Comments shouted from the stands at and directed at Black players for the visiting Longhorns were condemned by Alabama officials.
Angie Wisner, the mother of Texas freshman running back Tre Wisner, who added in her post, “The fact my son down there and they saying go back to the projects really just saddens my heart.” The episode added a troubling layer to an exhilarating win for Texas and its fans.
Ranked 11th but coming off just one 10-win season in the past 13 years, the Longhorns went to Tuscaloosa and took it to Coach Nick Saban’s third-ranked and long-dominant program.“The mystique of Alabama [means they’re] beat before the ball gets kicked off,” Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian, a former assistant to Saban,Monday of his experience seeing opponents play at Alabama’s stadium. “I had to make sure our players understood that we’re good enough to come in here and win. The moment doubt creeps in, that’s when you can start making the mistakes that get you beat.” “This is something that we embrace, something that we’ve got to take in and keep us moving,” Longhorns running back Jonathon Brooks said of the win. “Use it to catapult us moving forward.”
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