U of Texas' band goes on strike!

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Keepin' it weird y'all.
 
Well it is Austin....about the only city in Texas where guns would actually be handed in if demanded. Not all, but some.
 
Repeating myself a bit here but after the OU/Texas game we went out to dinner with 3 other couples and two couples are big UT fans. One of them is definitely a BMD in athletics and the other couple gives substantially to the academic side of UT. Point is, they both support Texas with their $$$ and not just their voices in the stands. They both made a big issue of the Eyes of Texas friction in Austin. They don't like it at all. And they said a lot of the donors are severely pissed off at the students, professors, etc. for letting it get to this point. Just because a melody was used infrequently in a few minstrel shows decades ago does not make the song a racist homage to whatever vestiges of slavery may or may not still exist in modern Texas. They're willing to "go to war over it". I'm not sure what is going to happen but this woke stuff is tearing things apart. I try to imagine if someone suddenly decided that Boomer Sooner was anti-somebody and a bunch of 19 year olds who didn't build the University but are benefiting from it suddenly wanted to throw away decades of tradition. I would be hot too.
 
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Kick them off the band....if they are there on a scholly, revoke it.

Simple solution really. They are in college to learn. How about we teach them they don't get to make the rules.
 
Bayou Tiger said:
Kick them off the band....if they are there on a scholly, revoke it.

Simple solution really. They are in college to learn. How about we teach them they don't get to make the rules.
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BoiseMike19 said:
Well it is Austin....about the only city in Texas where guns would actually be handed in if demanded. Not all, but some.
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Didn't they have some sort of gun protest a few years back involving dildos??
 
Says a lot about Texas as a program and school. The football team ( the financial bell cow) is a perennial underachiever and the “big” issue in Austin is a PC stance on a song that 3/4 Of the fan base doesn’t even know the words to.
 
CoalTrain said:
Says a lot about Texas as a program and school. The football team ( the financial bell cow) is a perennial underachiever and the “big” issue in Austin is a PC stance on a song that 3/4 Of the fan base doesn’t even know the words to.
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this one, right?

 
To be fair it’s kinda cruel to make their band watch that product on the field anyway.
 
The band needs at my high school were weird AF.
 
President already came out and said the song will be played after every sporting event. The players will observe the song Saturday, some may not flash the hookem or sing it but they will stand to acknowledge the song and the fans that have come to see them lose in a last possession game again.

I don't blame the band, they are trying to make change on something they don't have a complete grasp of.. they are 18-22 yr old young men and women.
 
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