Video: Texas Longhorns in such disarray that the team must protect players
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Texas (1-4, 0-2) entered today’s game against Oklahoma under heavy criticism.
Much of that has been reserved for former Florida coordinator and Louisville coach Charlie Strong, especially after the team lost 50-7 to TCU last week.
The Longhorns and Sooners are playing in Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. A loss would put Texas in major trouble in terms of reaching a bowl game, as Kansas State, West Virginia and Baylor all remain on the schedule.
Normally, field entrances and exits are important sports moments because of the intimacy — fans are sometimes close enough to touch players.
As Texas took the field Saturday, a black tarp blocked fans from seeing the players, and presumably kept them from shouting obscenities or even endangering any of the Longhorns contingent.
Decide for yourself: is this a sad representation of the state of Texas football, or a reason to rub it in the faces of everyone wearing burnt orange?
Texas' entrance, complete with a protective black tarp. pic.twitter.com/6fdcZYdnK8
— David Ubben (@davidubben) October 10, 2015
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
