Orangebloods.com has learned that Texas athletics director Chris Del Conte and Texas head football coach Tom Herman met with the Texas football team on Wednesday night to discuss the ongoing Eyes of Texas situation.
While we're still working to confirm some of the finer details of the what was said and how it is being received by the players, we can report the following:
a. It was communicated to the players that the expectation moving forward will be that the players will stand during the playing of the school song.
b. The players will not be forced to participate while the song plays, but it was explained that paying respect to the Texas fans is paramount to everything else.
c. It's probably difficult to characterize how individual players have or will receive the mandate, but it appears that the meeting ended with some sort of agreement in place that they will follow the order to remain on the field and stand for the school song.
Is this the end of this ordeal?
It's probably too soon to know. However, for the first time, the president, AD and head coach sat in a room together with the football players and outlined the expectations they have for the team moving forward.
According to one person that was in the room, the news didn't exactly thrill all of the players, but we have not heard that any player will protest this new explained set of expectations.
We'll keep you updated.
(Note: The original report mentioned that Texas president Jay Hartzell was in the meeting, but additional sources have confirmed that he was not present. The story has been corrected.)
While we're still working to confirm some of the finer details of the what was said and how it is being received by the players, we can report the following:
a. It was communicated to the players that the expectation moving forward will be that the players will stand during the playing of the school song.
b. The players will not be forced to participate while the song plays, but it was explained that paying respect to the Texas fans is paramount to everything else.
c. It's probably difficult to characterize how individual players have or will receive the mandate, but it appears that the meeting ended with some sort of agreement in place that they will follow the order to remain on the field and stand for the school song.
Is this the end of this ordeal?
It's probably too soon to know. However, for the first time, the president, AD and head coach sat in a room together with the football players and outlined the expectations they have for the team moving forward.
According to one person that was in the room, the news didn't exactly thrill all of the players, but we have not heard that any player will protest this new explained set of expectations.
We'll keep you updated.
(Note: The original report mentioned that Texas president Jay Hartzell was in the meeting, but additional sources have confirmed that he was not present. The story has been corrected.)
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