Tuesday evening Cardinal news and notes
Share this story Tomahawk Nation celebrates FSU’s win over the Cards. The CJ counts down the five best U of L women’s basketball teams of the Jeff Walz era. Carlik Jones is just as fed up with the slow starts as the rest of us.
Graduate transfer point guard
Carlik Jones, who led the team with 17 points, admitted that UofL didn’t come ready to play from the tip. That it wasn’t so much as the team not being up to the challenge, it just wasn’t mentally ready from the go.
Dan Le Batard kept his podcast feed as part of his ESPN severance package Dan Le Batard s podcast audience won t have to find a new feed to keep listening to his shows.
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When someone leaves a network, sports or otherwise, they often lose access to fans on podcast and video platforms. Sometimes, channels and feeds are left to wither and die. Other times, they’re rebranded, sometimes to a relevant and related brand (like when SB Nation flipped their @SBNationCFB account into the Banner Society branding) and sometimes not. And then there are the occasions where the old feeds are simply killed outright, which you usually see when an employee (or brand) is let go under spiteful or justified circumstances (or if the company has no idea what they’re doing with their digital strategy).
Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Report: Texas DC Chris Ash might end up joining Florida, Dan Mullen
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With Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman out, and Steve Sarkisian in, there’s not much reason to think defensive coordinator Chris Ash plans, or will be asked, to stick around for 2021. According to 247Sports, Chris Ash is in talks with the Florida Gators, where he could potentially join head coach Dan Mullen in the same, or similar, position.
From 247Sports: “Ash will be considered a prime candidate for Florida’s staff. So far, Ash coached just one season at Texas as the defensive coordinator when he was under former coach Tom Herman. Ash’s defense finished 64th in the nation in total defense and 61st in scoring defense as the 7-3 Longhorns yielded 28.5 points per game.”
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Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Texas HC Steve Sarkisian was reportedly set to take over for Nick Saban at Alabama
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On Monday’s episode of “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, college football analyst claimed there handshake agreement between Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban and Alabama offensive coordinator-turned-Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian that the young disciple would take over for Saban when he decided to eventually hang up his hat.
“They did have an agreement, whether it was on paper or a handshake, with Steve Sarkisian to be the heir apparent,” Klatt said to Cowherd, according to 247Sports. “That is true. And Steve took the Texas job. And more power to him. And that’s a job that is hard to turn down, in particular when you think of coming in the footsteps of Nick Saban.”
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Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Op-ed: Tom Herman’s firing, multi-million dollar payout ‘bad national publicity’ for Texas during pandemic
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A new opinion piece in the
Austin American-Statesman pulls no punches at the Texas Longhorns, after the university opted to pay out roughly $20 million to recently fired head coach Tom Herman and his coaching staff. Notably, this was during a pandemic.
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Statesman: “Educational and human values aside, the consequences of this firing and hiring are bad national publicity. Even Sports Illustrated sees the callous irony that UT athletics, after laying off 35 people, not filling another 35 positions and having almost 300 employees take a temporary pay cut, effectively is throwing away over $20 million. Money is critically needed elsewhere at UT Austin for academics and outreach initiatives. One response, of course, will be that the money for coaches comes from private donors. No matter. It is the moral re