100 Day Countdown - 2023

Rick Burleson, Fort Worth Richland
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Shown trying to recover a fumble (eventually picked up by Ray Clay) on a bad day in Lubbock in October of 1976.
 
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Horn6721 said:
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Sounds like there may be an NIL deal in my future! :thumbup:

That find of Lee Lyles was way out there. I had seen him as #59 on a Best Longhorn by Jersey Number list and did a search. I was not familiar with him at all.

Hideo deserves more kudos with his pic of Rick Burleson.
#59 is definitely a tough find.

I agree with Desperado. One of the young line studs ought to claim the number and start a new Texas Tradition.
 
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SabreHorn said:
Definitely the "poop" was for the worst player to wear #60 in the last 60+ years. I unloaded on David for letting him wear it unless he was wearing #60 at a different school.
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David was a great person and former player but should have never been our head coach.
I credit the knee jerk reaction firing of Akers to a long series of mistakes by our administration that led to 2 more disastrous choices of next head coaches, with McWilliams and Machovic. We would have been much better keeping Fred until Mack Brown could have taken over.
Just my observation of those lost years and unnecessary losses.
 
bishophorn said:
David was a great person and former player but should have never been our head coach.
I credit the knee jerk reaction firing of Akers to a long series of mistakes by our administration that led to 2 more disastrous choices of next head coaches, with McWilliams and Machovic. We would have been much better keeping Fred until Mack Brown could have taken over.
Just my observation of those lost years and unnecessary losses.
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I never cared for Freddie & was glad to see him go. David seemed like a good hire at the time. The best thing about the McWilliams hire was that it REALLY pissed of the tcehies. The conspiracy rumors about how UT existed soley to screw tceh over rolled around for yrs. It was pretty humerous living there at the time listening to the morons rail at UT over "the Conspiracy."
At the time, I liked the Mackovic hire...but in my defense, I really didn't realize what a prick human being he was/is. The good thing about Mackovic...he recruited Ricky to the 40.
 
1sahorn said:
I never cared for Freddie & was glad to see him go. David seemed like a good hire at the time. The best thing about the McWilliams hire was that it REALLY pissed of the tcehies. The conspiracy rumors about how UT existed soley to screw tceh over rolled around for yrs. It was pretty humerous living there at the time listening to the morons rail at UT over "the Conspiracy."
At the time, I liked the Mackovic hire...but in my defense, I really didn't realize what a prick human being he was/is. The good thing about Mackovic...he recruited Ricky to the 40.
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Agree with you on him getting Ricky. And he had impressive games with JB beating Nebraska and throttling bailer one year. And I am not so sure if John had a huge part in recruiting Ricky or Shon Mitchell. Boy they made a huge running combo in their years along with JB at the helm.
But that Route 66 game by UCLA was totally unnecessary. I still have nightmares about that one.
 
SA,

David is a friend, but was totally unprepared for the job. He did two unforgivable things:

1) He used scholarships for kids of his friends rather than real players.

2) That may be the worst coaching staff in the history of football in the State of Texas. I went so far as to offer $10,000 to any major program that would hire any of those "coaches". Examples include a guy that ask many of us to finance or cosign a car loan for his girlfriend, so his wife didn't find out. Another was a coach that bet on college football games including ours.

Fred was a great coach even though DKR prevented him from hiring some top assistants that wanted to come to Austin. The stories about negative recruiting are legend. Imagine sitting in the den with a blue chip LB when a wealthy alum calls and tells the family not to choose Texas because they don't know who the coach will be. The way Fred was treated after the firing was beyond ridiculous, yet he never bad mouthed the school or administration. In fact, I don't remember him saying anything bad about DKR. He was a class act.

As for Ricky, he was recruited by Bernstein, who couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag, but got Ricky & Stan Thomas to come from California. There was a "Committee of 300", but Cunningham ignored what former players who played for Mackovic in KC had to say. Of the "300", I'm not sure there was one vote to support hiring Mackovic.
 
SabreHorn said:
SA,

David is a friend, but was totally unprepared for the job. He did two unforgivable things:

1) He used scholarships for kids of his friends rather than real players.

2) That may be the worst coaching staff in the history of football in the State of Texas. I went so far as to offer $10,000 to any major program that would hire any of those "coaches". Examples include a guy that ask many of us to finance or cosign a car loan for his girlfriend, so his wife didn't find out. Another was a coach that bet on college football games including ours.

Fred was a great coach even though DKR prevented him from hiring some top assistants that wanted to come to Austin. The stories about negative recruiting are legend. Imagine sitting in the den with a blue chip LB when a wealthy alum calls and tells the family not to choose Texas because they don't know who the coach will be. The way Fred was treated after the firing was beyond ridiculous, yet he never bad mouthed the school or administration. In fact, I don't remember him saying anything bad about DKR. He was a class act.

