Coach Fred Akers
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TLSN Volume VI Newsletter #16 06-25-2021 John Danks shares his memories of the 1977-1978 NIT championship “We were a team that would have been tough in the 1978 NCAA, despite our lack of size. We beat everyone, including 2 excellent SEC teams, MSU & LSU, OU, BYU, and three powerful Eastern Teams, Rutgers, Temple, and…
View in Browser Top of the Queue 11/02/2022 newsletter #25 To format the TLSN newsletter for cell phones, it is necessary to Click on the white-lettered “VIEW IN BROWSER” at the top of this page. Not doing so dimensions the quality of photos and the text font. Changing the Narrative HORNS DOWN TO THE GEORGIA…
View in Browser Volume VI TLSN Newsletter #4- 2/11/2021 HAPPY VALENTINES God rest his soul, Jim Blaylock was a unique character who was the head supervisor for equipment procurement and distribution. He dutifully administered Coach Royal’s directive to Cross-examine all players who wanted to replace a piece of sports equipment. He made DKR proud. From…
View in Browser Top of the Que- Volume V Newsletter #15 -June 11, 2021 https://texaslsn.org TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletics Department or any organization closely aligned with UT. TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History and assisting qualifying Horns who need temporary financial assistance. TLSN’s mission is to build bridges…
View in Browser H Christmas 2008 Looking Back Moving Forward In 2016 three former Longhorn student-athletes/managers -Jim Kay, Benny Pace, and Billy Dale- envisioned a free, insightful, historical, and educational newsletter to share and celebrate the history of Longhorn sports by those who created it. One hundred thirty newsletters later, we close-out 2020 with this…
Politics, Infractions, perceptions, and deceptions during the years 1976-1986 start the slow decline of Longhorn football that does not end until 1998. The Hiring of Fred Akers After Regent Erwin was replaced with Regent Shivers, Texas’s sports dynamics changed forever. But, Kirk Bohls says, “where Shivers was smoother than mink, Erwin was as subtle as…