Couldn’t be they were recruiting for black illiterate athletes from the ‘hood, could it? Nah...
Rumors are that it was a pay to play scam.
The University of Texas, Austin, ex president Bill Powers died on Sunday. He’s the bozo who threatened the state legislature if they didn’t get UT out of the Top Ten Percent Ruling, he’d have to shut down Longhorn football. Ooooh! The horrors! TX can’t live without Longhorn football!!!!! Gotta get those minorities and foreign students, don’cha know, whether they play sports or not. $$$$$$$$$$. He lied. It didn’t have anything to do with football but with money.
The Top Ten Percent Ruling (Texas House Bill 588) was created after a law suit was brought against the state due to UT’s discriminating against admitting white law students (Hopwood v Texas). The ruling states that any student who graduated in the top 10% of his/her Texas high school class would have automatic acceptance to any state university. Well, even though this came about because of UT’s shady practices, the law applied to all state universities. But, UT wanted out so it threatened Longhorn football. Yes, silly, but the legislature blinked and dropped UT down to having to accept the top 8% while the rest of Texas still had to accept the full punishment of 10%.