October 29, 2025 • 10 mins
WEx and AC break down their thoughts on if LSU is the best job in college football. What if Texas were to come open? Does that make the Longhirns gig the best job on the market until the end of time?
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
It is the a team.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sports Talk seven ninety wexac Cole Thompson with you on
a Wednesday edition.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, we're not gonna do the Neco update now because
Wex's ruined that on the way to break.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, I mean he knows I was there.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I can't tell you what they're gonna do, and I
can't tell you where he is in the protocol, but
I can tell you what he looked like. He looked
totally fiouse and again, health was not the concerns. It's
a concussion situation, so it's a matter of can he
pass that. So I've seen him at the minimal amount
of practice we're allowed to view during the season. He
looked exactly like that when he was running his limited
number of drills were allowed to see and reaching up
(00:47):
to catch passes, catching passes on the side. Christian Kirk
was also out there. He's obviously trying to come back
from an injury to his hamstring. He also looked very good. Again,
I'm sure they'll be listed as limited. I'm sure they
were limited. Don't think this team is like the Ravens
and tries to cheat, So we'll probably find out more
by the end of the week. But if I were
to guests, I would think both of them will be
(01:07):
available should Demiko decide to have them both active on Sunday,
and I'm sure that he will.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Lamar Jackson's playing tomorrow night. Right, we can all agree on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That based on him, you know, talking with the media,
the fact that he's practiced for real, practiced in full,
but they also have some estimated practice like a short week.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He basically went into a bunker and hid from the
media this entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, when players are hurt, even when they're quarterbacks, they
don't usually talk to the media.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, I guess, I don't know. Maybe it's uh,
oh my gosh. The Turkey rug guy is texting me
right now. I'm sorry. It just came up on my
screen with another phone number. All right, this is this
is insane. So anyway, if you've listened to the show
in recent weeks, do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What was I getting to you here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this morning we all walk outside and it's like, Chris,
I mean, I this is how close? This is how happen.
I was about the weather. I almost texted you to
say hey. The time he headed over to the stadium.
I was going to join you.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Five.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, it's not because I wanted to watch practice. I
just wanted to be outside. My little guy goes to
school very very early, insanely early as a matter of fact.
So he walked out the door, and by the way,
it was its college day today, so they can wear
their gear. So he's wearing a long Horns jersey under
a letterman's jacket with a little jeans and his Air
(02:29):
Force ones all white.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No bearcat's tattoo under any of that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, we're not sending money to that school anymore. So
he's gonna wear the colors.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of the owl anywhere. Nope, nobody in this chest is
not on his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Not not whatever community college that she went to for
a year before she dropped out and made more money
than she ever would have if she got.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
A degree like I have.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No but he looked like a little like miniature like
dark high school. He kinda he has. He has a
better hairline than Sark. He's younger. Wow, she's coressed. She
also conveyed, he's also convinced he's not going to get
my hairline.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sarks had to figure out if they can win it
can the Longhorns win without Arch my column, they can
barely win with him, so it makes sense that there's
a reasonable chance they can. How about fact win without
him and that they were only tied when he left
the game, then they outscored their opponents seven to nothing
and won the game.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How about Diana Russini speaking of Sark.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, we could probably dig into what she did when
she makes a weekly appearance on the Lebatade Show. And
so that obviously came yesterday after her Sunday article where
she wrote three thousand words and at the very very
end of the article, in a final thoughts portion of
her notebook, she wrote that one sentence about Sark, which
relate re ended up pushing Sark's agents to put a
(03:45):
strongly worded statement about he is not this is not true.
And then Sark for about a minute of his postgame
press conference after they had just beaten Mississippi State, because
it's all happened the day of the game on Saturday,
just before their mid afternoon kickoff, and he said, it's
ridiculous we played that audio for you. It's ridiculous that
(04:06):
you guys in the media wasn't specific to the people
in the room. But us, like AC and myself and
everybody else in the country that's covering college football, you
guys all just ran with it. One person puts it
out there, and everyone just takes it and runs with
It's embarrassing for you. Well, in her subsequent interview or
subsequent guest appearance her the only point she made to
(04:27):
try to not make it sound like she was wrong
or made it up, was nobody said he's committed to Texas.
