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The Softness of Texas Longhorns Rises Again
OMAHA, Neb. – Oh, Texas. Why cannot you get a thicker pores and skin and cease making your self a goal?
The Longhorns beforehand assured an escalation of that foolish “Horns Down” hand gesture after they whined to the Huge 12 sufficient to truly get it banned. Now they’ve gotten a nationwide singer banned from the Faculty World Sequence.
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Zach Collier, a center college historical past instructor at Purple Oak Center Faculty within the Dallas-Fort Price space, was slated to carry out the ceremonial duties in Omaha, however a minor incident following the singing of the nationwide anthem on the Womens’ Faculty World Sequence semifinal sport between Texas and Oklahoma State obtained him instantly canceled.
In a video that we will not embody due to the unrelated cursing close to the top, Collier is seen ending the tune, then turning to a bunch of Cowboys’ followers and rapidly flashing the “Horns Down” gesture earlier than strolling away. In line with Collier, he acquired an e-mail letting him know he was disinvited to carry out on the Faculty World Sequence.
Being a Texas A&M Aggie, it was laborious for Collier to withstand throwing the Horns down. In any case, pointing two fingers on the floor within the SEC footprint is not going to lift even the tip of the slightest hair on an eyebrow, a lot much less a full eyebrow.
Nevertheless, it simply wasn’t the time and the place. The nationwide anthem singer is there to sing on behalf of each groups in a impartial web site setting such because the Girls’s Faculty World Sequence, and having the singer flip round and throw the “Horns Down” proper in entrance of the younger girls from Texas was a bit distasteful.
Had Collier waited till he was within the stands he would have been tremendous. He might have nonetheless sang the anthem on the Faculty World Sequence and climbed into the stands with Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M followers and thrown the “Horns Down” till his fingers fell off.
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That being mentioned, if Collier’s account of the NCAA referring to the “Horns Down” as an offensive gesture is true, the powers that be in Indianapolis must suck it up and inform everybody related to the Longhorns to develop a thicker pores and skin. It is not an offensive gesture.
It is genuinely child stuff. Followers are actually utilizing the Texas gesture for Longhorns and turning it the wrong way up to bodily sign “Down with the Longhorns.”
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Think about how embarrassing it could be to the Arkansas program if opposing followers began sporting hats with the Hog turned the wrong way up and the college tried to get it banned and switch it right into a penalty as a result of it did not imagine its gamers have been robust sufficient to deal with it.
Even when it have been taken it up a notch and the hog was skewered for roasting, which might be approach worse than something being carried out to Texas, it nonetheless would not be value a thought. At worst, it’d get a crooked grin in response.
Texas has to recover from this as a result of that weak, whiny perspective goes to get them laughed proper again to the Huge 12 in the event that they act like that within the SEC.
Having the “Horns Down” value a singer his gig goes to ensure that not solely will Texas see that gesture thrown down en masse, however it may be emphatic and fixed.
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And if that’s offensive, let’s hope they cannot learn as a result of a number of the shirts Arkansas followers will put on if the 2 groups go head-to-head goes to make their heads explode.
It will be a tough expertise in Omaha for the Longhorns. However, then once more, they introduced it on themselves.
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