Given the size of the shadow cast by his legacy in Austin, it is hard to believe that Darrell Royal’s job at the University of Texas was ever in jeopardy.
But even after he had brought a first national championship home to the forty acres, he was not given a free pass on from the mammoth expectation that come with the head coaching job at Texas. A multi-season slump in the mid-1960s, punctuated by season-ending losses to TCU and Texas A&M in 1967, had landed him squarely in the doghouse of the orange and white faithful.
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