Fred Akers Dies at 82

[J.B. TexasEx]

RIP, Coach Akers ?

 

[Bear19]

RIP

 

[Tax Saver]

So sorry to hear.  God bless his soul.

 

[Huskie1]

I met with Coach Akers when I decided to attend UT, as I was contemplating walking on. He spent almost an hour talking to me and my grandfather. Very gracious and straight forward about the process. I ended up going a different route (track) but I’ll never forget that conversation. Meant a lot to a 17 yr old kid.

RIP Coach 

 

[Hiwood]

RIP Fred Akers age 82, sure wasn't my first choice to follow DKR, but he was smart enough to change out of the Bone and get Earl a Heisman, hard to forgive him for blowing the NC, but he was a classy guy and put us in bowl games

 

[Huskie1]

That team was a fumbled punt from winning it all. I’ll never forget that.

 

[63_Texas_1]

One of my favorite quotes by a Texas coach was Fred Akers after beating OU: "Get out the wide-angle lenses, boys, I'm gettin' ready to smile."

 

[primal defense]

RIP Fred. I apologize for all the things I said about you after the Georgia game.

 

[primal defense]

Fred Akers, who won 86 games in 10 years as head coach of the Texas Longhorns, dies at 82




https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30472855/fred-akers-won-86-games-10-years-head-coach-texas-longhorns-dies-82

 

[tejasrulz]

That team was a fumbled punt from winning it all. I’ll never forget that.

I know a player from that team and they stated Akers told everyone to stay away from the punt. Man, that's a play I wish I could forget. 

 

[Hiwood]

RIP Fred. I apologize for all the things I said about you after the Georgia game.

could not have been any worse than the words I was using during the game. I remember when they announced that he got the HC position and even though I was just a few years past high school all I could think was did DKR have a say in this. How did we get the HC from Wyoming over Bill Campbell ? Gotta give he and his staff props because they had a great run of putting 1st round picks into the NFL

 

[J.B. TexasEx]