Texas Tech Calls Texas’ Bluff as Joey McGuire Fires Back at Sarkisian

It’s what people refer to as silly season in the college football world for several reasons, and the antics by several head coaches are all but showing why that’s the case. It’s ultimately all harmless at this point, but Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Joey McGuire isn’t willing to keep taking jabs without fighting back. After Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian publicly guffawed at the Red Raiders’ strength of schedule and said that his backups could run the table in the Big 12, McGuire’s retort is simple: prove it. McGuire is now turning those comments criticizing their schedule into a public challenge.

He even offered to buy out games against Texas State and Abilene Christian to make things feasible and is willing to host a neutral site game, arguing that at this point, he’d rather settle things on the football field. Texas Tech board of regents member Cody Campbell has even spoken to the Dallas Cowboys about hosting that potential matchup at AT&T Stadium.

It all comes after Sarkisian took public shots earlier this month as he claimed an in-state team had a schedule that was so soft that his twos and threes could go undefeated, with many connecting the dots of him referring to the Red Raiders.

To read more about McGuire’s public challenge, here is the full story from Red Raiders Roundtable writer Nick Teague.

It isn’t the sole instance of Sarkisian making headlines as of late after claiming that Ole Miss had such mediocre academic standards that they would allow transfers to major in “basket weaving.” This is now the second thing that has landed him in a bit of hot water in the public eye. Now, the ball is in their court, and the question is simple. Will Sarkisian rise to McGuire’s challenge?