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
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.
There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.
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.
Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.
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.
It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.
Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.
Thank goodness we've progressed to where it's no longer a factor that Vince Young is black. It used to be a big thing.
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.
I think Oklahoma feels a little more passionate about the game, ... They're a smaller state, with only the Red River separating us from them.
I thought it was a great pep talk. I wanted to hug him.