Known as bleachergate to you know…
With our current stadium today, TDECU Stadium, I certainly hope with the coming Power 5 status in the near future, that we can host a high profile team on campus again and not in the neutral sites of their choosing.
wouldn’t want to play them again if they are going to make crazy demands like that, never should have tried to put bleachers up. should have given them half the visitors side and been done with it. looked like they were trying to make that a ut home game with the whole band and cowboy looking dudes… they bring bevo too? lol
it was cool seeing applewhite in that game though, and dkr and BY both on the sidelines
I know this isn’t the point, but it’s really remarkable how little the SoH’s sound has changed since then. You could convince me that they just dubbed last weekend’s version of the Alma Mater over the recording, if not for the ending.
That was a good game for awhile. We were ahead 14-10 and kept it close before UT pulled away. It’s one reason I claim the winless team that year was better than their record.
Those temp bleachers tho. Omg. Such an embarrassment.
Yeah, this game…This was one of the Cougar memories, I rather not re-live. It did solidify one thing with me, I HATE burnt orange and everything associated with it.
I remember having to go to the campus for some event that week and when I saw those stands I thought “there is no way in hell you would get me to sit up on one of those.”
We’ve come a long way gentlemen…
If memory serves, the bleachers were Gladchuk’s debacle. He bailed on UH the week of the game. Chancellor Smith had to come behind him and review the bleachers. He wouldn’t OK them. Rightly so. And hence the embarrassment to UH. I cringe when I think of it. And by the time Smith did his review, it was too late to move the game.
That was so bad for UH… Still an awful memory. But, yes, we’ve come a long way…
The bleachers were fine. The same ones were used at the Salt Lake Olympics a few months months later. We put them up because UT wanted them and then they just complained about them until Dr. Smith had no choice but to condemn them. Typical UT trash and one more reason to hate them.
When are they going to sell that land in Houston?
The bleachers weren’t “fine”. Dr Smith wouldn’t give his employer a very public black eye to appease UT. That doesn’t make sense. If Smith wanted to appease UT, he would have taken the 1 million dollars they offered to move the game.
Not true. UT wanted to play at thr dome but uh wanted to play tough and ended up with bleacher gate.
Just because a company that set something similar up foe thr olympics doesn’t mean our tinkertoy stands were safe.
I wouldn’t have sat there.
We looked pathetic but imagine thr guillotine to our program if those bleachers had fallen as thousands of ut fans jumped celebrating their touchdowns
It was right after 9-11. The country didn’t need another tragedy.
Those things were situated on a freaking grass hill with two by fours as its base.
There is no way I would have sat in them.
I can’t speak about how good they were but mudsills are required for scaffolds. Mudsills are typically wood.
They made the right move. No way Jose. A disaster waiting to happen. Just think of the never ending uproar if hundreds of folks lost their life… or even one.
That day was our Brandywine, our Alamo, our Pearl Harbor. We lost so much that day-the game, media support and prestige. One of the lowest days in Cougar history is like those three examples marked not just the low we fell but the beginning of an irresistible rise of what became a historical and legendary power.
The temporary bleachers were one of Chet “the Jet” Gladchuk’s signature accomplishments while he was here, along with the desperation hire of Dana Dimel (after Pruitt backed out on him), the plywood “luxury boxes” in Hofheinz Pavilion, and the gimmicky hire of Clyde Drexler.
2001 was our program’s nadir. We’ve come a long way since then.
Unpopular opinion but we should’ve moved the game.
It was an embarrassment still brought up to this day. Putting feelings about Dodds aside, he was probably the most powerful man in TX college sports. Having him hold a grudge against us was not beneficial for our program.
I tend to agree with u about moving the game. That was my thought at the time.
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