Texas player says alumni threatened him and teammates if they didn't participate in 'The Eyes of Texas'
At Texas games, “The Eyes of Texas” song is the school spirit song, but it has come under fire recently.
Students are trying to get rid of the song, due to its racist origins, but let’s just say some boosters with deep pockets aren’t fans of that path.
Controversy has been surrounding the Texas program recently, with leaks showing some people making threats to cancel season tickets, end big donations or boycott games if the song isn’t played.
And, on Monday, Texas player Caden Sterns took to Twitter to say he and his teammates have been threatened by alumni that if they don’t stay on the field for the song, they’ll have to leave Texas to find jobs after their Longhorn careers are over:
My teammates and I got threatened by some alumni that we would have to find jobs outside of Texas if we didn’t participate. https://t.co/owWwHF50ri
— Caden Sterns (@CSterns_7) March 1, 2021
Sterns didn’t name names, but if he has evidence of those allegations, those Texas alumni could face some ramifications.
We’ll see what the school decides to do about the song, but it’s clear this is a highly charged issue.
I think “threatened” tends to imply violence.
“We won’t be providing you the cushy jobs you’re not qualified for that we otherwise would” isn’t really what I think of when I hear the word “threat”.
“We have the power to make sure you’ll never get a job making more than minimum wage.” Anything similar would be considered a threat. A threat doesnt always imply physical violence.
Except they don’t actually have that power – just standard delusions of grandeur from the UT booster crowd.
A threat doesn’t just mean physical violence that was an idiotic statement. If a texas millionaire said that to a broke college kid you can easily see where the intimidation comes from. Their boosters are cowards and it’s pathetic.
I’m curious as to what about this makes the boosters cowards.
LOL…no it doesn’t. You can threaten people plenty of ways without violence. Threat only means statement of intent to harm someone in a general sense.
Sure, it just becomes meaningless to the point a better word could be used in non-clickbait headlines.
Like, I could “threaten” to leave a mean comment about you – is that an actual threat
If Texans were as tough as they talk we wouldn’t need border control now would we?
I was not aware that long ago a minstrel show with blackface played this song at a county fair. Thank God we will never hear it played ever again in the light of day or else I don’t know what I’d do for fear of my life.
Get used to it – unlimited degrees of separation from a questionable act now puts you in the crosshairs of the recently woke.
As an Aggie, I’d still rather listen to this occasionally than “Boomer Sooner.” I swear they play that song every time someone breathes.