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One of my first great assignments was the 1974 Southwest Conference football press tour. It was the beginning of my senior year at the University of Texas, and it would be years before I realized how lucky I’d been that my student gig at The Daily Texan had gotten me a seat alongside the boys on the bus and let me rub elbows with giants of Texas sportswriting such as Dave Campbell, Dan Cook, and Denne Freeman, among others.At each stop, we were treated like royalty. Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Frank Broyles regaled us with tales of a lifetime in coaching over one seemingly endless night in Fayetteville. TCU hosted an evening with coaches and officials at the Fort Worth palace of Tex-Mex, Joe T.…

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