look. Also Holly Rowe was salty, understandably,\u201d D.C. sports radio host Grant Paulsen posted.<\/a><\/p>\n

A similar scene played out at halftime when ESPN\u2019s technical issues delayed an interview with Sarkisian. The coach waited, but it proved too long and the broadcast did not get him on camera with his team trailing, 20-3.<\/p>\n

\"LonghornsLonghorns head coach Steve Sarkisian abruptly ended his interview with ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe after Texas\u2019 24-23 come-from-behind win over Ohio State on Sept. 12, 2026 in Austin, Texas. On3 \/ X<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright, we actually just lost Sark because he had to go,\u201d Laura Rutledge explained when<\/a> the broadcast cut to her on the field while Sarkisian ran to the locker room. \u201cI\u2019m sorry about that, you guys. He waited for a long time. Credit to him for waiting. We\u2019ll try to get him on the way out of the half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the second half started, Rutledge cleared up the situation again for viewers at home. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do want to make sure we clear something up. [Sarkisian] did not decline the interview at the half,\u201d she said. \u201cHe had waited a long time, been very patient with some technical issues that we had. He apologized to us. We should be apologizing to him, which we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Longhorns are off to a 2-0 start and will host UTSA on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Steve Sarkisian blew off ESPN\u2019s Holly Rowe and is hearing the backlash. The Longhorns completed a stunning comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,261,7000,154,21985,21986,3231,537],"class_list":["post-435233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-football","tag-espn","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435233","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=435233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}