OUInsider - Owen Field

Agree with you. Arrogance. Their colors. Their imagined "innocence" on the recruiting trail. Their disbelief that a player could choose to come to Oklahoma over Texas, their anger over players who have done so.

"Arrogance" pretty much captures the core if it.

But, we're Texas...

I just get tired of the old inbred, trailer trash, toothless, meth crap. We don't do that to them even though there are about a gazillion inbred, toothless, trailer trash Texans out there. Heck there are parts of west Texas where people couldn't help but be inbred. I think Loving County, Tx has like 68 people in it. And a bunch of counties in Texas have less than 5 people per square mile. Who exactly are these people breeding with.

As far as the "win with Texas players" claim. They usually follow that up with "OU would be just like New Mexico State without Texas players.

I usually respond: You're exactly right. If OU had to play with native Oklahoma players like (First picks in the NFL draft) Leroy Selmon and Sam Bradford, or (Heisman trophy winners) Billy Vessells, Steve Owens, Jason White and (3 time All Americans) like Buddy Burris and Rod Shoate........................they would for sure be just like New Mexico State.

The longhorn logo, I mean really couldn't do better than a freakin cow? At least our Chic-fil-a cows entertain...Bevo just stands there!

I accidentally "hid" the part about how they thought most of our team was from Texas back then. They always threw in the "cheating" charge with that. As in, "those kids wouldn't have left the state for OU except they got cash and cars...."

I also probably didn't emphasize HYPOCRITICAL enough, either. For one thing, they always acted like every kid they didn't get was "bought off" to spurn them. And not long before that, a Texas-Ex who played for DKR penned a book called "Meat On The Hoof," which talked a lot about Saint Darryl and some of the behind-the-scenes stuff (I never read it all, but it was pretty telling). Yet all you ever heard about was how unethical OU was back then - and of course the Bevos were the saints of the college football world.

And of course, it's always been hypocritical for their idiotic fan base to say that OU had to buy the Blacks from Texas from the early-to-mid-70's to get them to come north. But, this is the same bunch of bigots who bragged about being one of the last "all-White" national title teams. OU had a Black captain (Glenn King in '71) before the Horns had a Black standout (Roosevelt Leaks). And they had their first Black letterman 14 years after Prentice Gautt emerged on the OU varsity.

I was barely two years old when the game was played (the 1960 Cotton Bowl - UT vs. Syracuse), so I don't know what really happened. But the movie that was made about the late Syracuse RB Ernie Davis, the first Black winner of the Heisman, sure didn't make the Horn fan base look very good. In the movie, even the players were dirty and racist.

Don't forget all the charges since the early 70's of how all of our players are a bunch of outlaws. Yet, when they get guys busted, including the likes of Sergio Kindle, Brock Edwards, Cedrick Benson, among others, it's like they were "good kids who were falsely accused" every time. It doesn't hurt that their many media-cheerleaders help with the cover-ups.

It's no big surprise that the schools like Texas, who like to bill themselves as being morally superior and all that, really aren't when a little bit of truth is shined on their glass house.

Darn if I can think of anything I like about them shorthorns so I guess I have to say I just hate everything shorthorn.

Here is what kills me about their idiot fan base that buys all that crap.

They say Bud Wilkinson "bought" all these players from Texas. In reality, those teams were 85% Oklahoma players with a handful of west Texans and north Texans.

They say OU "bought" all these players in the late 60s and 70s. Fact of the matter is that they did get the #1 players out of Texas for two years in Jack Mildren and Joe Wylie. It is an insult to these two guys charactor to insinuate that they were "bought." Furthermore, Glenn King, Greg Pruitt, Lionell Day and that group of black players were not even recruited much by SWC schools and not at all by Texas.

Former OU teammate of Darrell Royal and later OU regent Charles Sarratt once told me that in 1970 after Texas drilled OU in the Cotton Bowl, Royal met with some of his former teammates at the Baker Hotel. He had a few pops in him and he told them, "If OU keeps coming down here and getting all these "blacks", then OU will keep getting what they are getting. Of course, Royal didn't say "blacks."

The early 1970s teams once again were made up mostly of Oklahoma players with black Texans that Texas didn't recruit. By 1972, Royal was after Joe Washington. Washington's father had coached at segregated schools for 25 years by that time and indicated that until his own son was in high school that the University of Texas had never even sent a recruiting letter to any of his players.

By the time 1975 rolled around, OU had achieved a favorable impression from the black population in Texas, and Royal had been branded as somewhat of a racist. The book NM talked about "Meat on the Hoof" described Royal as a win at all costs coach who didn't possess any empathy for his players. Switzer on the other hand was considered young and "hip" to use a 1970s word.

I was roommates for a summer with Houston product Barry Dittman who said that Royal was kind of considered an old curmudgeon by a lot of Texas athletes. Dittman's best friend was DE Gregg Sellmeyer. Sellmeyer once said that when he went to visit Texas he had just read "Meat on the Hoof" and on his visit "nobody ever mentioned that it wasn't true."

As the years went by the racist stigma around the Texas program had gone away due to the success of Earl Campbell and Ray Claiborne and Leaks although Texas still had more white athletes than most programs clear into the late 80s.

I despise Texas for denegrating our state, our people and our school. I just laugh at the cheating charges and the "you only win with Texas players". As people have said, there greatest success was under an OU All American. You would think that as much braggin' as they do about their "great state" that they could find at least one guy who could coach the football team.

It is ironic that the University of Texas has only ONE coach in their entire athletic program that is a native Texan. That guy is the track coach and his name is "Bubba".
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