Longhorn Walking on videos – The Spirit cannot be suppressed
Enjoy these Videos each is very uplifting and says a lot about the Longhorn walk-on athlete whose dream of a scholarship is realized.
Below is the song referred to in the first video.
Brandon Burlsworth Award In 2010 a trophy was named after Brandon Burlsworth an All-American football player from the University of Arkansas who began his career as a walk-on. I think the University of Texas should also honor the best walk-on every 5th year. If there had been such an award in 1968, Stan Mauldin would…
Don Hays In 1988 I was a walk on DT for Texas. We were not on the travel squad for OU game. Instead we were given tickets in the Texas section. There was a group of older gentlemen sitting behind us and all wearing burnt orange. We struck up a conversation with them during timeouts, injuries,…
Important: Bill Little’s article is about walk-ons Cade McCrary and Nate Boyer. So, each can be celebrated individually. TLSN shares their separate stores, but there are still some overlapping comments about Cade and Nate in the comments below. Nate Boyer When the Longhorns convened for their first team meeting this week, the coaches and staff…
05.12.2020 | Football Edited version of recent TexasSports.com about Shawn Izadi had been added to the History of Longhorn Walkons. Shawn’s whole article is at the link listed below in red font. https://texassports.com/news/2020/5/12/former-football-walk-on-and-longhorn-band-member-graduates-med-school.aspx?fbclid=IwAR29G47Gyv2QPFZ6oxBcx_0wl9dmhnkvgHxuwO2kxHXrB-U7pzHH0104mxU Former Football walk-on and Longhorn Band Member graduates med school Shawn Izadi, who balanced the challenges of school, football and playing in the Longhorn…
Foreword by Billy Dale Thanks to a TLSN Facebook subscriber, Marcy Johnson, Donny Eckhardt Jr.’s story is now chronicled in the walk-on section of TLSN. Donny shares some wonderful memories of the Texas and Texas A&M games. But what intrigued me most was that he was a walk-on at Texas. Many may not realize that…