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…
AVOID YES/NO QUESTIONS, PLEASE by Larry Carlson Larry interviewing Coach Akers I got my wife to proof this column and she made me scratch the lead and start over. “Get to the point,” she said. Sage advice. Especially since this is about interviews, good and bad. Once upon a time, I interviewed athletes every day. …
GOLDEN ARCH TOPS BIG EASY MENU by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Dateline: NEW ORLEANS, August 26 In the ol’ Crescent City, there’s always a checklist. Muffaletta and Pimm’s Cup at Napoleon House. Check Praline at Southern Candy. Check Staring out at barges on the Big Muddy. Check Mint Julep at The Columns. Check Walk…
Professor Larry Carlson FOOTBALL REVIEW/PREVIEW: 2022/2023 Commentary by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It’s daunting to stare at eight months of no college football. Talk about a dry January. Especially tough when your Longhorns have lost at least five games for the eleventh time in thirteen years (the Horns went 10-4 in 2018 and 7-3…
ABC’s For Sark, Vol. II by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu) Last spring I flippantly tossed out advice for Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian on this website, in the form of “The ABC’s for Sark.” I made it a take-off of actor Alec Baldwin’s classic cuss-fest as he tore into slacking employees at a real estate…
Don’t mess with my Longhorns FIFTY YEAR FOOTBALL FLASHBACK: Won’t Get Fooled Again by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) In March of 1971, University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal approached spring drills knowing that an abundance of teaching and coaching was ahead. The famed “Worster bunch,” the greatest class of players…
Riddle me this, Batman: What do QB Casey Thompson, RB Bjian Robinson and WR Jake Smith of the Longhorns have in common, other than the rather obvious ability to be explosive playmakers for Coach Steve Sarkisian’s first edition of Texas football. Answer: They’re all from outside the Lone Star State. THE OUTSIDERS by…
West Texas Longhorn football heritage “I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.” President George W. Bush West Texas Wild As The West Texas Wind by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) West Texas skies Balmorhea straight Highways Burnt Orange skies It is a…
Were I ranking all these East Texas players on pro careers, things could be, would be greatly different. Some guys were “only” great college players. College careers are what I based my picks on. Otherwise, for one example, Bradley would be the first team in the defensive backfield. But at Texas, he only played there…
In the Texas of old and the Lone Star State of novels and Hollywood–“Giant” written by Edna Ferber and then filmed near Marfa with Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean — the cattle were plentiful, the oil was gushing and the townfolk were from, well, small towns. Not cities and metropolitan areas of millions…