9/01/2024- Bill Catlett

 PROGRESS – Or Lack Of It – REPORT   From The Old SWC by Larry Carlson for https:// texaslsn.org It was an ugly breakup, as all breakups are.  No love lost. None found. Hurt feelings, hard feelings.   Splitsville. It followed the 1995 season.   Arkansas had jumped ship four years earlier.  But nobody in Texas really cared….

 Steve Ross writes For most of Coach Royal’s career, the NFL was an afterthought in terms of a full-time career. Most NFL players had off-season jobs. When that started to change, so did coach. Just look at his last 4 or 5 recruiting classes – that’s when more NFL-caliber players began showing up on campus:…

Jones Ramsey said, “ Darrell had charisma. A disease you can’t get rid of.” “Darrell was a sweet Bear Bryant,” However , Royal’s players never saw that side of him. Please go to this website’s “credit” section to view books you can purchase from many fine bookstores about Texas Longhorn Sports or visit the official…

THE HISTORY OF THE TEXAS VS. ARKANSAS SERIES- (IT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK) Larry BeSaw once interviewed DKR for a profile. He asked him what he was thinking when UT fell behind 14-0 to Arkansas in the 1969 game. “I thought we were going to tote home a whipped ass,” he replied.  Arkansas and…