# RIP Darrell K Royal **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217 "2012-11-07T14:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snupzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Snupzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snupzilla)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/21 "2012-11-09T02:22:27Z")
> [@bump](#): > > My suspicions are that the Austin media is so UT-friendly, that they don’t go digging dirt. > > It just seems very, very suspicious that most of the decent SWC teams of the 1980s and 1990s seem to have been caught up in some kind of recruiting scandal at some point, and so have most other perennially good programs in the past 30 years, with the exception of UT, who seems to be squeaky clean, despite being in a state as prone to athletic crookery as Texas is. What does the home media’s love of their local team have anything to do with sanctions? You think they don’t love TAMU in College Station, Oklahoma in Norman/OKC, OSU in Columbus, Alabama in Tuscaloosa? Texas had all the cards stacked in its favor in the 80’s, yet still sucked. Don’t you think if they were cheating they’d have done a better job? ---
**Author:** ![Snupzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Snupzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snupzilla)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/22 "2012-11-09T02:26:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Funny? Good- explain where I’m wrong and crack up everybody else. > > Do you deny that Texas had an all-white football team as late as 1969? > > Do you deny that Barry Switzer scooped up most of Texas’ best black players for years afterward? > > Do you deny that Texas had a losing record when Royal resigned? 1. True 2. False. Many does not equal most. 3. Absolutely false. 5-5-1 is not losing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/23 "2012-11-09T04:26:45Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/24 "2012-11-09T14:22:27Z")
> [@Snupzilla](#): > > What does the home media’s love of their local team have anything to do with sanctions? You think they don’t love TAMU in College Station, Oklahoma in Norman/OKC, OSU in Columbus, Alabama in Tuscaloosa? > > Texas had all the cards stacked in its favor in the 80’s, yet still sucked. Don’t you think if they were cheating they’d have done a better job? I just don’t buy it for a minute, that’s all. I don’t have any proof, but it’s hard to swallow that UT could be as big, powerful and rich as they are in the world of college football, and that they’re squeaky clean. This is about as close as I come to being a conspiracy theorist in anything, but I just have this gut feeling that UT’s football program and boosters, etc.. is way more corrupt and has more crooked political influence than anyone really imagines, except for other schools that dominate their states (i.e. Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, etc…). ---
**Author:** ![LonghornDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LonghornDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonghornDave)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/25 "2012-11-09T17:13:00Z")
Mack Brown plans to run the first offensive play in Saturday’s game from the wishbone formation. Also, I thought I would share some of my favorite Royal quotes, many which have been misattributed to others over the years. [QUOTE=DKR] Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] We’re like the girl at the school party, we’re gonna dance with who brung us. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] Breaks balance out. The sun don’t shine on the same ol’ dog’s rear end every day. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] Old ugly is better than ole nuthin [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates the weak ones. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] He’s not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can’t sing. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] I had hoped God would be neutral. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DKR] Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Snupzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Snupzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snupzilla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/26 "2012-11-10T03:33:54Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I just don’t buy it for a minute, that’s all. I don’t have any proof, but it’s hard to swallow that UT could be as big, powerful and rich as they are in the world of college football, and that they’re squeaky clean. You’re right. There is no way that the Horns could reach such stunning levels of mediocrity now and in the eighties with just their incredibly large alumni base, being the state flagship school in the second most populous state, and being the highest profile school in the middle of perhaps the most fertile area for high school football recruiting. They must be cheating. It’s amazing that despite being probably one of the most hated college teams in American, that no one has ever been able to hang a major scandal on them. ---
**Author:** ![Jdio1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jdio1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jdio1970)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/27 "2012-11-10T22:58:58Z")
My parents told me Royal stated a “n…” would never wear a Longhorn uniform, guess statements like those were a sign of the times…and then capitalism took over ! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217/28 "2012-11-12T20:34:27Z")
Just to get this back on a RIP track, one of the athletes who knew Coach Royal best, Earl Campbell, reserved any public comments until after he had spoken with his widow. Of Royal himself, Campbell said that his coach was who taught him how to be a man. Whatever faults he may have had, many that knew Darryll Royal best, no matter their race, had a great deal of respect for the man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-darrell-k-royal/640217.md?page=1)