100 day countdown

21 days and counting. Come on kickoff!

 

It's his day. Load up the pictures!

#20 Earl Campbell

 

With apologies to Anthony King and Scooter Monzingo..........,

my Father’s Day gift from my eldest son (a Tech grad, but he understands).

 

Is it the angle of the picture or does he have size 18 feet?

 

They look to me like the # on his jersey.

 

Into the teens we go. Not much longer....

#19 Kerry Cash

 

19 days 'til kickoff! Justin Tucker:



Blaine Irby:

 

Donnie Wiggington, Spring Branch HS

6-2 record as a starter. Set school records for most touchdowns in a season, career lowest interception percentage (5 in 113 attempts), and most touchdowns in a season by a QB (all since broken).
IMO his shining accomplishment in a Longhorn uni was successfully snagging an errant snap on the only Texas PAT attempt of the day in Fayetteville December 1969, giving the ‘Horns a victory in the “Game of the Century”.

 

#18 Stanley Richard. The Sheriff.

 

Emmanuel Acho

 

18 days to go!

 

The 18 wheeler. That was fun when it worked.

 

#18 Bill Bradley rolling out with Chris Gilbert in front of him. Two Longhorn greats

One of the greatest all around athletes the State of Texas ever produced. Later became a phenomenal defensive coordinator. In fact, the three greatest single game defensive coaching accomplishments for me are:

1) Leon Fuller against OU in 1979 - 5 first downs but 2 on penalties

2) Rick Lantz against FSU - only coach I know to successfully change his entire defense for one game. Those kids were so well coached that on the last play the LBs & SS were yelling the offensive play when FSU lined up.

3) Bill Bradley's Baylor defense against OU. He had the Sooners so confused that they didn't know whether to **** or go blind. Stoops is still wondering where "all those damn linebackers came from".

 

^^^ great post Sabre!

Meant to add my own Bradley photos earlier today....

 

Operative phrase being “when it worked”.

 

#17 in the on deck circle....

 

Tommy Wade, Henderson

Saved our bacon on Thanksgiving, 1963.

 

#17 Willie Mack Garza

 

The clock has officially crossed into the next day...

 

Leon Fuller was mentioned. My favorite Horn teams were his defenses.

 

Lance Gunn wore 16 and was an AA safety for David and the guy who replaced him. He and Stanley Richard were fun to watch

 

My favorite Lance Gunn story was when Penders asked me to take a recruit to the Texas/Arkansas game at Erwin Center. We were seated on the aisle about a dozen rows from the court. Arkansas had that fat kid as their star. It was a close game, and at one point during a free throw, Gunn walked down to the court and offered "fat boy" some of his ice cream. Gunn could have wiped the floor up with him (Miller??), and thought there would be blood letting. Every vein in both their faces and necks were popping out. Was it Oliver Miller? Anyway he backed away from the baseline.

 

Late to the #16 posting party. Iconic James Street:

 

Slick

 

# 16 TE David Thomas - cannot leave this warrior off the postings today:

 

I have always thought that David was from my perspective as an old fart, the most clutch TE ever.

 

From 2003-05, Thomas cured me of my fear of 3rd & 8.