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Bill Little commentary: ‘S’ has more than one meaning Bill Little, Texas Media Relations So let’s take these one at a time. Important: Bill Little’s article is about walk-ons Cade McCrary and Nate Boyer. So each can be celebrated individually, TLSN shares their separate stores, but in the comments below, there are still some overlapping…
Johnathan Wells says about John Herrera, Herrera went on to attend the University of Texas and walked on with the Longhorn football team. How long he was with the program and how many games he appeared in is unclear from the records and contemporary news articles I’ve been able to find. His name does not…
Todd Smith 1987-1990 Nathan Kaspar says of football players like Todd Smith, “ It is important to know that an athlete who chooses to accept being a walk-on does so because he wants to play at Texas.” Todd Smith had scholarship offers to Arkansas and Mississippi, but he declined both offers because he wanted to…
05.12.2020 | Football Edited version of recent TexasSports.com about Shawn Izadi had been added to the History of Longhorn Walkons. Shawn’s whole article is at the link listed below in red font. https://texassports.com/news/2020/5/12/former-football-walk-on-and-longhorn-band-member-graduates-med-school.aspx?fbclid=IwAR29G47Gyv2QPFZ6oxBcx_0wl9dmhnkvgHxuwO2kxHXrB-U7pzHH0104mxU Former Football walk-on and Longhorn Band Member graduates med school Shawn Izadi, who balanced the challenges of school, football and playing in the Longhorn…
TOP GUN; NATHAN KASPAR by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) There’s certainly no shortage of “Top Gun” mania across the nation this summer. A breath of fresh air for many Americans. At least one former Longhorn football player isn’t shy about the fact that he was inspired as a kid by the 1986 Tom Cruise…
Brandon Burlsworth Award In 2010 a trophy was named after Brandon Burlsworth an All-American football player from the University of Arkansas who began his career as a walk-on. I think the University of Texas should also honor the best walk-on every 5th year. If there had been such an award in 1968, Stan Mauldin would…