You have your years mixed up Nealy redshirted in 2001 and Kelly Robertson was the QB. This was the 0-11 season.
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I went by the campus to see the bleachers as well. On one side those wooden shims were used to level the bleachers on sloping dirt. It looked bad.
Still, the majority of voices in the predecessor of this board were defending it. I remember getting the “you’re no engineer!” response when I stated my observation.
It’s good to see hindsight is clearing people’s vision. We are so blinded sometimes by always feeling slighted by tu…even though we often are.
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Definitely does NOT look safe. Good call to not have hundreds of fans up there
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I would sit up there in a new york second. Then again, I used to fly Aero Litoral from Houston to Chihuahua City. Everything after that was safe.
I once looked in the cockpit and saw the 20-something co-pilot adjusting something with his foot.
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Yup. I flew Aero Naves a number of times. AKA Aero Nervous…
Didn’t know you could bank a 727 at a 90 degree angle…who knew ?
The bleachers were fine. Its a truss system. It acts as a whole piece, thusly its super strong. You non engineers got brainwashed by UT.
They use the same system to build high rises.
The Chancellor of the UH system thought differently. That’s good enough for me.
But, sure, he was blinded by UT too… Of course he was. He made sure UH was embarrassed on national tv because that’s what UT wanted.
Some of you people need a UT enema to flush out all that conspiracy BS…
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How do you get out of your house? Too scared because everything fails.
Don’t drive, cars fail, don’t fly, planes fail, don’t eat out, you could die from food poisoning.
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He was, it was a political move to get us to move the game to Reliant.
Since you ask I’ll assume it’s a legitimate question instead of a failed attempt at sarcasm.
I walk out of my house and do a continual, subconscious, risk assessment until I get back home. I believe everyone else does the same so it shouldn’t be a new concept for you.
I’m a pilot. In and of itself it’s a riskier hobby than most, but I don’t enter it blindly and assess the risk and abort if I don’t feel it’s safe.
Same with all other tasks and I’ll apply it to this thread by saying that something can be constructed by professionals and still fail. Chances are nothing would have happened at the bleacher gate game, but the fans were justified to not want to sit there.
It didn’t pass the eye test
Does that answer your question ?
I’m terrified leaving my house. I’m always concerned I might have accidentally cheated someone out of some money.
Hey Norb- Would you have felt safe with your family on that thing along with several thousand others? Serious question.
I get the truss thing (even as a non engineer) but the structures in your pics are bolstered by the steel and concrete building itself.
I’ve looked and I’ve not been able to find a free standing truss as large or meant to hold as many people as what we attempted with bleachergate. At the time I heard that it was safe and that NASCAR used it but I’ve not been able to find any proof of that.
Good question. Don’t know, but I’ve sat at car races in big temporary bleachers and they were pretty solid. Looks like wood is the standard footing they use. Even on sloped surfaces.
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We were up 14-10 at 1min left in 2nd quarter. We did ok the first half!
Never knew about the SMU v. A&M temporary bleacher collapse in 1940
https://x.com/txfblife/status/1801707267341095004
Aggie engineers!
Right up there with Reveille taking a dump at mid- court.
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Looks like that was in Dallas
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