Darrell Royal
Darrell Royal
Darrell K Royalwas an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas at Austin, compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships, 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 July 1924
CityHollis, OK
CountryUnited States of America
People were concerned about Vince's throwing motion. He's completed enough passes that I don't hear that anymore. He's got a strong arm. He can throw the deep pass without too much stepping forward.
People want to talk about the national championship, but there's a whole season left to play, that's getting the cart before the horse. There's lots of things that have to fall into place for that to happen.
The good news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football. The bad news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football.
If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it.
I'm happy for Mack. No one can talk about him not winning a conference title anymore. And hopefully we'll be able to stop talking about how Texas hasn't won a national title since way back when.
Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.
We've had some good contests in the last year; at the Rose Bowl, and up there in Columbus, that's about as big as it gets.
You'd think it ought to be every other year that one team wins in this series. But that's not the way it's worked out. Not in my time. Not as a player, not as a coach.
There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.
It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.