Sam Khan Jr.
@skhanjr.bsky.social
✍🏽 Senior writer The Athletic
🏈 Covering CFB roster management + transfer portal
🤠 aka “the Texpert"
🌸 RIP Ed Aschoff
🔴 University of Houston alum
💰 #LongLiveTheSWC
🏈 Covering CFB roster management + transfer portal
🤠 aka “the Texpert"
🌸 RIP Ed Aschoff
🔴 University of Houston alum
💰 #LongLiveTheSWC
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Kent State about to get their fifth win!
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This has been easily the best year in human history for dudes named Mark Carney stepping into troubled situations and stabilizing them
Kent State about to get their fifth win!
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This has been easily the best year in human history for dudes named Mark Carney stepping into troubled situations and stabilizing them
Kent State about to get their fifth win!
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Kent State about to get their fifth win!
Cortez Braham is an absolute stud.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Cortez Braham is an absolute stud.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Definitely. As someone who has seen many a coach leave for greener pastures when my alma mater wasn't in a power conference, I get it.
That said: North Texas is a good G5 job. Good AD, good facilities, great recruiting location. They need a bigger roster budget (who doesn't?) but you can win there.
That said: North Texas is a good G5 job. Good AD, good facilities, great recruiting location. They need a bigger roster budget (who doesn't?) but you can win there.
I hate it for UNT, but totally knew it was coming.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Definitely. As someone who has seen many a coach leave for greener pastures when my alma mater wasn't in a power conference, I get it.
That said: North Texas is a good G5 job. Good AD, good facilities, great recruiting location. They need a bigger roster budget (who doesn't?) but you can win there.
That said: North Texas is a good G5 job. Good AD, good facilities, great recruiting location. They need a bigger roster budget (who doesn't?) but you can win there.
Oklahoma State nailed its hire.
If Eric Morris can bring Drew Mestemaker (and maybe DC Skyler Cassity + RB Caleb Hawkins, too?) the Pokes can be in a bowl game or better in 2026, IMO.
Regardless of what happens next year, Morris has shown he can do more with less. www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
If Eric Morris can bring Drew Mestemaker (and maybe DC Skyler Cassity + RB Caleb Hawkins, too?) the Pokes can be in a bowl game or better in 2026, IMO.
Regardless of what happens next year, Morris has shown he can do more with less. www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
Oklahoma State hiring North Texas’ Eric Morris to replace Mike Gundy
Oklahoma State will turn to North Texas' Eric Morris as its next head coach, who coaches the nation's leading passer Drew Mestemaker.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Oklahoma State nailed its hire.
If Eric Morris can bring Drew Mestemaker (and maybe DC Skyler Cassity + RB Caleb Hawkins, too?) the Pokes can be in a bowl game or better in 2026, IMO.
Regardless of what happens next year, Morris has shown he can do more with less. www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
If Eric Morris can bring Drew Mestemaker (and maybe DC Skyler Cassity + RB Caleb Hawkins, too?) the Pokes can be in a bowl game or better in 2026, IMO.
Regardless of what happens next year, Morris has shown he can do more with less. www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
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Good hire for them. No idea if they'll ever get any money but Morris has the No. 1 offense in college football this year with what @skhanjr.bsky.social has reported is a $2 million roster budget (i.e. less than Mestemaker would personally make next year if he went into the portal)
SOURCE: Oklahoma State is targeting North Texas head coach Eric Morris to be its next head coach, @theathletic.com has learned.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Good hire for them. No idea if they'll ever get any money but Morris has the No. 1 offense in college football this year with what @skhanjr.bsky.social has reported is a $2 million roster budget (i.e. less than Mestemaker would personally make next year if he went into the portal)
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SOURCE: Oklahoma State is targeting North Texas head coach Eric Morris to be its next head coach, @theathletic.com has learned.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SOURCE: Oklahoma State is targeting North Texas head coach Eric Morris to be its next head coach, @theathletic.com has learned.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
North Texas is 10-1 this year, and Morris would finish the rest of the season with the Mean Green, including a potential conference title and CFP bid.
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UCLA tried a blind pitch fake FG and it worked about as well as you'd expect
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
UCLA tried a blind pitch fake FG and it worked about as well as you'd expect
UCLA just learned the hard way not to go full Les Miles unless you are Les Miles
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
UCLA just learned the hard way not to go full Les Miles unless you are Les Miles
Oh, Haynes King, no…
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oh, Haynes King, no…
North Texas QB Drew Mestemaker has attempted only 8 passes so far tonight and completed 6.
He has 252 passing yards and 3 TD.
He has 252 passing yards and 3 TD.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
North Texas QB Drew Mestemaker has attempted only 8 passes so far tonight and completed 6.
He has 252 passing yards and 3 TD.
He has 252 passing yards and 3 TD.
Lunch Winfield is a terrific football player name. I love it even more that it's a QB.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Lunch Winfield is a terrific football player name. I love it even more that it's a QB.
Who built Texas Tech's big-budget roster? Meet the unlikely architect who bet on himself.
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
How Texas Tech GM James Blanchard went from message boards to building a big-budget roster
How James Blanchard went from promoting recruits on message boards to being the architect of Texas Tech's big-budget roster revival.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Who built Texas Tech's big-budget roster? Meet the unlikely architect who bet on himself.
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
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Big fan of Rice-Eccles, and of Milan Puskar Stadium. Chris Kamrani @davidubben.bsky.social & @skhanjr.bsky.social have their own opinions of which Big 12 football stadiums are the best, most underrated and overrated? www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
Big 12 stadium superlatives: Favorites, most intimidating (and underwhelming) and more
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November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Big fan of Rice-Eccles, and of Milan Puskar Stadium. Chris Kamrani @davidubben.bsky.social & @skhanjr.bsky.social have their own opinions of which Big 12 football stadiums are the best, most underrated and overrated? www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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Six days after he was fired, James Franklin went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” and made it clear he wanted to coach again.
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Virginia Tech finalizing hiring James Franklin to be next coach: Source
“We’re just going to go win the national championship somewhere else now," Franklin said a week after being fired.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Six days after he was fired, James Franklin went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” and made it clear he wanted to coach again.
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
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NEWS: Virginia Tech is finalizing a deal to hire James Franklin as its new head football coach, a person briefed on the negotiations tells @chrisvannini.com.
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NEWS: Virginia Tech is finalizing a deal to hire James Franklin as its new head football coach, a person briefed on the negotiations tells @chrisvannini.com.
Baylor gave up 380 rushing yards tonight 😬
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Baylor gave up 380 rushing yards tonight 😬
Incredible!
That was the first onside kick of Kirby Smart’s tenure, per the school’s communications team.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Incredible!
Kirby Smart
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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Two Georgia drives, two Georgia touchdowns
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Two Georgia drives, two Georgia touchdowns
Baylor has allowed 180 rushing yards to Utah so far tonight.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Baylor has allowed 180 rushing yards to Utah so far tonight.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
kill the touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial broadcast sequence with fire please
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
kill the touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial broadcast sequence with fire please
According to Fox Sports, Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez is just the sixth player in the last 10 years to have an INT and a rushing TD in the same game.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
According to Fox Sports, Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez is just the sixth player in the last 10 years to have an INT and a rushing TD in the same game.