Bill Curry-The Huddle
A huddle is a metaphor for our culture. The message is timely.
1956 was not good year for 3 of the 4 of the major sports at Texas. Track won the SWC, but The football team was 1-9, the basketball team was 5-7, and the baseball team only one 5 games . The football team and the baseball teams had the worse records in the history of…
Texas Bowl record from 1943-2019 – 31 wins, 22 losses, and 1 tie. 2008 Fiesta Bowl Ohio State Buckeyes Won 24-212011 Holiday Bowl California Golden Bears Won 21-102012 Alamo Bowl Oregon State Beavers Won 31-272013 Alamo Bowl Oregon Ducks Lost 7-302014 Texas Bowl Arkansas Razorbacks Lost 7-312017 Texas Bowl Missouri Tigers Won 33-162018 Sugar Bowl…
Roy Miller 2005- 2009 ALL ROADS LEAD THROUGH MACK BROWN ALL ROADS LEAD THROUGH MACK BROWN As a boy living in Virginia, he loved the ACC, particularly Mack Browns and North Carolina’s Tar Heels. A decade later, destiny called, and Roy got his wish to play for Mack Brown as a Longhorn. However, the road…
From 1893- 1933 Texas football was consistently good, but by 1933 Texas football was ugly. Texas had its first losing season. In 1936 the Horns were bottom dwellers in the SWC. Texas needed a football guru to turn the program around from the Chevigny debacle and found one in former Aggie and Nebraska coach D.X….
Professor Larry Carlson and TLSN have chronicled a part of Longhorn sports history that will NEVER occur again. To my knowledge, there has never been a Super Bowl winner with 4 players from the same college who won a national championship and who then all started and won the Super Bowl. Horns Up! All four…
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…