While the personnel and players from the University of Texas football program carry themselves like they are one of the sports superior, the fans of the team seem to disagree.
Max Olson of The Athletic recently conducted a survey of 1,500 fans from Big 12 schools and asked about topics around the Big 12 landscape.
To say that Texas did not fare well is an understatement, as they often finished near or at the bottom for essentially every question unless the question was in a negative light. The response is somewhat warranted as the Longhorns were abysmal in Steve Sarkisian’s first year, going 5-7 while also having a historically long losing streak of six games.
While some questions were about coaches and who is the most underrated or the most overrated, the survey also included Texas and Oklahoma’s move to the SEC and the fans did not hold back. Here is Olson’s gist of what most of the participants said about the move:
There was quite a bit of profanity and venom in their responses. The words “betrayal” and “traitors” still get thrown around a lot. One fan wrote he’s still “flippin’ livid.” Another shared this ordeal “makes me vomit in my mouth.” But the most frequent response of all was this: “Good riddance.”
Let’s take a look at how Texas did when it came to a few other questions from the survey.