Texas Longhorns Poor Sports ?

[VarsityShop]

Is it true what I just heard?

The Texas Longhorns got spanked in the College World Series, so they refused to come out of the locker room after the game to accept the 2nd Place Trophy?

And the Horns refused to allow or speak to reporters after they got beat?

If this is true, it says alot about those spoiled Longhorns sportsmanship.

[Pony Fan]

I would say that it is very typical of them....arrogant beyond words.

[Arkpony]

The article says"Texas players refused to come out and collect the second-place triphy during post game awards...NCAA oficials went to theLonghorn dressing room twice to summon anybody wearing and burnt orange. Itswas the firs time in 17 years the losing team failed to collect the runner-up trophy. "We don't have to have the trophy to know we're champions" Texas coach Augie Garrido said.

What a bunch of losers they are!

[Mustangs35SMU]

I would say that it is very typical of them....arrogant beyond words.

Amen to that

[Lotus]

First of all, the players should be ashamed, and their parents should be ashamed that not one player had the class to step forward and represent what really is a good university with any dignity. There are hundreds of other schools that would love to have a team make the College World Series, and this act of poor sportsmanship smacks of spoiled-athlete syndrome.

AD DeLoss Dodds should fire coach Augie Garrido for (a) not going out to accept the trophy and (b) not kicking the tail of any pouting player who didn't follow suit. He won't, of course, because Garrido wins games and recruits great players. But he should be canned.

The sports information staff down here should issue an edict that coaches aren't allowed to speak to the media without running their ideas past the media relations staff. His comment about "we don't need the trophy to know we're champions" is beyond stupid. It's arrogant and moronic and sets a horrible example for the players, many of whom might actually be good guys.

And UT fans wonder why the rest of the world views them as a bunch of spoiled, cocky half-wits who somehow have acquired an undeserved superiority complex.

Thank god I'm not a UT fan -- I'd be ashamed.

[MrMustang1965]

The only Longhorns that I like are the ones that have been defeated...in any sport! Good riddance! Any UT fan should be ashamed of themselves right now. God, what I'd give for SMU to have a baseball team again that could accept a SECOND place in the CWS!

BTW, where on the Internet is this story? I can't find a reference to it.

[Eddie P]

It's been getting good airtime on local sports stations and on foxsports as of last night. I am dissapointed by how they acted, but even more by how there is not a hint of apology from anybody the day after. Kevin Sherrington wrote a great story about it today in the DMN. I will let that story speak for itself. I'm happy that the UT-carzed DMN had the fortitude to speak up about this subject. They even have a poll running on the DMN website.

Lastly, I will say that I am rather proud about how the vast majority of UT alums have responded with criticism and anger towards this embarassment. There aren't too many ways to spin this and I'm glad it being almost universally condemned.

[Casey]

Good point, Eddie P - any UT fan who blasts their school for this should be commended. I generally think UT fans are the pompous, arrogant bunch described in this thread of posts, because, well, they usually are. But if there are some orangeheads out there who are as offended by their baseball team's behavior as we are, they should be congratulated for having class that exceeds that of most UT types.

Incidentally, Coach Garrido apparently is insisting that he thought it was optional to go get the trophy (even though as Cal-Fullerton's coach in the mid-1990s, he accepted the runner-up trophy without pulling this act). He also says nobody came to the UT locker room to get the Horns out to get their trophy. I guess we'll never really know what happened, since we weren't there. But this is a case in which he needs to be the bigger man and admit he screwed up, and apologize. Beyond that, there's nothing he or his team can do to save face, and until he does that, this incident will only underscore the image of arrogance that oozes out of every corner of that school.

[DR'95]

Garrido's been to the CWS enough times to know.

That's like telling a cop that I didn't realize I was supposed to stop on Red.

Every team's shown up for 25 years, including the loser's to Augie's 4 titles. He knew.

[SMULLET]

What does Augie Garrido mean when he says, "We don't have to have the trophy to know we're champions". Were there some controversial calls which could have affected the outcome of the game? Or is he just being an idiot?

[giacfsp]

I assume he was trying to suggest that his guys (who were, after all, ranked No. 1 in the country), were of championship-caliber. But the comment was ill-advised, to say the least. Sounds like a boxer who's been knocked out and insists he's still the better boxer -- no, you're not. And the Horns are not champions. They had a great team and a great season, but they lost. Grow up and accept it .... Coach.

[NCAAFtball Fan]

Were there some controversial calls which could have affected the outcome of the game

There were some controversial calls on fair/foul balls. But he needs to get over that because baseball is a game of human error. In my opinion he was just being an idiot by not getting over it.

[Corso]

Agreed - EVERY game has controversial calls. That's part of the game. To blame the officials or the weather or the field, etc., is pretty bush-league. There always are calls that affect the game, but if his team played the way they should have, a call here or there on a foul ball wouldn't have mattered. UT was loaded this year, but the better team in this series won it. Coach Garrido belittled the accomplishments of his former school and his former assistant with his infantile behavior.

[Sam I Am]

The good thing about social pressure is that the UT coach had to apologize for the team's "no class" bad showing at the CWS awards presentation. What is ugly is the spiteful envy that wannabes show in trying to bring down those who've achieved when we haven't. The enmity toward UT comes from their domination of most other teams in most sports. I'm sure that SMU will have plenty of attitude when and if we return to prominence.

[Greenwich Pony]

I don't think anyone on the board has a problem with a little swagger and arrogance, especially when you can back it up. And nobody likes to lose. What makes this vile is the complete lack of class shown by the Texas program, which is a program who can easily afford to show some style. Texas wouldn't have had a problem accepting a trophy if they had won.