The winding road to Burnt Orange
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The winding road to Burnt Orange

The Road to Burnt Orange While all Dorothy had to do was follow the yellow brick road, finding the Longhorn burnt orange road was as elusive as finding a pot of gold somewhere over the rainbow . It has been said that “what starts here (Texas) changes the world.” If that is so, struggling to…

The Winding Road  to Title IX
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The Winding Road to Title IX

Title 9 is concerned with athletic opportunities, while big-time football is concerned with marketing and university relations. Title nine is about benefits to student-athletes. Football is about benefits to the institution. In June 1968, Homer Babbage, the president of the University of Connecticut, gave a talk about the National Association of collegiate athletic directors in…