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They did get a probation but proving my point from a shadow of a doubt how corrupt the ncaa is uta while comiting the same violations that we did got a slap on the wrist while we almost got the death penalty.
We often talk about attendance. Almost everyone fails to mention that we got these probations at the exact same time that we were building momentum.
Anybody and I mean anybody that has a clue about marketing knows how hugely it can be damaging to a brand, a product in this case our place on the National stage.
What we are building right now is just the beginning of a new era. Next season and the next I have no doubt will launch to the top. I expect 2027 to be a UH game changer.
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92010Coogs
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Great stuff Ryan. For the ones that have attended these games please bring your memories, unusual facts, fun stuff to this section.
For the ones that don’t know squat about history realize through reading our history that we were a regular sec teams beater. This was even before we join the SWC.
Indeed our potential is enormous.
Concerning attendance, it is worth noting that our game against ut at their place in 1978 was the largest attended football game college or pro at the time …… therefore and furthermore that largest attendance for a football game AND a basketball game in the state of Texas had one thing in common…
When Cactus Prior, UT’s PA Announcer at Memorial Stadium, announced it was the largest football crowd ever in the State of Texas, a number of UH fans, myself included, held our chest out a little bigger, and had a little more pep in our step.
UH, the red headed (scarlet red, of course) step child of the SWC, had set a football attendance record in Austin, and could not be viewed as a second class program any longer.
Dr. Glover, who taught me how to program microcontrollers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was in the last all male, all white class accepted into Rice.
Today, in 1976, Houston beat SMU 29-6 in the school’s first-ever game in the Cotton Bowl. The Mad Dog defense caused 6 SMU turnovers, including 5 INTs. UH fans hung a sign reading “We’ll be back Jan. 1” in anticipation of winning the SWC and going to the Cotton Bowl.
In the winning locker room, Coach Bill Yeoman had the tough task of telling split end Art Briles that his parents and an aunt had died that day in a car accident.
“We’re so close. Anything that hurts one of us, hurts us all,” Wilson Whitley said.
I think that was the game Yeoman put tear-away jerseys on our defensive tackles because SMU held so much. There were a lot of torn red jerseys on the field, but few holding calls. SWC refs sucked in those early years.
