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Texas sent out a tweet meant to praise the Longhorn student section. Instead, it embarrassed it. It’s not a good look that it took Alabama coming to town for this to happen.
Our Texas Longhorns students are amazing! For the first time ever, DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium has reached capacity in the student sections and the overflow standing room only sections. Unfortunately, we cannot let any more students in at this time.
— Texas Fan First (@TexasFanFirst) September 10, 2022
People Immediately Mocked Texas For The Tweet
Of course, the irony is how in the world is a school the size and the football prestige of the Longhorns experiencing a sellout in the student section for the first time? I went to Penn State. Our student tickets sell out in 20 minutes. Same for most other big-time programs.
Apparently not at Texas.
@purpleperry420 on twitter points out just how sad it is.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>First time??? Arent yall a football school 😂😂</p>— purpleperry420 (@purpleperry420) <a href=”https://twitter.com/purpleperry420/status/1568635978868465664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https:wp_posts” charset=”utf-8″></script>
@btillery2, an Oklahoma fan, took his shot at the Longhorns.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>You finally did it! A school with 40,000 undergraduate students filled the student section to capacity!</p>— btillery (@btillery2) <a href=”https://twitter.com/btillery2/status/1568627778274365446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https:wp_posts” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Also, @Its_Me_AU_Creed pointed out how different it is in SEC country.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”qme” dir=”ltr”> <a href=”https://t.co/GF7sQO70iq”>pic.twitter.com/GF7sQO70iq</a></p>— Creed Jordan (@Its_Me_AU_Creed) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Its_Me_AU_Creed/status/1568629731351822336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https:wp_posts” charset=”utf-8″></script>
But, matter the final score of the Alabama-Texas game, this will make people change their perceptions on Texas students.