Volume VII newsletter #17 7/23/2022
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Sam Kendricks has passed away. The link below from Texassports.com shares his celebration of life. Horns Up !!
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The East Texas Longhorn All-Stars by Professor Larry Carlson
Professor Larry Carlson says “ if I was ranking all these East Texas players on pro careers, things could be, would be greatly different…….” however, “ College careers are what I based my picks on.” “If the list was based on pro careers Bill Bradley would be a first-team East Texas Longhorn star.” “ But at Texas, he only played there for a handful of games in the latter half of his senior year.
The link to Professor Carlson’s East Texas Longhorn All-Stars is below:
EAST TEXAS LONGHORN ALL-STARS (squarespace.com)
It may take a year to 18 months before Professor Carlsons’ Longhorn all-star heroes for the state of Texas are completed. Pending All-Star regions include:
1) Houston;
2) South and Southeast Texas, including Austin, San Antonio, the Valley, and Corpus; and the
3) DFW metroplex.
If you want to correspond with Professor Carlson about your Longhorn all-star list, he is at:
LC13@TXSTATE.EDU
The West Texas all-stars link is at:
The West Texas link is also associated with Professors’ links to the best Longhorn punters, tight ends, outsiders (non-Texans), and Horns from little towns.
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Women’s Golf- 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008
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2003 Lisa Ferrero, Perry Swenson, Sherry Lissiak, Marianna Balazar, Devon Andersen, Jessica Reese, Elizabeth Mundinger, Kristin Tavcar, Janice Olivencia
These Horns were winners of two tournaments, including the Big 12 Championship, and placed 6th at the NCAA Championship tournament.
Janice Olivencia finished 18th in 2001, 10th in 2002, 6th in 2003, and 22nd in 2004 at the NCAA National Championships. She finished her collegiate golf season ranked #6 nationally in 2004 and was the Big 12 player of the year in the 2001-2002 season.
Jessica Reese was medalist at the Betsy Rawls’ Invitational setting the record for the lowest 18-hole round (67).
The link to women’s golf under Coach Watkins and Richards is at :
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2004 – left to right- Arnett, Olivencia, Salazar, Swenson, Anderson, Prust, Best. Ferrero, Watkins
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2005 women’s golf Swenson, Coach Watkins, Ferrero, Salazar
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2008 was Texas’ first appearance in the national championship tournament since 2004. Photo left to right Julia Best, Kelley Louth, Ashley Rollins, Angela Akins .
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First Annual Eddie Reese/Pat Patterson Golf Classic- Thursday, Sep. 1st
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Shaun Jordan is set for a great day at the Longhorn Golf Club. Lunch and appetizers will be served at Noon and are included in your fee. We will use a fun scramble format beginning at 1 PM. The cost is $150.00 per individual or $500.00 per team of 4 golfers. Registration is open to anyone that appreciates Longhorn Swimming and diving! Sign up HERE! https://www.wetswim.org/banquet/
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“ I try not to break the (NCAA) rules but merely test their elasticity.”
Bill Veeck
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For decades preceding 1988, the collective cult of many SWC coaches and rich alumni tested the limits of the NCAA recruiting rules.
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It was not Abe’s or Coach Royal’s fault that they missed the unwritten but tacitly approved memo permitting liberal and lenient recruiting “techniques”.
Abe Lemons believed in the literal intent and interpretation of NCAA rules, so he reported OU for basketball recruiting violations and was shocked when fans and newspapers were upset at him for such a transgression.
Abe Lemons said “if one coach accuses another coach of cheating, everyone wants to know who the dirty rat was that turned him in.” “The ‘winkers’ control the flow of communication.”
Abe Lemon found out the hard way that reporting “rule violators” was justifiable grounds for aggrieved parties to stone, disparage, ostracize, and intimidate informers.
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Coach Black
Longhorn Basketball Coach Leon Black also missed the unwritten memo authorizing NCAA rule flexibility and received the same get-in jail card Coach Lemons’ received.
After reporting Texas A & M for a bribery infraction, Coach Black was accused of being a dirty rat. Coach Black was shocked at the number of threats he received.
He said, “I love coaching, but it’s all the things that go with coaching that have become very distasteful to me.” Coach Black responded to all the mean-spirited remarks by eventually resigning as head basketball coach.
Coach Black’s great story as a Longhorn brand builder is at :
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By the early 1980s the unofficial sanctioned winkers elasticity rule began to unravel and by 1985 it snapped. The NCAA was all over the SWC for recruiting violations. Aggie coach Slocum said “ It was so competitive within the state that some of those people got out of bounds. Once they started, well … “He’s doing it too!”
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Below are three links that share the “Death by suicide of the SWC” and a chronological montage of rules infractions leading up to the NIL. Many coaches think that 2021 was a Faustian moment for college sports. Time will tell.
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TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History and assisting qualifying Horns who need temporary financial assistance.
The TLSN website and newsletter are free, educational, historical, and insightful. Sharing Longhorn sports history through the eyes of those who created it.
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