Dr. Freud … Calling Dr. Freud … Hey, good doctor, what in the world’s wrong with Steve Sarkisian?

Maybe you saw this, maybe you didn’t. But after Texas came back in dramatic fashion to beat Ohio State on Saturday night, ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe, who many here in Utah are more than familiar with because she has long made her home here, approached him to do a now-traditional postgame interview. Not so much an interview, but a quick chat.

And Sark blew her off. He purposely stood next to her long enough for the camera to dial in and then, when she started in on a question, the former BYU quarterback and current Texas coach mumbled a couple of words and said something along the lines of, “Texas fight. Hook ‘em.” He showed the Longhorn “Hook ‘em” hand signal and walked off, leaving Rowe standing there, her question half-asked. Stiffed and ticked, she stormed away.

You may be tired of the sometimes-trite postgame TV interviews that have become so common these days. They often are more celebratory than they are compelling. On some occasions, they descend to no more than, “Yay, coach! What were you feeling when your team won?”

But for Sarkisian to respond the way he did in that moment was pathetic.

OK, he might have been overly amped on account of such an exciting win, coming in such an emotional way. It was big. It was emotional. We get that. Maybe he was angry about some previous perceived injustice about something or other with the network. Maybe the questions would have been less than riveting or particularly useful for Sarkisian.

Maybe he was still irked about a similar on-field interview before halftime being held up due to technical issues — a Texas spokesperson told The Athletic those difficulties arose once again postgame, which played a role in Sarkisian’s demeanor with Rowe.

Still, now and again in that setting, a coach actually offers up something of interest — not just for the sideline reporter, but for the fans who take the time to watch the game, who invest their own interest and emotion in the endeavor. Sarkisian and all coaches in college football and in every sport deemed worthy of televising should show respect for the people who watch, whether those people are rooting for or against their team.

These coaches make millions and millions of dollars. They owe a little something to the fans, to observers, in this case, of the college game. Perhaps they also owe something to the networks that pay a gazillion dollars to teams and conferences to televise games, dollars that find their way through the system to the wallets and bank accounts of coaches like Sarkisian.

If he’s a decent man, he’d be embarrassed. Part of that could be bias on my part since I’ve spent nearly five decades interviewing coaches and players after games, seeking answers to any number of questions about what just happened.

I remember doing that many times with Sarkisian when he quarterbacked BYU for two seasons back in the ’90s. I remember longtime Cougar offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who recruited Sarkisian out of the JC ranks, telling me: “We’ve got a winner in this kid.”

And I remember Sarkisian talking about how happy he was to play college football because, he said, “It’s fun.” He said that’s the reason he started playing football when he was young, and from that point forward he was going to enjoy it and “have fun.”

Maybe coaching college football isn’t quite as happy and fun.

At BYU, in his first year, he struggled at times through a rough season, saying: “That’s what was so frustrating; the harder I tried, the worse it got.”

Success came the next season, one of the most memorable in BYU’s history, ending in a Cotton Bowl victory over K-State. But Sarkisian, despite what he said he was going to do, transitioned over that time from an often-eager and willing participant to — at least at times — a super-sensitive kid who bristled when he faced criticism, who barked back at fans on occasion, and who went on to … yeah, coach football for a living.

He’s had his ups and downs, getting fired at USC for personal reasons, reasons that went far past football. And he’s come back to find a measure of success at Texas, and at places in between. He certainly had to feel some of that happy fun on Saturday night.

Nobody’s perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. Sarkisian has been controversial from time to time, and he’ll likely go on being that. Whatever. But dissing someone like Rowe, when she was simply doing her job, was regrettable, whether or not Sarkisian himself regretted being a jerk. It’s not that hard to show respect — to a reporter and, more importantly, to football fans.