{"id":666772,"date":"2026-05-26T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:27:07","slug":"steve-sarkisian-says-ole-miss-basket-weaving-comment-was-poor-choice-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666772\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian says Ole Miss basket weaving comment was &#8216;poor choice of words&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Destin, Fla. \u2014 Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian told the media on Tuesday that the SEC has not fined him for comments directed at Ole Miss. In a USA Today story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2026\/05\/12\/steve-sarkisian-ole-miss-basket-weaving-texas-football\/90042630007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> earlier this month, Sarkisian said \u201call you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian said the comments were a \u201cpoor choice of words\u201d and \u201ctaken out of context.\u201d Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter has not commented publicly about Sarkisian\u2019s comments, but sources told On3\u2019s Chris Low that there have already been discussions among Ole Miss administrators and SEC officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a rule at the University of Texas, we can only take 50% towards your degree, no matter how many hours you\u2019ve completed,\u201d Sarkisian said. \u201cOther schools can take all of your hours that you take. To me, that\u2019s an inequity in our sport. Those are some of the things that we have to work through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could have used macroeconomics. I could have used engineering. It wouldn\u2019t have mattered. The class was irrelevant, and that was a poor choice of words on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas hosts Ole Miss on Oct 24. The Longhorns are coming off a 10-3 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Destin, Fla. \u2014 Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian told the media on Tuesday that the SEC has not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-666772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}