Wait. Matthew McConaughey knows ball???
The Academy Award-winning actor and alumnus of the University of Texas recognized the Longhorns’ second NCAA Championship win on social media on Saturday night, about an hour after the Horns officially secured their record 17th title, five more than anyone else in history.
McConaughey’s post acknowledged thanked the swimmers for “the commitment” and acknowledged the legacy of former head swim coach Eddie Reese, who was responsible for the first 15 of those titles.
back to back mens swim nattys. Thanks for the commitment men. The Eddie Reese legacy still swims. https://t.co/lHnEnzobMP
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) March 29, 2026
Current head coach Bob Bowman took over the team last year and has led them to to their two most recent titles.
McConaughey has become something of a Texas superfan, appearing on the sideline at a number of the school’s sporting events. He has been unofficially declared Texas’ “Minister of Culture.”
Earlier in the day, he also recognized the women’s basketball team’s win in the Sweet 16 over the University of Kentucky, where his dad played football. He made an appearance at a women’s basketball practice earlier in the week.
had a pretty special practice visitor today 🤘#HookEm | @McConaughey pic.twitter.com/zcqvXTpEzj
— Texas Women’s Basketball (@TexasWBB) March 25, 2026
McConaughey’s films have grossed over $1.5 billion globally at the box office in his career, including blockbusters like Interstellar, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, Magic Mike, Failure to Launch, We are Marshall, Tropic Thunder, Two for the Money, and his breakthrough in the cult classic Dazed and Confused.
He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2014 for his work in Dallas Buyers Club.
McConaughey has a little bit of swimming skill himself: he competed in the 2008 Nautica Malibu Triathlon. He finished the sprint distance race in 1:43:48.3, completing the half-mile swim in 16:35.7.
McConaughey has 2.8 million followers on Twitter.
Happy for Texas with MM – We got stuck with Dolly.
VFE
We just had to sit through 2 NCAA meets that didn’t have B finals in an attempt to “grow the sport.” I’m guessing this social media post by a person with nearly 3 million followers may be more effective in growing the sport than anything the CSCAA did to the NCAA meet this year.
I’m sorry very off-subject but that photo is aura
lol “the commitment.” Buddy clearly doesn’t know that most of their scorers are transfers who had no intention of going to Texas until they got paid a bag/blindly followed Bob there
and for an actual answer: https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/883586
Just like every team there buddy. Sour grapes and jealousy
…you know by “the commitment” he doesn’t mean them committing to Texas, but the commitment to their goal by showing up and working hard every day this season, right?
3 out of 9 is not “most” in any definition of the word.
Clearly it was gonna be this schmuck🙄
…What is so objectionable about Matthew McConaughey? He seems about as down to earth as you can get for an A-list celebrity, and no one who has seen Dallas Buyers Club or True Detective can question his acting chops.
How can one possibly leave ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ off that list?
Oh he’s been in some stinkers too, that’s for sure. ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ isn’t even his worst rom-com. It’s practically ‘Annie Hall’ compared to ‘Failure to Launch’ and ‘Tiptoes’.
He’s a great bongo player too.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/matthew-mcconaughey-1999-nude-bongo-arrest-174327112.html
That’s what I meant when I said he’s down to earth for an A-lister. It’s not often I find myself able to relate to movie stars but that story is relatable AF.
We gonna pretend that Eddie wasn’t losing it at the end of his tenure?
LOL if winning a natty at age 79 (in 2021) is “losing it,” sign me up for losing it.
Was he losing a step? Sure. But winning that natty at 79, going 6-up in the 100 fly at NCAAs at 73, and taking Luke Hobson from a fairly unheralded arrival to an Olympic bronze and unfathomable SCY times in the 200 free in his final years just shows you how well he still understood the sport.
Has Durden lost it?
Eddie’s final 4 years: 1, 2, 3, 7
Durden’s last 4 years: 1, 2, 2, 7
If the alumni hadn’t screwed up the transition to a new coach and Eddie had been allowed to retire in 2021, he would have gone out a champion. And the loss of the meet in 2020 was tremendous as Texas was a team on a mission and was going to crush it. Scoff if you want, but that 2020 team was super pissed about 2019 and was more cohesive a team as anything I’ve ever seen. They were super focused on taking back the title. By 2024, people knew he was really leaving and there was too much uncertainty about the future of the program for everyone to commit. You can’t argue with how it worked out, but that wasn’t… Read more »
The 2020 Texas team is the greatest college men’s swim team. Shame we never got to see it in all its glory at NCAAs
Maybe, maybe not on the greatest. But if you remember the mission the San Antonio Spurs were on when they let a championship slip away to the Heat, and then came back the next year and took the championship series 4-1 (and it wasn’t even that close). Texas had that kind of focus for the 2020 season. Honestly one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen.
I know someone who was on that team. I’d put everything on the line they would have been the greatest NCAA men’s swimming team if we got to see it.
fake fan, where was he last year?
sad world when you can’t even joke around on swimswam anymore…
Probably a bandwagon just like 90% of the other texas fans in these comment sections less you and Mike in Dallas
Ok I laughed at this one.
Getting Aerosmith tickets..
Are you cool?
Shotgun…
MM is getting older but college swimmers stay the same age.
Yes they do.