Welcome to Bevo’s Fake Nuts, our weekly-ish column on the Texas Longhorns.
We were going to talk about how there’s another Cunningham over at Westlake and his name is Loch, but then this happened, and it’s so good.
Last week, if you missed it, Texas defensive lineman Moro Ojomo, a rising fifth-year senior who’s experienced 30 wins, 19 losses, and a 2-1 record against Big 12 rival Kansas, said he doesn’t like losing:
Today, we learned these comments did not sit well with Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian.
Now, Brian Davis might not want you to know this, but Ojomo did say more than just that he didn’t like Texas’s recent tradition of mediocrity. From a Sports Illustrated report on the same interview:
“It’s hard…18-20-year-old guys coming in caring about the wrong things instead of winning,” Ojomo said Thursday. “It needs to be players led, coaches fed. Coaches come and go…Players have to make a stand and basically say enough is enough. Like, 7-6 BS Texas isn’t happening no more.”
So, yeah, there are things there Sark is right to not like, specifically Ojomo saying explicitly that something like a fifth of the Longhorn roster doesn’t care about winning (hard to ‘chop that to hell,’ but that’s just me), and if Sark’s smart, he probably pulled Ojomo aside and said, “100%, you’re right, you get it, good work, don’t do that again but good message to send.” But man is this good. I mean, y’all set it on a tee. Texas Football Coach Says of Player Who Doesn’t Like Losing: He Won’t Be Talking For a While. But let’s not focus on that. Let’s focus on Ojomo, who is a quote machine. Remember this one last year?
Yep, same guy. The same man who wants God to know he’s trying (interesting that he didn’t include God as part of the UT alumni base—does that mesh with UT canon?) also wants his teammates to start trying. Which, yes. Respect. Again, Moro Ojomo is right. He’s been right the whole time. He continues to be correct.
The best thing that could happen here is for Moro Ojomo to become the spokesman for the University of Texas at Austin. UT’s generated a lot of bad blood in recent years. They ran a basketball coach out of town who was immensely popular with local fans. They tore down a classic arena where the Horns won three postseason games en route to their 2019 national championship. They’ve been an embarrassment on the football field, and their favorite neighbor (I’m talking about my dog, not me) moved back to the east side in February. Give Ojomo a microphone, though, and all will be forgiven. I don’t need a weekly radio show or anything like that. Just get this guy in front of a camera speaking his truth once a week from now until the time he leaves Austin. We want Moro this.