That's what I was waiting to hear. Wasn't in the statement.
Zark didn't say that either. But if you go and
listen to all the things that she did say, and
we do have some body language readers on the X platform,
this is very best of X type of stuff. You
(04:48):
could even tell by the way she was deflecting it.
She had no one idea what to say, because as
people who don't have to back up their what they say,
like we do.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh can you not? How many more ways can she
tell she made it?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like a very eighteen semantics segment type of situation.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, well she didn't say this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, the people I didn't get the information from Sark
and his agent. It's not like they called me and said, hey,
report this. No kidding, no kidding, they didn't do that.
It's very obvious now all parties could absolutely be playing
the game. It's that happens all the time, especially when
you wonder aloud, and I wonder aloud all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why would agents give stories?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Why? I mean, you might have a nice relationship with
the reporter, and you may have some good rapport over
the years, but there is an element of you scratch
my back all scratch yours and if the agent thinks
the media the public knowing stuff can help their cause.
Whether it's a coach getting a new gig, where there's
a coach getting a raise, whatever, my coach is drawing
(05:49):
interest all over the country because this person reported it.
Would you mind reporting this? I'm telling you it's true.
But now I'm literally giving you the information because I
wanted out there. Why don't you do me a favor
and go ahead and write about this. I'm giving you this. Well, conversely,
it may work the other way. I don't know what
this does for anybody, whether he's whether it's like, why
(06:10):
would you want that out there? You can do that
all you want. He's not coaching this year, to get
a raise from Texas. He's not coaching this year to
get another college job. So if he wants an NFL job,
just go ahead and take it, go ahead and interview
for it, and take it whenever the time comes. If
he were in a different situation, like if they were
still holding on to the same ranking they had when
(06:30):
the year began, which was one, then things would be
a little bit different. He would be the hottest coach
in the He'd be hotter than Lane Kiffen. Everybody, including
Texas who's already re upped with him, would be angling
to do it again so they wouldn't lose him in
the momentum and what they're building there.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You know, in that vein.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I've thought about this a lot because it's you know,
first you have the tiers of conferences, you know, the
SEC and everyone else. Because the SEC's one, Well that's
because it just means more. But it just means more
to coach in the SEC as well. It's not just
playing in the SEC. How And maybe I'm asking the
wrong person this because not only do you have someone there.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you also are a graduate of this school.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Ye, my degree is right there in the closet collecting
dust I dusted off every couple of years.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It like, how how many jobs no matter, don't think
about how they're doing right now from a play standpoint,
How many jobs in this country are really better than Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, that's the conversation we've gotten into. I think with
Dan Lanning, whose name is out there, like, is it
really a better situation for him to leave Oregon? Is
it really a better situation for Sark to leave Texas
from one SEC school presumably to another. You wouldn't leave
for Penn State. I wouldn't imagine you'd leave for Florida State,
which will likely be open at the end of the year,
or any of the number of other schools. The other
(07:54):
jobs that are open are all SEC jobs, and they're
probably going to be more of them. You could make
more money, because that's movement means money. When you move,
you make more money. Or is LSU a better job
than Texas? What do you mean by then it's up
to you to decide what's better. Is it better to
have in your lifetime, on your lifelong resume, on your
coaching legacy. I want a national title at Texas. I
(08:16):
want a national title at LSU. I would think it's
actually better to say it at Texas considering, well, they
had some national titles when they won them with the
guy who the stadium's named after, and then they won
one other, yeah, with Mac and they is definitely there.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But I, in my opinion, I think that is a
lateral move. I don't think one's better than the other. No,
either way, I really don't. You know an ole Miss
is that different? Is a move to LSU. I think
that's a tier down.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's why I think that many people believe that could have.
