Add the challenges that already existed in coaching college football, and it’s a lot.

With options thin on both sides, could Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys decide to run it back for the 2025 season?

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983 and the Dallas Cowboys since 1990, is the author of two best-selling books on the Cowboys.

Steve Sarkisian has been able to transform the Texas Longhorns in the four seasons he has been with the program.

A national report says the Cowboys could lure Sark from Texas … Unless they can’t. What is it we are doing here?

The first name that drew widespread attention after McCarthy's departure was Deion Sanders. But three others are getting interviews.

Steve Sarkisian turned down NFL head coaching interest before agreeing to a Texas extension. More at Pro Football Rumors.

Sarkisian recently led the Longhorns to their second consecutive appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

Steve Sarkisian parlayed back-to-back College Football Playoff semifinal appearances into an extension — and not another job.

It comes after Sarkisian already agreed to four-year extension in 2024, which bumped his yearly salary to more than $10 million.

The best way to stop the Longhorns’ Red River stampede would seem to be the departure of Sarkisian. And unless Arch Manning is a bust, 2025 Texas football appears armed for another playoff assault.