re: Muschamp to Texas?

I am sure Texas and many others will come calling. He has done a great job this season keeping the team together with all the injuries we have had. Georgia gets all the press coverage, but we have been decimated also, and probably worse.

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You don't understand the difference between the schools then. Texas still has a race problem, they still have black people getting bleach balloons thrown at them there.

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This is BS. I've lived in NO, Gainesville and Birmingham, and Austin is the least racist place of all.

For you to claim that the problem is worse in Austin than in College Station is ridiculous.

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What do you know about Texas, do you live here? Do you hang out with old oil men?

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I know a lot about Texas. I have lived in Denton, Midland, College Station, Houston, and currently Austin.

I also know VERY well about old oil men, as I am in the oil industry. Plus thanks to family connections I know a few Texas and A&M big donors (like have suite-level season tickets) who have lots of oil money.

I am very close to this group, and deep down they are often very racist. Not the blatant "burn a cross on their lawn" Mississippi racist, but a "you will NEVER marry my daughter or run my company, and I will gerrymander like crazy to marginalize your voice" Texan brand of racist.

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This is BS. I've lived in NO, Gainesville and Birmingham, and Austin is the least racist place of all.

For you to claim that the problem is worse in Austin than in College Station is ridiculous.

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You are mixing things. Austin as a city is very open, very liberal, very accepting. But Austin does not equal the University of Texas.

Many students at Texas ARE very much like your typical Austinite, often times to the extreme where they act like Berkeley students. That is probably where your perception is based.

But many, especially in the frats, come from conservative Houston and Dallas suburbs. In the middle of the liberal utopia their own views often become more extremist to compensate, and from that comes terrible acts of racism.

Meanwhile A&M's culture is rooted deep in the military. The military was far ahead of the curve than society for integration, and the "one for all" feel of the military helps those in those culture have a high respect for their peers. Finally A&M is very close to Houston (the culturally urban large city in Texas) and Bryan.

If you don't believe me I will bust out my sources if you want.

EDIT: One last important point I forgot- when they graduate it is those rich frat boys that become the big boosters that run the football program, not the smelly hippy liberal arts grads without a dime to their name. Hence why Texas plays country songs at games instead of Bob Marley.

Haven't read through the thread, but I'd just like to pop in and say that Texas could do MUCH better than Muschamp.

If I were the UT AD, I'd start with Briles and Sumlim and go from there.

What the hell, I am bored and you won't believe me without sources. Plus I am tired of Texas-sympathizers stating this kind of crap on tRANT. So here we go:

To start with, their cherished song- the Eyes of Texas - has a racist origin:

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T.J. Finley, who graduated from UT with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology in the spring, stopped singing UT's iconic alma mater completely after being told that the song was first performed by students wearing blackface makeup in a turn-of-the-century minstrel show.

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Texas never lost touch with this racism, as even in the hippy 60's they responded violently to racial equality:

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Toni Luckett has devised the consummate plan to combat the UT administration's reluctance for change, "By any means necessary." Her job she said ultimately, "is to facilitate change on this campus." Probably the only Students' Association President ever to receive death threats, Luckett's 1960's idealism ignites a renewed sense of activism throughout the campus.

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"BUT BUT BUT, THAT IS ANCIENT HISTORY!!!" you will say. Too bad Texas stays in touch with that history in the modern age.

I could point to the constant defacing of their MLK statue:

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A statue of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the University of Texas campus in Austin was defaced for the second time in 19 months.

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Or the incredibly racist frats parties (again these are the people who run the football program):

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A UT Austin fraternity is planning to have a “Cholo/Ghetto Mexican” Rush Event where participants are to dress up and act as “Cholos” or “Ghetto Mexicans.”

This will be the second racist party hosted by a UT fraternity in a year!!! Last year, UT made national headlines when UT Law students hosted a “Ghetto Fabulous” party where participants were to dress in black-face. It is apparent that race relations are an issue on the UT Austin campus and that UT administration has failed to address the issue of tolerance and race relations.

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And I am talking REALLY racist parties, down to blackface:

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White students at the University of Texas at Austin in September also dressed up in Blackface, carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor, wore Afro wigs and huge necklaces and name tags with stereotypically Black and Hispanic names.

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The racism has even has tainted their team in recent times:

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According to NowPublic.com, when Buck Burnette, a back-up center for the University of Texas football team, realized that Barack Obama would win the 2008 election, he posted this update on his Facebook page:

“All the hunters gather up, we have a N$%&er in the White House.”

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As well as student body leaders:



She was the UT College Republicans President as recently as 2011!

And she perfectly represents the kind of oil-money attitudes that actually run the Texas athletic program.

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The evidence is very strong. What other school in the US has had bleach bombs thrown at black students this semester

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They weren't just thrown at black student. There are literally people launching water balloons at all sorts of people in west campus everyday and people fill them with bleach or or coolaid and all sorts of stupid stuff.

Havent seen anything blown out of proportion like this since Rick Perrys ranch

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I know you were BSing, but he seriously may have saved his job with that win.

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No BS. That win sits big with boosters and recruits . You know, the only two types of people that count in college football...

...well, maybe TV execs, too. Three types.

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Lest we forget the video of the Aggie dressed as a slave owner whipping a another student painted black with a 12th man towel

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The difference between the two is shown in your link:

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Current university president Robert Gates, recently named by President Bush as Donald Rumsfeld's replacement as Secretary of Defense, wrote "An Open Letter to the Aggie Family" on Nov. 7.

In it, he said that the video "is not simply an example of poor judgment and insensitivity" but that "it appears to have been purposefully produced to insult and demean."

Gates called the video "inexcusable," "moronic," and "offensive on many levels."

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Something really racist at A&M happens, and the president writes a open letter apologizing. Plus the students were later expelled.

Meanwhile Texas frats crank out racist parties year after year and and Bill Powers doesn't do a damn thing about it. Why? Because those racists' parents run Texas.

And those same parent/grandparents won't tolerate a Charlie Strong. MAYBE a Shaw (just because we did it and they don't want to fall behind), but Strong with his white wife? No way.