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Houston head football coach Dana Holgorsen is delighted to have his program in the Big 12 for the first time. But with Texas leaving and Texas A&M having departed nearly a decade ago, he weighed in on the schools that are leaving the conference.
During his recent radio show, Holgorsen admonished the Longhorns and Aggies for leaving the conference. He said that the Big 12 doesn’t want them anymore anyway so they can do whatever they want.
“Screw them. They can go wherever they want. They don’t want us & we don’t want them,” Holgorsen said.
That might be a bit of copium on Holgorsen’s part. Texas A&M and Texas probably wouldn’t have joined the SEC if they didn’t have overwhelming value to add to the conference.
But Houston fans loved seeing Holgorsen go after the two Texas-based schools:
Houston’s Dana Holgorsen asked on his radio show about how departures of Texas & Texas A&M made Big 12 less desirable, said UT/A&M were reason why Cougars were left out of Big 12 for nearly 3 decades. “Screw them. They can go wherever they want. They don’t want us & we don’t want…
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 30, 2023
“The Big 12 should be so much fun this year with all of the animosity. It’s only going to get more heated,” one user wrote.
“Starting to think this Big 12 will be a lot of fun this year,” wrote a Baylor fan.
“Gotta love Dana man! Says what’s on his and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks,” a third said.
Houston play Texas on October 21. They don’t have Texas A&M anywhere on their regular season schedule for a while though.