Earl Campbell says Texas can only win with a black quarterback

[Ph q all]

Dang it sounds like Earls been oppressed all these years.
Another professional athlete with no chance... So sad.

[PAULYPOKER]

Texas needs to spend more $$$$$$$$$$ on recruiting if they want to win big......

Never gonna get there on the bubble of the top 25 spending list........

[Mr KLC]

Elmo Wright was exactly the type of recruit Darrell K. Royal needed in 1966. He had only started playing receiver at East Texas’s Sweeny High during his senior year, but he was a natural; he once scored five touchdowns in a game. He had the talent to play anywhere, but he knew what his top choice was. “I’d love to go to the University of Texas,” he told his coach. “I’d like to be the first Afro-American to play there.”

As Asher Price writes in his deeply researched and reported biography, Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact (UT Press), Royal invited Wright to visit Austin and spoke with him in his office. “You’re going to have to be like Jackie Robinson,” the legendary coach told him.

After the meeting, Royal called Wright’s high school coach. “He’s the real deal, grades and everything,” Royal said. “But, unfortunately, at this stage of the game we’re not ready to take that step.” Wright ended up at the University of Houston, where he was named an All-American receiver and, among other things, invented the end zone dance, and then went on to play five seasons in the NFL.

Earl Campbell, as an eleven-year-old living in Tyler when Royal dashed Wright’s dreams, was no stranger to racism either. If Campbell wanted to buy a hamburger at the local diner, he had to get his food to go, served out of the back door. On his way home, he and his brothers often ran, to avoid trouble with white neighbors.

Both the Longhorns football team and the Tyler school system were finally integrated in 1970, sixteen years after Brown v. Board of Education and a few years before Campbell got to join the team from which Wright had been barred. He was, in short, a target of some of the worst prejudice that America had to offer and a witness to the profound changes in race relations that occurred in the middle of the last century. Price, a longtime reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, makes the most of Campbell’s prominence at such a pivotal moment, using Campbell’s experiences to unravel the ugly history of integration in Texas—first in Tyler, then in Austin, and finally in Houston.

[jjgold]

Earl We all know is not to bright

[2daBank]

Why is it that anytime someone says... "nothing against Ehlinger", they normally are going to say something totally against Ehlinger. lol

Ehlinger is a good QB. He has a strong arm, physical and can run the rock when he has too. I think he may be more NFL ready than Trevor Lawrence.

Can’t believe everyone knocking him, I dunno if he a nfl qb, never said he was but he been excellent at Texas. Kid is freaking carrying this team who can’t stop a nose bleed on d!!

[Sam Odom]

Skoal Brother

[Booya711]

I’m just pissed there aren’t more white cornerbacks or any for that matter

Jason Sehorn was the last one I think

[BeatTheJerk]

As long as they keep the "white head coach" then the odds are on their side

[2daBank]

I’m just pissed there aren’t more white cornerbacks or any for that matter

Jason Sehorn was the last one I think

Those black corners are killing Texas this year! Maybe they should try some crackers! Lol

[G Anon Dropout]

Why would you not count Wilson?

Probably because Wilson is half white. Also, he won with a Seattle team that scored more points on defense than Denver did on offense.

[packerd_00]

Didnt he also say you cant win in the NFL without a black quarterback. Just sounds like a incoherent bigot to me.

[packerd_00]

Elmo Wright was exactly the type of recruit Darrell K. Royal needed in 1966. He had only started playing receiver at East Texas’s Sweeny High during his senior year, but he was a natural; he once scored five touchdowns in a game. He had the talent to play anywhere, but he knew what his top choice was. “I’d love to go to the University of Texas,” he told his coach. “I’d like to be the first Afro-American to play there.”

As Asher Price writes in his deeply researched and reported biography, Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact (UT Press), Royal invited Wright to visit Austin and spoke with him in his office. “You’re going to have to be like Jackie Robinson,” the legendary coach told him.

After the meeting, Royal called Wright’s high school coach. “He’s the real deal, grades and everything,” Royal said. “But, unfortunately, at this stage of the game we’re not ready to take that step.” Wright ended up at the University of Houston, where he was named an All-American receiver and, among other things, invented the end zone dance, and then went on to play five seasons in the NFL.

Earl Campbell, as an eleven-year-old living in Tyler when Royal dashed Wright’s dreams, was no stranger to racism either. If Campbell wanted to buy a hamburger at the local diner, he had to get his food to go, served out of the back door. On his way home, he and his brothers often ran, to avoid trouble with white neighbors.

Both the Longhorns football team and the Tyler school system were finally integrated in 1970, sixteen years after Brown v. Board of Education and a few years before Campbell got to join the team from which Wright had been barred. He was, in short, a target of some of the worst prejudice that America had to offer and a witness to the profound changes in race relations that occurred in the middle of the last century. Price, a longtime reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, makes the most of Campbell’s prominence at such a pivotal moment, using Campbell’s experiences to unravel the ugly history of integration in Texas—first in Tyler, then in Austin, and finally in Houston.

