HottyToddy

It's not about you, I'm fine with being stereotyped as a racist/Klansman for attending Ole Miss considering that's what our in-state rivals constantly do even though we got rid of almost everything of that nature in our athletics and the statues etc etc. I was more concerned about the vitriol and namecalling towards eachother in a rather inconsequential negotiation that wont even affect all that much and that none of you are even involved in. I was upset about the hatred towards the players too. Also, that might not be the best example considering how hard the internet screams from the top of the hills that Irish Americans are not Irish and are separate entities and that we shouldn't claim Euro identity or whatever. I get what you're saying though I just didn't understand the example of the open hatred for blacks meaning just longhorn players. I apologize.

Ah, yes Karen this you're this blue hair that, reading through this thread was sickening/upsetting at first with how little people respect each other and jump for the proverbial kill as soon as they can. I hope this is just message board behavior and not how Texans/Longhorns treat each other. I also don't think that people would attend a gridiron football game if they "openly hated" blacks. But okay. I also feel that this was to be expected, considering the nature of negotiation. None of them even threatened to strike, and it wasn't only about the song.

I don't get what's so wrong about it. This seems like a nice compromise considering everything else and the committee being started about it. We kept the freaking rebels name doing similar things.

Aint he good if he calls his owns plays? I remember him being a very sought after P5 HC when he was in Houston

Why do y'all keep seeing your players are unpaid? Is under the table bagmen being accepted just an $EC thing?

Also, reading the thread, some of you taking are obvious joking hyperbole seriously on both sides of this discussion. Finding humor in current events is how a lot of people tolerate them, but it can be hard to tell through text.

I'm an Ole Miss alum. I wanted to chime on this. Like renaming the buildings, getting rid of statues etc. Most people didn't care about that stuff or even supported it because most people are apolitical/one issue people and generally, the big ask was a lot of the traditions and identity, though we did get rid of some stuff like Colonel Reb (who has too complicated a history to go into here) in the late 90s (and fully in the 2010s) before the fervor among young people for this sort of thing. Wanting to drop the rebels name was the big ask, which was compromised on and eventually redefined fully but the name and wordmark was kept. Other things like Dixie were slowly worked out. The problem was the new traditions that were attempted to be started were incredibly lame and artificial, like the black bear mascot. It's like the 'skins rebranding not being well received because the WFT is incredibly generic and lame. (Seriously, why not just do Washington FC if you were going to go that route?) The solution was tying something natural with winning football. That, and simply giving lesser known traditions greater prominence helps too, the student body loves this kind of stuff. Trust me, if you ever get a competent AD, it will be fine and other stuff will emerge and maybe even stuff you didn't even know happened will be very fun and cool for fans and students alike and the atmosphere may even be better than before. Texas is a blue blood with the money to do this, much more than my school, I promise to all of you worried about it. And it's not like Eyes will stop existing, you can still listen to the records of it and other stuff that could be phased out from the band, I still have a flag with Colonel Reb on it in my rec room because it is part of the history of my school that I love and nobody is denying that, but it's just not fit for public consumption anymore. Texas is a more liberal state and Austin is very liberal, so it will be fine, I promise again.