AUSTIN, TX – He’s trying to stay out of it, he really is. But we’re long past that futile exercise. It’s not a matter of when he speaks up, but how.

So why not now?

When you’re the head coach at big, bad college sports behemoth Texas, when you’re the former coach at another mega program at USC, when you’ve worked under the greatest coach in college football history at Alabama, someone, at some point, wants your opinion.

“I try my best to not get consumed with how bad it is,” Steve Sarkisian says of college football’s five-year journey down the rabbit hole. ‘It just wears you out.”

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