Injuries are an unfortunate part of any competitive sport, especially a contact sport like football. But that doesn’t mean it’s ever a good idea to make light of injuries, much less brag about your team causing them against your opponent. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian seemed to do during his postgame press conference on Saturday.
After Texas’ 20-17 win over the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday, Sarkisian used his postgame press conference to highlight his team’s toughness. But he did so by bizarrely bragging about how many injuries the team caused.
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‘I think they had eight guys carted off’
On Friday, Bruce Feldman of The Athletic quoted an anonymous coach from a team that had already played Texas this season, saying that the Longhorns are “soft everywhere.”
Clearly, Sarkisian took exception to that, and he used the injuries his team caused throughout the game as evidence that his team is not “soft.”
“I think they had eight guys get carted off, so I’m not sure who wrote the article today and what coach said, ‘We weren’t a physical football team,'” Sarkisian said after the game via VolQuest’s Ryan Schumpert. “They might want to write another article.”
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It’s worth noting that Sarkisian isn’t even correct. Tennessee did not have eight players carted off with an injury – that would be an astronomical number of players to use an injury cart over the course of a game. While there were some players who went down with injuries throughout the game, Tennessee did not even have a single player “carted off” with an injury.
These comments look especially bad in hindsight after USC linebacker Desman Stephens was seen celebrating after knocking Oregon quarterback Dante Moore out of the game with an illegal hit, sparking widespread outrage.
Sarkisian blasts ‘look at me’ society
That was not the only bizarre thing that Sarkisian said during his postgame press conference.
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During Saturday’s game, Texas superstar pass rusher Colin Simmons was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for “simulating using the restroom” after one of his five sacks on the day. After the game, Sarkisian blamed the “look at me” society for Simmons’ actions, and even claimed that the media in attendance participate in this “look at me” society by posting on social media.
“Unfortunately, in our society right now, we live in the ‘look at me’ society,” Sarkisian said via Tyler Lauletta of Awful Announcing. “All of you guys have your Twitter accounts, and as fast as you can type something because you want everyone to look at your account, and you get clicks. Well, that’s the world that we live in. So we’ve got to get to —it’s about the team and focus on the team, and not so much ‘look at me.’ So we’ll try to improve upon that, but five sacks was pretty cool today too.”
Needless to say, it was a pretty eventful postgame press conference.
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