But he's also not at that He's not coaching like
that this year. They're they're not playing that kind of
football this year. And maybe it doesn't even matter to anyone,
But yeah, I think like the landing at Texas, like
you like Kaylin de boor, he's the Alabama head coach, right,
he doesn't lose any games the rest of the year,
and they win the conference, they win the conference title game,
and then they win the playoffs and they win the
(09:05):
national title.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
There, you're not poaching him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
He's at Alabama, right, That's what And that's what I
was about to say, just like I just said that
ole Miss is a tier down. I think we're talking
about the SEC. So it's like an embarrassment of riches
in every direction. You look, even at Vanderbilt. Just kidding,
but like the big game this week, I know they
do have. But what I'm saying is, whereas LSU in
Texas right now, I mean are probably like right here,
(09:30):
I'm doing an even side by side with my hands
because we're on TV.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, prior to Brian Kelly, the three consecutive coaches won
a national title there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right, but I still think that they're like lateral movements.
Whereas because of only because of what Nick Saban recently did,
is Alabama a next tier up?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know, if Alabama's job opened right like any school,
but that's what happened when Sark or when Saban left.
I mean, shouldn't we just go get Sark? I mean,
this is a big job. I mean, he's familiar with
the program, he's doing well here. This is the guy
we should target. This is the guy we should overpay
or pay as much money as we have. They ended
up getting a coach who was playing for the national
(10:11):
title instead, and now it could be again with new school.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The prominence factor like I mean, there's probably two arguments
to be made one way or the other when it
comes to like Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, there's also history to discuss.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
This conversation we'll continue to have because things are not
changing anytime soon for stability. They're gonna change for more
instability as we move forward through this college football season,
and clearly once the regular season twelve games get played
in a handful of conference title games, maybe there's gonna
be a lot more opening.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So there's gonna be a lot more movement.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
There's gonna be the ridiculous period between well should I
keep coaching my team even though I'm recruiting for the
team that I'm now working for. Just oddity in college football.
Best of X and hopefully soon hearing from Demiico Ryans
and CJ.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Stroud.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
That's what's in front of you here on The A Team.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety
It is the a team.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sports Talk seven ninety wexac Cole Thompson with you on
a Wednesday edition.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, we're not gonna do the Neco update now because
Wex's ruined that on the way to break.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, I mean he knows I was there.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I can't tell you what they're gonna do, and I
can't tell you where he is in the protocol, but
I can tell you what he looked like. He looked
totally fiouse and again, health was not the concerns. It's
a concussion situation, so it's a matter of can he
pass that. So I've seen him at the minimal amount
of practice we're allowed to view during the season. He
looked exactly like that when he was running his limited
number of drills were allowed to see and reaching up
(00:47):
to catch passes, catching passes on the side. Christian Kirk
was also out there. He's obviously trying to come back
from an injury to his hamstring. He also looked very good. Again,
I'm sure they'll be listed as limited. I'm sure they
were limited. Don't think this team is like the Ravens
and tries to cheat, So we'll probably find out more
by the end of the week. But if I were
to guests, I would think both of them will be
(01:07):
available should Demiko decide to have them both active on Sunday,
and I'm sure that he will.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Lamar Jackson's playing tomorrow night. Right, we can all agree on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That based on him, you know, talking with the media,
the fact that he's practiced for real, practiced in full,
but they also have some estimated practice like a short week.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He basically went into a bunker and hid from the
media this entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, when players are hurt, even when they're quarterbacks, they
don't usually talk to the media.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, I guess, I don't know. Maybe it's uh,
oh my gosh. The Turkey rug guy is texting me
right now. I'm sorry. It just came up on my
screen with another phone number. All right, this is this
is insane. So anyway, if you've listened to the show
in recent weeks, do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What was I getting to you here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this morning we all walk outside and it's like, Chris,
I mean, I this is how close? This is how happen.
I was about the weather. I almost texted you to
say hey. The time he headed over to the stadium.
