COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin answered a single football question on Tuesday before the focus shifted to his job security and comments from a university system regent calling for his firing.
Sumlin cut off the reporter before the question was even done, no doubt prepared for it after the Aggies squandered a 34-point third-quarter lead in a loss to UCLA in their opener on Sunday night.
“People are frustrated,” he said. “I’m frustrated about a lot of things. I’m not real happy. I’m sure there’s a lot of things being said about this program.”
That includes what was posted on Facebook by regent Tony Buzbee, a Houston attorney.
“Our players were better tonight,” Buzbee wrote Sunday night after the stunning loss. “Our players were more talented tonight. But coaches were dominated on national TV, yet again. I’m only one vote on the Board of Regents but when the time comes my vote will be that Kevin Sumlin needs to GO. In my view he should go now. We owe it to our school and our players. We can do better.”