No. 4 Texas’ 24-23 come-from-behind win over No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday night time in Austin, Texas was a showdown that was filled with drama.
However there was a unique form of drama at totally different factors of the night time between ESPN sideline reporters and Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian.
On the finish of Texas’ thrilling win, Hollie Rowe was making an attempt to start an interview with Sarkisian.
As Rowe began to ask her first query, Sarkisian already was speaking and yelled: Go Texas, combat! Let’s go Texas, combat! Hook ’em,” and walked away to have a good time along with his group and Rowe didn’t appear amused.
This adopted a first-half incident the place ESPN’s different sideline reporter, Laura Rutledge, tried to interview Sarkisian, however the community was having technical difficulties and the Texas head coach couldn’t wait longer and needed to speak to his group who was going through an enormous 20-3 first-half deficit.
Throughout that second, Rutledge acknowledged that Sarkisian had been ready some time and didn’t blame the coach for not ready to be interviewed.
Rutledge finally spoke with Sarkisian after Texas got here out of the locker room to start out the second half and clarified what occurred at halftime.
“I do need to be certain that we clear one thing up: (Sarkisian) did decline the interview on the half,” Rutledge stated earlier than the beginning of the third quarter. “He had waited a very long time, been very affected person with some technical points that we had. He apologized to us. We must be apologizing to him, which we did.”
Afterward, Hollie Rowe’s identify was trending on X as social media appeared to have extra of a subject day speaking in regards to the two incidents than the thrilling sport between two faculty soccer powerhouses.
