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IS UT READY FOR IT TO MEAN MORE? 7/29/2022 by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Professor Larry Carlson interviewing Randy McEachern in 1977 I will say this. It’s gonna be loud when Texas and Alabama tee it up in Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium on a crispy, not crisp, early autumn morning in…
The Texas Legacy Support Network (TLSN) is an independent organization not associated with the University of Texas or any organization closely aligned with U.T. TLSN has two missions: sharing the history of all Longhorn sports and offering temporary financial assistance to those who qualify. On April 29th, 2017, TLSN made intercollegiate athletic sports history. TLSN…
Fix the environment not the flower For many of you, the following article will represent old-school thought. However, Old-school winning recruiting formulas should not be dismissed as old-fashioned. Indeed, recruiting techniques and rules that govern the game have changed dramatically, but the winning principles have not. Team-focused football players who are blessed with innate intangibles…
Dana LeDuc’s Mean and Tough list from the Aker’s era. 2022- Coach Vermeil with Dana at the NFL Hall of Fame ceremony. I recognize Dana’s sandals as a reproduction of one made in the late 1960s. ???? I think my mother has mine in the attic in Odessa. Billy, Going back in time, these are…
CHERRY LEMONADE by Larry Carlson Unless they lived through the worst home loss in UT history, Longhorn fans likely don’t recall the name of Marty Cherry. The sophomore from the Arkansas side of Texarkana got a rough football baptism as a relief pitcher for the eleventh-ranked Horns on a hot mid-September day in 1997. A…
The iconic ” steelhead” logo of the Texas Longhorns athletic teams and the burnt orange color worn by them were the result of the work of one man: William “Rooster” Andrews. In 1961, coach Darrell Royal talked to Andrews, who at at time was a salesman for C&S Sporting Goods, about ways to improve the…