They stopped playing after 3 quartets.
Heisman was the GT coach
We were in the front row in the corner right about where Earl crunched Bevo. Earl did move him sideways. That steer wasnât happy.
But it was heavily drugged !!!
Honestly, why would you or others be at the game with how uta tried to torpedo us for so many decades prior to our SWC inclusion?
I will never understand how could a UH grad watch a uta or atm game.
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- It was our game. LOL
- Iâve been to college games all over the country, yes even at UT and A&M, mostly Nebraska games when my son was a Husker staffer.
- 55 years as a ticket holder. 58 years since my first in person UH game.
- You live your life, Iâll live mine and Iâll try my best not to judge you.
Fair enough?
EDIT>> I just realized youâre the guy I had on ignore. Back you go.
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My apologies since it was our game. You are 100% correct. This is what you do.
I was at that game my Sr year in HS.
Study your history. It was our second year of being in the SWC.
Fact is, Rice & Jess Neely fought to keep us out. Next was Frank Broyles & Arkansas. It was Darryl Royal who got Broyles to change his stance
That game was memorable to me because I saw it when I was on R&R leave from my first Afghanistan tour.
You read my last post? The only reason why we got into the SWC is because we made headways playing against SEC teams and beat them regularly. While the internet was not invented then and some claim we did not get an official sec invite many in the sec country wanted to invite us. My Yeoman was close to Royal and Royal did all he could to get us in. What followed is fully described on what uta was toward UH. Get us on probation with their ncaa buddies to keep us down and stop us right in our tracks. These are facts.
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To be clear, the reason that âsome claimâ we didnât get an SEC invite is because we didnât get an SEC invite. Itâs pretty well-established that they sniffed around and eventually said no.
Commishbob is talking about Houstonâs game with Texas in 1977. That game was in Rice stadium. Our first ever home game against Texas! All our fans were thereâŠWhy would they not be? Whorn and Aggie were our biggest rivals and we loved beating them. And Rice was the school that torpedoed us for so many years in SWCâŠThey would have torpedoed us again in the 70s but Darrell Royal demanded they take another vote and talked to every other SWC school rep other than Rice, and got them to vote for Houston. and we got in, at last. Rice hated us like poison and worked for decades to keep us out of SWC and SEC when ever we tried to get inâŠ
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Itâs a fact that while we looked into SEC-membership many times, we NEVER actually received an invite.
We tried and failed more than once.
Always remember the three biggest realignment lies of Coogfans.com:
a) we were âvettedâ by the B1G,
b) we are ânegotiatingâ to join the PAC,
c) we âalmost joinedâ the SEC in whatever time period.
In 1976 we played UT in Austin. Earl was injured and didnât play & we smoked them. Rice stadium was my first time to see Earl in person. He didnât disappoint. Steve Bradham was the only one who seemed to take him head on all day.
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I think it is the biggest âhomeâ crowd weâve ever had although maybe the Aggie game the year before was the biggest. Iâll have to pull out a media guide.
The OK game in NRG was a huge crowd, too but I donât think it was officially a home game.
Reported attendance was higher for the Texas game by about 2,000.
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Yea ,Bradham and Earl.had some epic match up in that game Bradham meeting Earl in the holeâŠman you could hear the pads popping. Still hearing those pads poppingâŠThat was helluva a game . Got to see it allâŠlive .
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Believe what you want to believe. You are the same poster that told us that baylor was why we did not get invited in the BIG12 when it was created.
But you wrote nothing when Coog51 posted a retired BIG12 A.D. piece explaining how the SWC imploded due to uta and how uta dictated who was going to get an invite into the newly BIG12.
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No, I said CORRECTLY that we didnât get in the Big 12 in 1996 because Bob Bullock stumped for his alma maters (Tech and Baylor) to get in instead of for UH.
Those are historical FACTS Bro.
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Texas-politicians-led-by-Bob-Bullock-helped-7490182.php
Quote: After Arkansas bolted from the Southwest Conference for the Southeast, athletic directors from the Southwest Conference and the Big 8 began discussions about their own superconference. The talks centered on Texas and Texas A&M joining the Big 8, leaving TCU, Houston, Rice, Baylor, Texas Tech and SMU to fend for themselves in a much weakened Southwest Conference.
The athletic directors overlooked a few critical factors. Bob Bullock (law degree) and Gov. Richards were Baylor grads. Bullock and Sen. John Montford, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, were Texas Tech grads, as was House Speaker Laney and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rob Junell.
Bullock, invigorated by the triumph and praise of the previous legislative session, summoned Bill Cunningham of UT and Herb Richardson of A&M to his office early in 1994, when the conference shuffle â converting the Big 8 to the Big 10 â was on the verge of being a done deal. Glaring at the two men he said, âYouâre taking Tech and Baylor or youâre not taking anything. Iâll cut your money off and you can join privately if you want, but you wonât get another nickel of state money.â
The university representatives apparently believed the subject was open for discussion, that they had a negotiating position. When they expressed hesitation, Bullock cut them off. âIf you want to try me, go ahead,â he said. âGovernor, we understand,â Cunningham said. [1] At that moment, for all practical purposes, the Big 8 became the Big 12.
Entire books have been written about that.
Had Bullock done his job and stumped for our PUBLIC universities (Tech and UH), weâd have been in back then.
Instead he stumped for that dang private CHURCH SCHOOL alma mater of his OVER us.
At that time, the networks only wanted UT and aTm. He forced his alma mater Baylor in and left us out to die.
Now, back on topic.
Those are three realignment LIES that have been told here.
We were NEVER âvettedâ by the B1G. The B1G doesnât even sniff, much less âvetâ non-AAU schools like UH. That was an unfounded lie posted here by people before you even started posting here.
We never seriously negotiated joining the PAC; that requires a vote from the Board that was never held.
And we never âalmost joinedâ the SEC, given that the SEC never voted to approve adding us and never sent us an invite.
Those are the FACTS!!!
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This is a little off topic but a buddy of mine played defense for Rice in the 1970s, and he had a good game at home playing against Texas. Based on that game, he got an NFL tryout. He didnât make it in the NFL, but he loved the attention for a few months.