We always signed a few great players every year and Whitley was an All American, but Canalito and Bergeron were quickly gone and never contributed ANYTHING towards our championship team in 76. Don Bass, and Val Belcher and Alois Blackwell were highly recruited starters on our offense…BUT OT Ramon Rosales from San Angelo, OG Mike Spradlin from Dallas, C Chuck Brown from Missouri City, G Kevin Rollwage from Dallas, QB Danny Davis from Dallas, FBs John Housman from Killeen and Dyral Thomas from Lockhart, and Robert Lavergne from Lake Charles, ALL could be considered sleepers that coach Yeoman found and developed into championship caliber players…8 out of 11? Doesnt look like a myth to me. and thats just the offense…Now its quite true we had a great recruiting class in 77 that took advantage of that SWC championship…Lots of big recruits in the class signed in 77…
Canalito and Bergeron were quickly gone and never contributed ANYTHING towards our championship team in 76.
I’m just talking about how we did in recruiting highly-rated players, not how they actually turned out on the field.
OT Ramon Rosales from San Angelo, OG Mike Spradlin from Dallas, C Chuck Brown from Missouri City, G Kevin Rollwage from Dallas, QB Danny Davis from Dallas, FBs John Housman from Killeen and Dyral Thomas from Lockhart, and Robert Lavergne from Lake Charles
Robert Lavergne was one of the top players in Louisiana. I can’t recall where all the others were ranked, but whatever the case, I don’t deny that some were sleepers coming out of high school. That doesn’t negate the fact that we signed great classes under Yeoman. Before '73 is before my time ('73 really is, but I’m aware of the class we signed that year), but from '73 through '84, we signed a lot of classes that were at or near the top of the SWC and somewhere in the top 25 or so nationally, including top 10 classes in '73 and '77.
You’re both right and arguing past each other.
Earl Campbell was coming here till Texas paid.
I have a pdf file with an article from the Chronicle that tells all about it. I will email it to anyone who knows how to print a pdf file on here. Just send me your email address and I will send it to you.
Please post it. Some on here have an agenda portraying madcowsu located in Austin as being a U of H friend and had nothing to do with our repeated probations. Not only is it needed but hopefully it will quiet these same posters. Thank you.
The actual point is we will not return to Top 25 status until our recruiting improves, and stays improved.
We have early signs that Fritz can accomplish this.
Wonderful!
UT never care a whit about UH until we tied them in football in 1968 20-20. Previously, UH was about as big to UT as a grain of sand on the beach. UH then got UT’s full attention when UH joined the SWC in football in 1976. When UH started winning football championships that T-Sip felt belonged to them, the full UT assault machine when into action to keep UH down.
Texas isn’t interested in UH. For the most part, UT fans couldn’t care less about UH. Things were different decades ago but not today.
Oh yeah?
Then SELL THE LAND!!!
That’s because we haven’t played them in anything recently.
It just takes a couple of nice wins and better seasons before they start really caring about us.
I emailed a copy to stexguy and he will see what he can do. I don’t know how to post a pdf file.
That great ‘73 bunch got us off to a great start in the SWC!
Poppy C*ck
Until we begin to garner more national attention than they do!
Why would you say that?
At the time the Dallas Morning News was a de facto propaganda arm of the TU
Texas fans know who we are and they hate us. In the 1980s it was UT who kept us on probation. The head of the NCAA was a Texas Prof and the head of the enforcement committee was a UT law Prof.
Sigh. The 80s were forty years ago. We’re not on UT’s radar today. I don’t get the fixation with Texas. Their fans don’t have one for us,
If UT would have been UH’s champion to join the B12 in 2016, I believe it would have happened, and UH would be enjoying 100% B12 shares in 2023. Not to mention playing UT and Oklahoma for a few years.