Texas will require fans to wear a mask or face covering at all times when inside the stadium and will move exclusively to a mobile ticketing format for the 2020 season. The University says it is adding more than 3,000 hand sanitizer dispensers within the stadium and will be removing all moveable food, condiment and merchandise kiosks.
Whittier, who passed away in 2018 from Alzheimer’s disease, joined Texas’ varsity football team in 1970 and was a standout offensive guard for two seasons before moving to tight end his senior year. As Texas’ first Black football player, he was a role model to Black players who joined the team in later years, his sister said.
With the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announcing the implementation of a conference-only schedule and several conferences canceling fall sports entirely, a canceled or postponed college football season is becoming more likely. Here are three Texas football players with the most to lose in the event of a canceled season:
Texas Athletics plans to give all season ticket holders an opportunity to retain their tickets under the 50% capacity limit, Del Conte said in an email to current season ticket holders.
Texas posted just one 10-win season in the last decade, unlike juggernauts Alabama, Clemson and rival Oklahoma. Still, the Longhorns, valued at a nation-high $1.1 billion in 2018, are among college football’s top earners.
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Texas, Longhorn superfans likely won’t get the UT football experience this year that they’ve relished in the past.
Sam Acho has never thought of himself as just a football player. As the sports world remains paused amid the coronavirus crisis, Acho knows that life without football is just a glimpse of the future.
Last week, Texas football players and coaches marched from Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to the Texas Capitol in honor of George Floyd and other Black victims of police brutality.