What does any of this stuff have to do with what he said though. It doesnt.

[dlowilly]

This pales in comparison to AOC's racial ramblings in front of congress.

[BeatTheJerk]

What does any of this stuff have to do with what he said though. It doesnt.

He's just showin' all of us his age basically. I would say solid memory & nice take on Campbell's back story, but that had to be a copy & paste job.

[packerd_00]

[B]He's just showin' all of us his age basically. I would say solid memory & nice take on Campbell's back story, but that had to be a copy & paste job.

Yeah fair point their,to much fluff in the piece.

[dlowilly]

You never heard of Earl Campbell...


Campbell took a lot of head shots. He's in bad physical shape, so I'll chalk this up to a bit of dementia. Or maybe he was taken out of context. You can't really trust everything you read. He also might have been pointing out that UT should get more diversity in QBs and perhaps head coaches. They ran Charlie Strong out of town and really haven't been worth a shit since VY. I've heard rumblings that Texas chancellors, boosters (the big ones) and folks with power are old school, lets have white faces in the program. Who the hell knows?

Hilarious all the excuses you have for blacks whether they are head coaches or criminals caught on tape.

He was run out of town? He was there for 3 years without a winning record. Did those raciss boosters make his teams suck? You think he would be gone if he went 7-5 or 8-4 his last year?

I really don't mind Earl saying something like this, I mean it's kind of hard to argue with the success of black QBs in college, but only if on the flip side it can be said teams need white coaches.

[BeatTheJerk]

Yeah fair point their,to much fluff in the piece.

[BigdaddyQH]

What is with you clowns in here trying to defend Charlie Strong? Is was TERRIBLE at Texas. He never defeated a Pac 12 team, including a 4 win Cal team in 2016. He lost all three of his games against TCU by a combined score of 129-26. Ne NEVER had a winning season. He was beat by a 6-6 Arkansas team 31-7 in hos ONLY bowl game. He was suppose to be the savior at USF, but lost his final 6 games last season after winning his first 7. He is 4-4 this season with wins against UConn and South Carolina State in that mix. The racist blacks are out in force in this thread.

[Mr KLC]

Yeah, if I put it in bold, it's a copy and paste.

[BeatTheJerk]

Yeah, if I put it in bold, it's a copy and paste.

Thanks for the clarification

[POOLSIDE]

the last black QB to win a super bowl was in 1989 unless you count Russel Wilson

never heard of Earl but he sounds like prejudice

Ah yes, the classic black qb matchup. John Elway vs Joe Montana.

[Grits n' Gravy]

Dumb statement on his part but the last time Texas won shit, Vince Young was the qb.

[PaperTrail07]

Reminds me of Rosen BUSTO

Why is it that anytime someone says... "nothing against Ehlinger", they normally are going to say something totally against Ehlinger. lol

Ehlinger is a good QB. He has a strong arm, physical and can run the rock when he has too. I think he may be more NFL ready than Trevor Lawrence.

[2daBank]

Ah yes, the classic black qb matchup. John Elway vs Joe Montana.

Lmfao, and wtf is the “if you count russ Wilson” shit? Did I miss the memo where we decided he was good enough to be white!! Lol

[Booya711]

Dumb statement on his part but the last time Texas won shit, Vince Young was the qb.

/thread

[Str8Mush4Life]

Earl We all know is not to bright

Judging by the grammar and spelling in this, and most of your sentences, neither are you.

[JIBBBY]

Dude was a horse and a beast, BIG LEGS ----- I remember #34 and that damn Houston Oilers song too..

[Mr KLC]

[Mr KLC]

[PAULYPOKER]

Donnie Shell............


My favorite DShell (AKA Torpedo) hit of ALL TIME........

He Fedexed so many devastating hits that it wasn't easy
for me to choose this as El Número Uno........

The fact Campbell had 40+ lbs. on Shell made it all the better.......

The Don Torpedo Shell shatters Early Campbell's ribs @2:45!............

These 2 clips show the play and the aftermath in the wake of Shell's millisecond sinister ploy of action on Campbell
,Lol.........

Best quality>>>https://twitter.com/ol_timefootball/...642112?lang=en

Not bad>>>>>>>

https://twitter.com/steelcitystar/status/1089981583052935169?lang=en

Can any of you all make a GIF outta this hit?


This was also Houston's 3rd turnover in the 1st quarter!........

[Itsamazing777]

so i guess he forgot about swoopes.... he was there just a few years ago. trash

[TheMoneyShot]

[BigDofBA]

Texas just sucks so....

[DiggityDaggityDo]

What kind of sausages are those?

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Oh I get it now.