Texas has one of the best college baseball teams in the country from a historic standpoint. However, the Longhorns look absolutely ridiculous after a brutal loss on Sunday.
They put a hidden Easter egg in their cleats that completely backfired!
This year’s Texas team went 35-22 during the regular season and Big 12 Tournament. It earned a No. 3 seed in the College Station Regional and was paired with Texas A&M, Louisiana-Lafayette (or whatever they want to be called these days), and Grambling State.
The Longhorns actually won their first game of the weekend in pretty dominant fashion and took down the Ragin’ Cajuns 12-5 on Friday. The same cannot be said for their matchup with the Aggies or their rematch with the Louisianans.
A&M beat Texas 4-2 on Saturday. ULL beat Texas 10-2 on Sunday to end its season with help from an ice cold bat flip and Horns Down.
Meanwhile, the cleats on the Longhorns’ feat reflected a very different reality. They debuted new kicks back in February that self-proclaimed the school as the “University of Texas at Omaha.” It is a reference to the amount of times that they have played in the College World Series. Texas has reached the College World Series 38 times.
While the UT at Omaha nickname (which sounds like a regional campus) makes sense in terms of history, it makes for an embarrassing reality in the present. A school that put Omaha in its cleats did not make it to Omaha. The Longhorns jinxed themselves.
And to make matters worse, they lost the Regional at their biggest in-state rival.
To put ‘Texas at Omaha’ in writing anywhere on the uniform was an awful idea. That never should have been approved. Especially in a sport like baseball where superstition is real!