Build it and they will come
“If you build it, they will come” has always been the vision and mission of the TLSN Board of Directors.
Texas Legacy Support Network Is The 21st Century Equivalent Of The Baseball Stadium In The Cornfield. TLSN Has Built Bridges To The past, reminding Longhorns that Heritage Shapes The Present And Inspires The Future. There Is No Better Goal For Individuals And Institutions Than Building Bridges For Those Who Will Follow. Athletes as heroes are character builders for young boys. Dan Jenkins says in his book “I Will Tell You One Thing.”
“seeing … heroes live and in action had something to do with making me want to try to achieve something big or little in the world of sports …instead of trying to be Al Capone, or, perhaps even worse, a politician.”
The Memory Time Machine
The Carousel slides act as a trigger, reminding the brain what the heart and soul have never forgotten.
In the movie series “the Mad Men,” the marketing guru Don Draper is trying to procure an advertising contract for a new unnamed gadget. By the time Don’s presentation is complete, the device has a name- the “carousel.”
In the video below, Don Draper defines the Carousel as a nostalgic photo time machine that creates a “twinge in your heart for more powerful than memory alone .” This video delivers both profound and emotional memories derived from the heart.
The TLSN website is a nostalgic carousel time machine full of many Longhorn sports moments that create “twinges from the heart when triggered by a photo stimulus.
Enjoy the Longhorn sports history Carousel as presented by TLSN, Inc.
June 21, 2009
Bill Little, Texas Media Relations
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Baseball, perhaps more than any sport, is a game of father and son. In the poignant scene from Augie’s friend Kevin Costner’s “Field of Dreams,” the climactic moment of the movie isn’t a home run or a grand finale — it is that scene when a ghost and his son play a game of catch, recapturing a time that is gone, but not forgotten.
Grown men have cried over that scene. Sons wishing they could do that one more time with their dad, and dads yearning for one last moment with kids who have long since grown and gone away.
In that moment, it was part of a mosaic that has been a part of the fabric of the American family. It is the mom who gets the little girls ready for the dance recitals, and the dads who pack the gear for the next game, in the next place.
It is about family, and most of all, it is about heart. About a time that will live forever, caught between the mind and the soul, where dreams and hopes never really go away.
1916 – THE BUILDING OF THE LONGHORN BRAND BEGINS IN FULL FORCE
Building the Longhorn Brand requires a wedding vow commitment between fans and student-athletes
By 1916, all major Universities realized that sports did a better job of increasing academic standards, school loyalty, and student enrollment than promoting the educational benefits of the school.
So the race was on, and a building boom followed for sports facilities nationwide.
There is no Longhorn brand, as we know it, without the sweat equity of former Horn student-athletes.
This section of the TLSN website celebrates the Longhorn brand building blocks one Longhorn at a time.
Click on Ben Crenshaw’s oral history to follow the pathway to other stories captured by TLSN of 45 Longhorn brand builders at https://www.texaslsn.org/ben-crenshaw The list of Brand builders is organized alphabetically by their first name.
In Kern Tips Book “Football Texas Style,” he states that each of us has “keepsakes pressed between the pages of a memory book’. I hope this website will open that memory box so you can once again experience Longhorn sports as the universal language of the Longhorn nation. Each of us has left something behind to make our University great.
“If you build it, they will come.”
Legacy Longhorns have built it!
Leaving Something Behind
Manny Diaz nailed it. Life is, after all, about bridges, and tomorrows that reach for something new and something greater.
A Bond That Lasts
The inspiration for the TLSN (Texas Legacy Support Network) mission started informally in 2004 when some Legacy Longhorn student athletes assisted a few former letter winners who needed temporary financial support. The money donated was used to help one teammate rebuild his home destroyed by fire, another teammate recover from damages caused by a hurricane, and several teammates defray medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Most of the subject matter on the TLSN website is historical in nature. The site Is dynamic -not static. Revisions, additions, and new content are added on a weekly basis and every other week there a newsletter sent to the TLSN email list. The site is free. All you need is curiosity to visit.
In 2021 TLSN Reached Silver Star Status on GuideStar
Horns Up!
Board of Directors: Sheryl Hauglum, Beth Coblentz, Jim Kay, Ben Adams, and Billy Dale. All proud T-Ring recipients.