I was going to join you.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Five.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, it's not because I wanted to watch practice. I
just wanted to be outside. My little guy goes to
school very very early, insanely early as a matter of fact.
So he walked out the door, and by the way,
it was its college day today, so they can wear
their gear. So he's wearing a long Horns jersey under
a letterman's jacket with a little jeans and his Air
(02:29):
Force ones all white.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No bearcat's tattoo under any of that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, we're not sending money to that school anymore. So
he's gonna wear the colors.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of the owl anywhere. Nope, nobody in this chest is
not on his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Not not whatever community college that she went to for
a year before she dropped out and made more money
than she ever would have if she got.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
A degree like I have.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No but he looked like a little like miniature like
dark high school. He kinda he has. He has a
better hairline than Sark. He's younger. Wow, she's coressed. She
also conveyed, he's also convinced he's not going to get
my hairline.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sarks had to figure out if they can win it
can the Longhorns win without Arch my column, they can
barely win with him, so it makes sense that there's
a reasonable chance they can. How about fact win without
him and that they were only tied when he left
the game, then they outscored their opponents seven to nothing
and won the game.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How about Diana Russini speaking of Sark.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, we could probably dig into what she did when
she makes a weekly appearance on the Lebatade Show. And
so that obviously came yesterday after her Sunday article where
she wrote three thousand words and at the very very
end of the article, in a final thoughts portion of
her notebook, she wrote that one sentence about Sark, which
relate re ended up pushing Sark's agents to put a
(03:45):
strongly worded statement about he is not this is not true.
And then Sark for about a minute of his postgame
press conference after they had just beaten Mississippi State, because
it's all happened the day of the game on Saturday,
just before their mid afternoon kickoff, and he said, it's
ridiculous we played that audio for you. It's ridiculous that
(04:06):
you guys in the media wasn't specific to the people
in the room. But us, like AC and myself and
everybody else in the country that's covering college football, you
guys all just ran with it. One person puts it
out there, and everyone just takes it and runs with
It's embarrassing for you. Well, in her subsequent interview or
subsequent guest appearance her the only point she made to
(04:27):
try to not make it sound like she was wrong
or made it up, was nobody said he's committed to Texas.
That's what I was waiting to hear. Wasn't in the statement.
Zark didn't say that either. But if you go and
listen to all the things that she did say, and
we do have some body language readers on the X platform,
this is very best of X type of stuff. You
(04:48):
could even tell by the way she was deflecting it.
She had no one idea what to say, because as
people who don't have to back up their what they say,
like we do.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh can you not? How many more ways can she
tell she made it?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like a very eighteen semantics segment type of situation.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, well she didn't say this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, the people I didn't get the information from Sark
and his agent. It's not like they called me and said, hey,
report this. No kidding, no kidding, they didn't do that.
It's very obvious now all parties could absolutely be playing
the game. It's that happens all the time, especially when
you wonder aloud, and I wonder aloud all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why would agents give stories?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Why? I mean, you might have a nice relationship with
the reporter, and you may have some good rapport over
the years, but there is an element of you scratch
my back all scratch yours and if the agent thinks
the media the public knowing stuff can help their cause.
Whether it's a coach getting a new gig, where there's
a coach getting a raise, whatever, my coach is drawing
(05:49):
interest all over the country because this person reported it.
Would you mind reporting this? I'm telling you it's true.
