Ok and sell the uniforms. I will proudly wear my burnt orange slacks to work. (you can't hardly find them)
I’m kind of glad the band is not playing, with their attitude. They are good for sure but they only play 4-5 songs anyways. Maybe we could cancel the band and hire different bands for each home game like AC/DC or Willie Might save money!!!
So I guess the good guys won, truth prevailed over lies, and the (formerly) snowflake band will play The Eyes of Texas again.
Not official yet. But read between the lines. With these sorts of findings, there's almost no way The Eyes won't be back, with the band, next year. They've taken away all the arrows in the detractors' quiver. The official report will be issued tomorrow. A University of Texas Report Will Find That ‘The Eyes of Texas’ Has “No Racist Intent” "School administrators have already said “The Eyes” is staying." ‘Eyes’ committee report will challenge public narrative For example, it’s widely believed that the phrase “The Eyes of Texas are upon you” is a spin on an old phrase coined by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee after he became a university president in the 1860s. “We cannot find evidence of that,” said Dr. Richard Reddick, the committee chairman and associate dean in the UT College of Education.
I would prefer the yellow rose of texas as the state song would also like to hear the band play Jalisco, which is the most stirring fight song around. I went to texas a & I for a year before transferring to UT and it is their fight song and is great. also, it is in spanish and given the demographic trends around our state we ought to take advantage of that heritage, which is kickazz in the extreme. Did I mention that the band's uniforms look like they were designed by the guy Dom DeLuise played in Blazing Saddles?
I'm done with the band, they've ruined it for me. I'm all in on music being pumped in now. Looking forward to the Rice band making fun of them...
The Rice band would kiss their *** up one cheek and down the other. Just replace the Band with a MP3 file, and use their seats for $5 Randal's Stampede Zone tickets.
"The report adds that similar phrases predated the Civil War, including uses from the book of Job (“For His eyes are on the ways of a man”), George Washington (“The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us”), and William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812 (“The eyes of our country are upon you”)." So in the end, "the eyes of ... are upon you" comes from something entirely different, and probably a popular saying to hype people up from decades or more before the Civil War even happened. Good job everyone. It took a dissertation by 20 academics but we hopefully can put this nonsense to rest.
The song's theme of "The Eyes of Texas are Upon You", was a good natured ribbing of the then UT President, who used to go around campus saying "Stand up straight, the Eyes of Texas are Upon You", or "Don't chew with your mouth open, the Eyes of Texas Are Upon You". Now the students would just call him a MF and post it on YouTube, but that's how far standards have fallen. Trying to make that racialist, by claiming that General Lee used to say "The Eyes of the South are Upon You", is a dumb-*** historian version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Not sure what you mean by "kiss their *** up one cheek and down the other"? Did you mean kick? Is that in reference to musically? Entertainment value?? I love the M.O.B.- but that is about as woke a group of musicians as you are going to find in the state of TX. And I have a pretty strong record on here of been plum fed up with the administration, directors and student band members over the subject last season to the point of wanting to kick them all to the curb. But I don't pretend for a minute to think that somehow equates into them not being a talented group.
I also think it's time to take a hard look at the band director. Scott Hanna who leads LHB isn't a Longhorn. He is a LSU Tiger. There has to be plenty of qualified directors who spent their time, blood, sweat and tears on the 40 acres. Get us a damn Longhorn leading our band!
Fair enough. I just looked and both a Masters and Doctorate from UT. I've met Dr Hanna and he is very cordial and personable. But man I didn't see the leadership I expected through this saga last year.
It was my understanding that both Hanna and the Chairman of the Music Dept (or whatever it's called) were under scrutiny for the handling of this, and could face suspension or "retirement". Perhaps I misunderstood what was said, but as LHABSOB stated, there are obviously a large number of former band members that could LEAD the band. There was an assistant director in the early 80s whom I talked to in Palo Alto. Can't remember his name, but as I recall he and I shared some thoughts about having Cunningham bring in another Michigan Cow College reject. Just as now, I knew nothing about the band other than when I wanted them to play LOUD. I stupidly expected that guy to be the director within 4-5 years.
That's right. I had forgotten he did his Masters (is that racist?) at UT. I was actually a student during his doctoral years. He is a very cordial and measured man but the response or lack thereof from both he and Jerry Junkin doesn't surprise me. The Music faculty is very pro-Minority and they have added some outstanding Black faculty members in the last few years but they cannot sway from the culture of wokeness they are a part of. At this point I'm not sure they can get out of the corner they have put themselves into without alienating a segment of their student body. Not for a few years that is. Thanks to this saga every time The Eyes is played by the band there will be some amount of egg on their faces.
Better than Jalisco or the other alternative, we could always use Deguello; but you can't really sing to it (as far as I know).
Well, it worked. I listened to that all the way through. I got so fired up that I tried to punch a hole in the drywall. I sure hope the local Urgent Care is still open. I don't have to turn in my Longhorn Card but I guess I have to forfeit my Man Card. Unless I get a grandfather exemption for old age.
Listened to Jalisco. Ranking it with "Texas Fight" and Michigan & ND fight songs for me is like mentioning "Dive Bar" scotch with Johnny Walker Blue in the same breath. To each their own.
