Coming PR disaster

[Red Five]

THIS IS MAH HAPPY FACE

 

[accuratehorn]

I attended the Syracuse Cotton Bowl, and it was an ugly fight, and I heard later it involved racial slurs. So I am not proud of that incident. The movie will portray this, and it is probably justified.
As far as Darrell Royal recruiting blacks, he did become the first SWC coach to recruit a black player, and that player was Warren McVea. UT recruited him hard, and lost a close battle to Cougar High, and surprise, surprise, a probation followed when UH was found to have given a car to Warren McVea.
It was difficult for the school, and difficult for the player to become the first scholarship black athlete.
We are talking about a very short period of time where some schools integrated a few years earlier than others, and called those who did not find their pioneer black athlete quite as soon "racists." This is an ugly charge, and the fact is almost all the schools had their own first black students and athletes over the same short 10 or 15 year period of time.
There were undeniably those around UT's program who did not want to see integration begin, but in my opinion, DKR was not one of them, and he did recruit Warren McVea in, what was it, 1964? Then he recruited several other black athletes before finally beginning to get them to see UT as a viable option. Roosevelt Leaks and Earl Campbell really broke down the barriers remaining.

 

[Not Shinola]

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