I pretty much but, in hardcopy, any grownup (and some kids) book about Longhorn football. I was going to ask if anyone could recommend the Unlang coffee table book, “Texas is Back”, but, who am I kidding? I’m going to buy it. Anyway- categories and recommendations:
Books by era:
Sarkisian: the Umlang book, and the book the AAS issued last year to recap the Big XII years.
Herman: unaware of any books
Strong: Mac Engel wrote a book covering one weekend of HS, college and pro football in DFW. That TCU prick fully expected OU to drill Texas that one Fall Saturday in 2015. Ha!
Brown: Probably the Brown/Little (mostly Little) “One Heartbeat”.
Mackovic: there is a coffee table book “Texas Longhorn Football Today”, heavy on pictures. That’s about it.
McWilliams: “Bleeding Orange” by Bohls/Maher.
Akers: “The Courtship of Marcus DuPree” by Willie Morris is the best we have. Short on real Longhorn info, heavy on literary quality.
Royal: a ton of books. The best two were ghostwritten by Blackie Sherrod- “Darrell Royal Talks Football” and “I Play to Win” (Freddie Steinmark). (I bought Dave Campbell’s copy of the former from his estate sale- the Sherrod quip by his signature is “This was a real ‘labor of loot’”.
Price: nada
Cherry: he wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post, called “Why I Quit Football” with more insight (and bitching) than most books.
Bible: “Championship Football” by DX Bible- a hard slog.