Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian railed against the transfer portal back in November, claiming that agents are planting negative seeds into the heads of players and their families. Now, though, his program is pursuing one of the most expensive stars in the portal, former Auburn Tigers receiver Cam Coleman.
ESPN LA's Su’a Cravens, a former USC Trojans safety and 2016 NFL second-round draft pick, took aim at Sarkisian's double-speak on Friday, considering the multi-million dollar price tag that Coleman is set to attract on the open market.
"Whoa whoa whoa Mr. Sarkesian!!! Didn’t you say the University of Texas doesn’t entertain bidding wars or these random numbers guys agents are throwing out there and you only want kids that want to be apart of something great at UT and not chasing a bag," Cravens prefaced before saying, "Surely that remains consistent when it comes to Mr. Coleman right ??! I mean most of us know the numbers being thrown out there for his services , SURELY Texas isn’t in some sort of bidding war righttttttt?"
Coleman's decision seemingly already led Parker Livingstone out of Austin. At this point, the Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies are set to go to war, some might say, a bidding war, for the underperforming former Tiger.
Will they get the ball-dropper in the Iron Bowl who didn't transcend with his play against an Alabama Crimson Tide secondary that definitively proved to be vulnerable during their 38-3 Rose Bowl loss to the Indiana Hoosiers?
Or will one of the Lone Star State's big spenders end up with the player Auburn was hoping to get from the Central (Phenix City) Red Devils legend?
Time will tell. Imminently, though, someone is going to spend a bag on Coleman.
And if it's Sark, well, that's something he specifically said he wasn't interested in doing when he was on the losing end of it roster-wise. In that case, fair call-out from Cravens.