Texas fans are analyzing hotel curtains to figure out if Urban Meyer will be team's next coach
If someone ever asks you to explain college football, the following anecdote should be a pretty good way to explain the absolute lunacy that this sport inspires in its fans.
Texas Longhorns fans are of the belief that their team’s next coach could be Urban Meyer. It’s just rumors at this point, speculation. Texas is theoretically a big job, Meyer is a big name that’s available. It makes sense that they would be linked.
Yet now Longhorns fans are determined to prove that this hiring is happening, and will not wait for any announcement from anyone to confirm it. They’re going full Sherlock Holmes on this thing — and are now, on message boards, inspecting hotel curtains that were in the background of a Meyer TV appearance to see if he’s possibly in Austin, Texas.
The amateur sleuths have matched the curtains to photos from the website of Horseshoe Resort, a hotel and spa outside Austin.
When another commenter noted that there appeared to be a ceiling fan above Meyer’s head, and very few hotels have ceiling fans, the enterprising detectives dug up more photos of the suites at the Horseshoe Resort to find that they did indeed have ceiling fans.
I host an investigative true crime podcast (shameless plug — subscribe to The Sneak!) and I can only dream of having the commitment and investigative skills necessary to link a man to a job using only curtains and a ceiling fan.
How did they even know to look at that hotel? What is even happening?