Less than two weeks after Texas coach Steve Sarkisian drew national attention for his “basket weaving” comments regarding Ole Miss, the Longhorns coach sought to clarify his remarks and called the SEC school “a fine institution.”Sarkisian, while speaking to reporters before an event at the Touchdown Club of Houston on Thursday, was asked if there was a reason he singled out Ole Miss when he decried different admission standards in schools’ abilities to take transfer students in an interview with USA Today. Sarkisian said “no” and clarified his comments by stating that he was speaking in a larger sense about the inequalities in college football, from football coaching staff budgets to roster budgets to conference scheduling and admissions.“The only reason the Ole Miss thing came up is because two of my best friends were there in Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding,” Sarkisian said. “And so, I know when we would compete with them that they were able to take kids and then they were able to graduate. I probably shouldn’t have used basket weaving as my example for the class, OK? Macroeconomics, I don’t give a damn, whatever the class is. Yoga, we have yoga at UT. The class part of it was irrelevant.”In his sit-down with USA Today earlier this month, Sarkisian said, “At Texas, we will only take 50 percent of a player’s academic credit hours. You may be a semester from graduating, but you’re going all the way back to 50 percent if you play here and want a degree. But at Ole Miss, they can take you. All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree.”On Thursday, he emphasized the volume of classes required to graduate from schools, rather than class types.“The point I was trying to make is, at UT, you have to complete half of your degree at the University of Texas, 60 hours. You have to do those 60 hours at UT to get a degree from the University of Texas,” Sarkisian said. “At a school like Ole Miss — I’ll reference them that way — they can take one class (after transferring) and get a degree (from Ole Miss). Maybe that one class is basket weaving, maybe that one class is macroeconomics, I don’t know, statistics, irrelevant. My point is that this was one of the inequalities and discrepancies that we deal with in college athletics.”Sarkisian went on to say that Ole Miss is a “fine institution” and that the basket weaving comment was just one small part of the interview.“That statement — but when you do a sit-down, one-on-one print article, it’s easier to pull out excerpts, to say, ‘Oh, coach Sark said you can go get a basket weaving degree at Ole Miss.’ That’s not what I was implying, and I apologize if they took it that way.“Ole Miss is a fine institution, they’ve got the great degrees, all the things there, but there is an inequality when it comes to transfers of who can transfer to us — or to Vanderbilt for that matter — and who can transfer to an Ole Miss.”Asked if he took basket weaving in college, Sarkisian said no.“I did not. I was a sociology major, though,” Sarkisian said. “It’s not exactly — I didn’t go to (Texas’) McCombs (School of Business), I can tell you that.”