But now I'm literally giving you the information because I
wanted out there. Why don't you do me a favor
and go ahead and write about this. I'm giving you this. Well, conversely,
it may work the other way. I don't know what
this does for anybody, whether he's whether it's like, why
(06:10):
would you want that out there? You can do that
all you want. He's not coaching this year, to get
a raise from Texas. He's not coaching this year to
get another college job. So if he wants an NFL job,
just go ahead and take it, go ahead and interview
for it, and take it whenever the time comes. If
he were in a different situation, like if they were
still holding on to the same ranking they had when
(06:30):
the year began, which was one, then things would be
a little bit different. He would be the hottest coach
in the He'd be hotter than Lane Kiffen. Everybody, including
Texas who's already re upped with him, would be angling
to do it again so they wouldn't lose him in
the momentum and what they're building there.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You know, in that vein.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I've thought about this a lot because it's you know,
first you have the tiers of conferences, you know, the
SEC and everyone else. Because the SEC's one, Well that's
because it just means more. But it just means more
to coach in the SEC as well. It's not just
playing in the SEC. How And maybe I'm asking the
wrong person this because not only do you have someone there.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you also are a graduate of this school.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Ye, my degree is right there in the closet collecting
dust I dusted off every couple of years.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It like, how how many jobs no matter, don't think
about how they're doing right now from a play standpoint,
How many jobs in this country are really better than Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, that's the conversation we've gotten into. I think with
Dan Lanning, whose name is out there, like, is it
really a better situation for him to leave Oregon? Is
it really a better situation for Sark to leave Texas
from one SEC school presumably to another. You wouldn't leave
for Penn State. I wouldn't imagine you'd leave for Florida State,
which will likely be open at the end of the year,
or any of the number of other schools. The other
(07:54):
jobs that are open are all SEC jobs, and they're
probably going to be more of them. You could make
more money, because that's movement means money. When you move,
you make more money. Or is LSU a better job
than Texas? What do you mean by then it's up
to you to decide what's better. Is it better to
have in your lifetime, on your lifelong resume, on your
coaching legacy. I want a national title at Texas. I
(08:16):
want a national title at LSU. I would think it's
actually better to say it at Texas considering, well, they
had some national titles when they won them with the
guy who the stadium's named after, and then they won
one other, yeah, with Mac and they is definitely there.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But I, in my opinion, I think that is a
lateral move. I don't think one's better than the other. No,
either way, I really don't. You know an ole Miss
is that different? Is a move to LSU. I think
that's a tier down.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's why I think that many people believe that could have.
But he's also not at that He's not coaching like
that this year. They're they're not playing that kind of
football this year. And maybe it doesn't even matter to anyone,
But yeah, I think like the landing at Texas, like
you like Kaylin de boor, he's the Alabama head coach, right,
he doesn't lose any games the rest of the year,
and they win the conference, they win the conference title game,
and then they win the playoffs and they win the
(09:05):
national title.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
There, you're not poaching him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
He's at Alabama, right, That's what And that's what I
was about to say, just like I just said that
ole Miss is a tier down. I think we're talking
about the SEC. So it's like an embarrassment of riches
in every direction. You look, even at Vanderbilt. Just kidding,
but like the big game this week, I know they
do have. But what I'm saying is, whereas LSU in
Texas right now, I mean are probably like right here,
(09:30):
I'm doing an even side by side with my hands
because we're on TV.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, prior to Brian Kelly, the three consecutive coaches won
a national title there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right, but I still think that they're like lateral movements.
Whereas because of only because of what Nick Saban recently did,
is Alabama a next tier up?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know, if Alabama's job opened right like any school,
but that's what happened when Sark or when Saban left.
I mean, shouldn't we just go get Sark? I mean,
this is a big job. I mean, he's familiar with
the program, he's doing well here. This is the guy
we should target. This is the guy we should overpay
or pay as much money as we have. They ended
up getting a coach who was playing for the national
(10:11):
title instead, and now it could be again with new school.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The prominence factor like I mean, there's probably two arguments
to be made one way or the other when it
comes to like Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, there's also history to discuss.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
This conversation we'll continue to have because things are not
changing anytime soon for stability. They're gonna change for more
instability as we move forward through this college football season,
and clearly once the regular season twelve games get played
in a handful of conference title games, maybe there's gonna
be a lot more opening.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So there's gonna be a lot more movement.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
There's gonna be the ridiculous period between well should I
keep coaching my team even though I'm recruiting for the
team that I'm now working for. Just oddity in college football.
Best of X and hopefully soon hearing from Demiico Ryans
and CJ.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Stroud.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
That's what's in front of you here on The A Team.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety
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