Rich Texas Donors Threaten to Pull Funding if Players Don t Sing School Song
On 3/1/21 at 7:41 PM EST
Rich donors and alumni of the University of Texas have threatened to stop feeding the cash cow otherwise known as the school s athletic department if the Longhorns quit playing the alma mater that is more than 100-years-old.
The threats aren t just about monetary donations to the school and various other benefactors. They re threatening to cancel season tickets, boycott games and shut off the money if the school doesn t play The Eyes of Texas at sporting events.
One football player tweeted that he and his teammates have been told they should look for jobs outside of the state of Texas if they don t stay to sing the song after their contests.
Wealthy alumni threatened to pull donations to the University of Texas at Austin because its president largely stayed silent in response to student boycotts of the university’s fight song. Students have called on the university to rewrite or replace “The Eyes of Texas” for months, The Texas Tribune reported. The song was first performed at a campus minstrel show in 1903 and is
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Wealthy UT-Austin alumni supporting Eyes of Texas threatened to pull donations, emails show
Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune
March 1, 2021
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The Texas Longhorns had just lost to rival Oklahoma for the third time in a row this time after a quadruple overtime.
The bruising loss was quickly overshadowed when then-Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger stood alone on the field for the playing of the university’s alma mater song The Eyes of Texas, a postgame tradition. The rest of the team, who typically stay to sing the song with fans at the end of games, had retreated from the field.
For many University of Texas at Austin students who had spent months protesting and petitioning the school to get rid of The Eyes of Texas, it was gutting to see the student leader seemingly taking a stand. (Ehlinger later said he was only lingering alone on the field to talk with coaches.) The song played to the tune of I’ve been working on the railroad was historically p
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