Texas Longhorn Band Won't Participate At Baylor Game Due To ‘Eyes of Texas’ Controversy

Outkick ^ | October 22, 2020 | Clint Lamb

[C19fan]

The University of Texas will not have its band performing against Baylor on Saturday. The dispute over “The Eyes of Texas” song looms large for the Longhorns. And it has reached a point that members of the band are refusing to play.

According to Andrew Zhang with The Daily Texan, an internal survey was conducted to see if band members would be participating in the longstanding tradition. The results found that portion of the band would choose to skip the performance.

[C19fan]

From what I understand there are two items that have the Woke people all riled up:

1: Song was premiered at a minstrel show in 1903 2: The lyrics was based on Robert E Lee when he was president of then Washington University, now Washington and Lee, telling his students "the eyes of the South are upon you".

[HighSierra5]

This is another reason why I won’t watch ANY college or professional sports. I’ve got better things to do with my time. Like cleaning my guns.

[Cowboy Bob]

And it has reached a point that members of the band are refusing to play.

Then they should be kicked off the band and lose their scholarships.

[C19fan]

So do band members now get veto power over the playing of the National Anthem?

[Mr. K]

Toss them out of the band.

[bort]

These people are freaks

[CIB-173RDABN]

This all began in the 1960s when college students (who as a group are the most ignorant people on the planet) were able to force Colleges to bend a knee to whatever demand they make.

Fast forward to today and it is possible for a single individual to say something is offensive and everybody must bend their knees and change their way so as not to offend this individual.

The problem is there are competing individual so that when you bend your knee to one, you end up offending another.

The bottom line there is nothing you can do that will NOT offend someone sometimes.

Our first amendment has been re-written so you don’t have a right of free speech, you have a “right to not be offended”.

This only works when one side is willing to use violence and the other side isn’t. The day is coming when the other side will simply say enough is enough and began to fight back.

[gwjack]

It is an interesting dilemma that the Longhorns have. It is so discombobulating that the author of the story thinks that Texas beat OU a couple of weeks ago. They didn’t. OU won 53-48 in four overtimes.

I feel for Sam Ehlinger. Being one man standing against the peer pressure of his team and his school. The kid is a winner. He is the only QB from Texas to beat OU in the last four years; and at the same time, he is the only Texas QB to ever lose to four different OU QBs - Mayfield, Murray, Hurts, and Rattler.

This controversy reminds me of a Barry Switzer story about why OU got the recruiting advantage over Texas when Darrell Royal was the Horn’s Head Coach. In short (I can elaborate if asked) it was because of the perceived racism on campus in Austin.

I appreciate the stand that Ehlinger has, and is, making. He is his own man. I hope the best for him.

Gwjack

[Liz]

Sungto the tune of “I Been Workin’ On the Railroad”

The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn —
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn.

[littleharbour]

How soon before they turn the Alamo into a memorial to the Mexican patriots slaughtered by the racist Texans who unlawfully occupied Mexican territory? /s

[SES1066]

1: Song was premiered at a minstrel show in 1903 2: The lyrics was based on Robert E Lee when he was president of then Washington University, now Washington and Lee, telling his students "the eyes of the South are upon you".

Very sensitive snowflake antenna quivering at 20 feet! This is a penumbra of a second-hand shadow of someone who is ACTIVELY LOOKING for offense. An absolute travesty to this Texas Descendant!

[Agatsu77]

F-ing snowflakes. Just go home to mommie, life is just So unfair!

[jeffersondem]

I read this week that the next “improvement” being considered by the University of Florida for its big football stadium is to remove seating.

When noosecar began removing seating at tracks around the country it was not a good sign, we now know. Death is a lagging indicator.

[gwjack]

I don’t know, but I fear the time is closer every day. Ehlinger’s stand actually reminded me of the patriots at the Alamo. I chose not to refer to it as it differs slightly by being on a different playing field. Life, existence v. social acceptance. But there are many similarities. I’ve watched Ehlinger for four years put his team on his shoulders and will them to cross the goal line. As a fan of an opponent, I recognize that he is the type of player that opponents love to hate - but you would like him on your team.

Any opposition begins with one person being strong enough to say that that is far enough; not one more inch will I give. That is why I admire what he is doing. It has to be lonely on the team, but accepted by thousands across the country.

Gwjack

[YouGoTexasGirl]

I am agreeing with all the comments here!

SO, University of Texas fans should sing the song without the snowflakes playing it and have signs that they can just stay in their parent’s basement and play computer football games and half time!

I was a life long longhorn until a few years ago. Stopped watching anything UT. Would never say anymore a child should go to UT. I LOVED being on that campus but there is a cloud of darkness that needs breaking! I am also not quite an Aggie...yet!!!

[oldasrocks]

I’d do a lot of things rather than watch football. Cleaning the toilets, scooping out the chicken house would smell about the same but be more useful.

[Bookshelf]

Austin and the U. of Texas have become a cancer that will grow with time. The U. of California Bay Area was a lovely place to live..., and then there was the Free Speech Movement at the U. of Cal Berkeley in 1965. There followed the craven response by, first, administrators, and then politicians. The infection spread with geometric speed. The curse is being replicated today in Texas.

[ontap]

My granddaughter graduated from UT.....she certainly is no liberal. I don’t think the people of Texas will take this sitting down.

[Irenic]

Give that band their pink hats.

[Teacher317]

Over 100 years ago, there was a large organized group of folks who worked hard to enforce slavery, enforce Jim Crow, and mistreat black Americans personally for decades on end. They tried to keep blacks from voting, they tried to prevent blacks from getting an education, and they tried intimidating all those who opposed them. One would think that Woke Americans would want all references and memorials of that social club to be torn from public view.

Oh, wait. You thought I was talking about the KKK? No, I was referring to the Democrat Party. Strange how everything with bare connections to shows and foods and products have to be torn down, but the biggest force behind all of that abuse of black people continues to stand untarnished to this very day. Hmmm.