The Dallas Cowboys are officially in the head coaching market, and they would be wise to look at Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian as their next leading man.

Could Texas’ Steve Sarkisian be the next coach of the Cowboys? With Dallas cutting ties with Mike McCarty, Sark’s name is being mentioned.

Getty Image By waiting to officially part ways with former head coach Mike McCarthy, the Dallas Cowboys placed themselves behind the eight ball

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

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.

While Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian has already turned down any potential leap to the NFL. The threat of the NFL looking to the Longhorns' staff for potentia

In fact, college football insider Brett McMurphy says Sarkisian turned down two interviews with NFL teams. After declining the interviews, Sarkisian has signed a contract extensio

If Dallas Cowboys fans weren’t upset with team owner Jerry Jones for the way he handled parting ways with former head coach Mike McCarthy, they certainly are

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

Paul Finebaum believes that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones may be interested in Texas coach Steve Sarkisian as a head coaching candidate.

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

"I'm speculating - recklessly perhaps - that Jerry Jones has someone in mind that he wants to see if he can get.'' - ESPN's Mike Greenberg, projecting a Steve Sarkisian move from the Longhorns to the Cowboys.