As for Ricky, he was recruited by Bernstein, who couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag, but got Ricky & Stan Thomas to come from California. There was a "Committee of 300", but Cunningham ignored what former players who played for Mackovic in KC had to say. Of the "300", I'm not sure there was one vote to support hiring Mackovic.
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SH, you know the inner workings of the Athletic Dept much better than I do ("I know NOTHING" in the best Schultz accent).
David took Tceh from s#¡+ to shinola in 1 season (including a win against UT). He looked like a legit HC. Turns out looks can be deceiving.
Freddie may have been a friend of yours & a fun person to be around, but I was embarrased by the behavior of his players. I lived in Lubbuttock when he brought a gang to town. Back then folks still deplaned on the tarmac & walked to the terminal. The tceh spirit squad, the Saddle Tramps, traditionally rolled out a red carpet between plane & tarmac for opposing teams. Upon arrival, Freddie's group walked around the carpet & spat Skoal/Copenhagen juice on the carpet. They followed that up with an embarasing game fully of late, blindside, cheap shot hits against the home boys, then layed down & quit in the 4th quarter, resulting in a humiliating loss that I had shoved in my face for years by the Lubbuttockites. Vertually every Freddie coached game I watched was repleat with cheap shot bad sportsmanship that cougar high would have been proud of. For that, I am no fan of Freddie. He did not get fired because of his record. Just my guess, but I think he rubbed too many people (like me) the wrong way. I don't wish him ill, I'm just glad he's no longer our HC. Next time you see Freddie, pls tell him I said "Hi".
 
SA,

I am hoping not to see Fred anytime real soon, since he died 2 1/2 years ago.

I saw every game that Fred was HC and won't be able to agree with you about the "cheap shots". I do not remember a single cheap shot in his ten years while we endured many (see also Kenneth Sims, Mark McBath, Jon Aune). If such had been the case, I'd have been on Fred like white on rice. (Ask Mack Brown about my heated, hyphenated voice message before kickoff of his first game in Memorial Stadium).

As for your friends in Lubbock, just ask them if they have ever found a cure for their starters desire for sex with the motel maids before kickoff. It also irritates the hell out of the older ones when you remind them that their "super star" Donnie Anderson gained a total of 21 yards in three games against Texas. (FWIW, he is older than I, but grew up down the street from me. Really a nice guy.)
 
1sahorn said:
SH, you know the inner workings of the Athletic Dept much better than I do ("I know NOTHING" in the best Schultz accent).
David took Tceh from s#¡+ to shinola in 1 season (including a win against UT). He looked like a legit HC. Turns out looks can be deceiving.
Freddie may have been a friend of yours & a fun person to be around, but I was embarrased by the behavior of his players. I lived in Lubbuttock when he brought a gang to town. Back then folks still deplaned on the tarmac & walked to the terminal. The tceh spirit squad, the Saddle Tramps, traditionally rolled out a red carpet between plane & tarmac for opposing teams. Upon arrival, Freddie's group walked around the carpet & spat Skoal/Copenhagen juice on the carpet. They followed that up with an embarasing game fully of late, blindside, cheap shot hits against the home boys, then layed down & quit in the 4th quarter, resulting in a humiliating loss that I had shoved in my face for years by the Lubbuttockites. Vertually every Freddie coached game I watched was repleat with cheap shot bad sportsmanship that cougar high would have been proud of. For that, I am no fan of Freddie. He did not get fired because of his record. Just my guess, but I think he rubbed too many people (like me) the wrong way. I don't wish him ill, I'm just glad he's no longer our HC. Next time you see Freddie, pls tell him I said "Hi".
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As Sabre mentioned, Fred passed away on 7-Dec-2020. I was just a kid when I first met Fred, he was very approachable and all class.
How many coaches today would give a 10 year old kid the time of day?
Fred did and I always remembered his kindness that day.
R.I.P. Coach.
 
bishophorn said:
As Sabre mentioned, Fred passed away on 7-Dec-2020. I was just a kid when I first met Fred, he was very approachable and all class.
How many coaches today would give a 10 year old kid the time of day?
Fred did and I always remembered his kindness that day.
R.I.P. Coach.
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My apologies. Did not intend to disparage or to derail thread.
 
bishophorn said:
As Sabre mentioned, Fred passed away on 7-Dec-2020. I was just a kid when I first met Fred, he was very approachable and all class.
How many coaches today would give a 10 year old kid the time of day?
Fred did and I always remembered his kindness that day.
R.I.P. Coach.
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I shook hands and briefly spoke to Coach Akers at a Texas-Ex event in Dallas in 1980. A friend snapped a photo I still have.

Coach Akers was not only a genuine gentleman to everyone that evening but he was gracious and spoke to me like I was important... even tho I was a nobody to him.

Reminded me what DKR said about the character of a man... I will always remember that about Coach Akers.
 
Sabre
You will probably know this but I have a vague memory maybe late 80s of Coach Akers for some reason being on a radio show out of I think Shreveport but which I was able to listen to.
He came across as gracious, sincere knowledgeable and whenever Texas was brought up nothing but complimentary. Do you know why he would have been on a radio show?

That is when I thought maybe I should rethink my opinion of him which I admit was colored by all the crap when he was fired.
 
Boone Powell, Duncanville
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Watching Darren Lewis score on T+2 in 1990. He was a couple of steps slower as Lewis scored during a late Aggie rally.
Fortunately Mark Berry had those steps at the end of the game to preserve a 28-27 victory and a Cotton Bowl berth vs. Miami.
A tense but happy conclusion to a great and memorable regular season.

We did not, however, fare so well the following New Year’s Day.
 
#55 Stonie Clark

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A stone cold stop v. the boomers...



If #40 Robert Reed doesn't turn this play back to the inside, Stonie doesn't make the play. Great job by Reed too.
 
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Desperado said:
If #40 Robert Reed doesn't turn this play back to the inside, Stonie doesn't make the play. Great job by Reed too.
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Absolutely the key to that stop. Reed stayed in his lane and forced the runner to turn it inside where Clark was able to make the stop. If Allen gets outside (by Reed overcommitting), he probably scores. Great job by Reed to make the stop possible.
 
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