The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - What Is Going On With The Longhorns?

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

What Is Going On With The Longhorns? 

See, I'm throwing this quote at you, and it's unfortunately going to a UT fan. What does that mean? Because you're going to, well, you've already... I'm unbiased. Listen to your voice. I'm unbiased. That voice is already kind of... What happened when Sark called out that reporter and said something stupid?

What did I say? Did I defend him? You said Steve Sarkasian is godlike leaving alone? Yeah, exactly. No, I didn't say that. I said that it was ridiculous and he shouldn't have said it. And I also, I think I called him out on shut your bum ass up. All right.

I don't know how you're going to react to this. So shut Joe bum ass up. All right? Yeah. Ross get all feisty. He was asked about the team struggles against P4 teams. Yes. Quote, I mean, how many teams are there in college football?

136? Take the other 135 and have them go play at Ohio State and at the swamp. See how they do. Okay, so let me go first before you have a chance to think about it. Okay, well, I've heard these comments before. You are the freaking University of Texas. You are a national program. You are expected to compete.

for and potentially win national championships. You are expected to play top flight competition. You are expected to not play Utah State and Central Arkansas and Eastern Missouri and those other dregs. You are to play the thoroughbreds, the number ones, the landmark Hall of Fame upper echelon schools. Like the reigning national champion on the road. Correct. No shame in that whatsoever. Complaining about playing at Florida, you joined the SEC.

your decision. No one forced you. Nobody pulled you into the SEC. You knew, you knew, I'm not talking about Steve and person. I'm talking about anybody. You knew at the University of Texas you were going to be playing a much higher league competition. Look, I love the Big 12, and I'm happy to be in it, but the Big 12 isn't as good as SEC. The SEC is the number one conference, and it's going to be that way probably for the rest of time.

Yeah. Okay. That's what Goody says. You drop in a little, well, what do you expect going to Florida? I expect you to be the better football team. I expect you to have, forgetting about NIL, forgetting about you just, you are two-time national semi-finalist game. You're supposed to go in at Florida. Florida is in a down period of their time.

Billy Napier is on very thin ice at the University of Florida. You've got the number one quarterback in the country. You have routinely top 10, 15 recruiting classes nationally. You're supposed to win those games. Now, Florida's competitive. SEC is difficult. But blaming who you have to play as to, well, number one. else could do this is patently ridiculous.

Okay, there's a couple things here. First of all, I don't think he's blaming it and saying, well, yeah, our schedule has been super hard. He said, well, he was asked about beating power four teams, and they've only played two power four teams, and those were on the road in the shoe and on the road in the swamp. And it is a fact, those are two very difficult road environments. But also, yes, he's being overly defensive and arrogant. What I guess he wants is he wants to play. Kentucky and South Carolina every year.

No, I think he's saying, yeah, you're saying, like come back to me in a few weeks when we haven't had to play two in the toughest road in. I get where he's coming from. He's just fraying in in a very arrogant way because, well, he's a college head coach. And Steve Sarkisian is, as we've seen in front of reporters, very arrogant. So here's how I think you do it and you go, man, we have played a really, really tough schedule. Going to Ohio State and going to Florida so far in the first month and a half in the season, present our challenges. And we look forward to bouncing back. I

think you can always turn it to a positive spin because that's who you are. You have to have some sort of dynamic ability in front of a microphone. You just have to. He should yes. He's kind of in the ballpark of how he should have framed

it and said, you know what? We've taken care of business at home and then the losses that we've had were on the road in the shoe and against the Florida team in the swamp with their backs against the wall. So we're looking to get better but it's also been a tough road for us, something like that. Right. But the way he says, well, if you look at

everybody else and they had to do what we had to do, I'd like to see where they are. That's, that's not placing blame on others. Right. Deflecting the blame. It's not the right way to do it. So another mishandled press conference from Sark. I mean, write it down.

I have a question. Go ahead. It's just he's kind of implying as well that UTEP and Sam Houston State aren't competitors at all. Well, he was asked specifically about power for schools. And those aren't power for schools. And my question, the second question is,

if Penn State head coach said the same thing about UCLA or Oregon, would that be the same, like, I don't know. Well, James Franklin isn't going to be saying a word. He's, he's very silent right now. But I feel like Sarks should be the same way, like, you lost a really, they weren't even ranked, regardless if it's the known swamp. The swamp has been bad before as well as Ohio State's been,

bad before. I just, I think that's a like Ross is saying, it's just a it gives a bad taste in your mouth, especially if I was his athlete. Is that my sense? Yeah, I mean, Penn State lost it in front of like 20,000 people at UCLA, nobody cares about that program and UCLA is terrible. It's a little

bit different. But I, yeah, the point is he, yes, he had him, he had it laid in front of him to, I guess you could say excuse making or whatever. Losing on the road in the shoe, there's no, to the raining National Championship. They're a champion. There's no shame in that.

And I applaud them for playing it. And frankly, as I've talked before, maybe we should stop telling these two teams to play good teams because it obviously isn't a bad juju throttle. You didn't get, you didn't fix yourself in the three games you had against winnable opponents as you came back to playing sluggish football. Well, it's week to week and everything will be all better if they can just beat Oklahoma, which they're favored. And I believe they do. Now, don't tell Jonathan, I sent you a sound clip. Don't tell Ross who it's from. Uh-oh. But I was

able to find a man who I, when I think, when I respectfully think of who can give me the real pulse of Texas football. Oh, boy. I thought of this person. Play the sound by please. Give me, give me two seconds. Okay. It's somebody when you think of college football analysis, a real heartbeat on Texas, you think of this person. Here it comes.

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I'm almost at 3,000. Oh, my God. Here it is. Sarkeesia, right here on national television. I respect this man. I like this man. And I think that for the most part, he's been a hell of a coach. I'm very disappointed with what I've seen from Steve Sarkeesian this year.

To me, Paul, he has coached scared. He has coached like somebody who's been forced to deal with all the allure, all the attention and notoriety that comes. associated with Arch Manning, and he has not lived up to the billing any more than his quarterback has. And I think that he's been feeling the pressure since the opening of the season, Paul. I think he has coached like it. And I think that for him to say what he said as a quote, what do you mean?

You know, how would they do? You're Texas. You came into the season ranked as the number one team in the nation. And this ain't Florida that was coached that's been coached by Urban Maya, no disrespect. Okay, Urban Meyer is not there. He's not walking through that door. Tim Tebow ain't walking through that door. This is a different Florida Gators program.

For him to come out of his mouth and say that, to me, just speaks to the level of disappointment. Everybody should be feeling about Steve Sarkesian because I think that he has coached scared because Archmanning is there. There was huge expectations, and he's been dealing with all of that instead of just coaching football like he knows how to coach football.

There you go. Stephen A. Smith, right on top of things at the University of Texas. All right. I did that just to poke at you. Thank you. Feeling great.