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
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.
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.
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.
There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.
I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.
I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
I had hoped God would be neutral.