If you are that close to the field you ain’t seeing much anyway.
Trust me, been there.
How dare these college students not put themselves at risk of heat stroke for my personal entertainment!
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Query: did Rice have something comparable on their sidelines?
If the answer is no, then all I have to say is this: not having them didn’t “toughen” Rice up enough to match our tent sheltered UH boys in terms of toughness.
Just sayin’!
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There must have been a rule change that now allows this. Expect we will see it more and more. Just like when they changed the rule to allow the medical tent. Now EVERYONE has one of those pop up medical tents.
Maybe that shade made them weaklings, following Coog43’s logic.
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I, on the other hand, thought it was a great idea.
Rice side was in the shade the whole time while we were in direct sun for most of the first half.
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Uh, Rice’s sideline is IN the shade !
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As I said, maybe that shade weakened them, following the logic of some on this string.
Hey listen folks.
Having shaded tents is NOT embarrassing in ANY sense, nor does it make our players soft, suggest that they aren’t conditioned against the weather, etc.
It’s simply a SAFETY precaution…one that I would hope that we’d take, given that, in the end, it’s just a game. It ain’t worth risking a heat injury over.
This complaint is silly.
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I hate sitting low close to the field because you can’t see the plays develop like you can sitting higher. However, that’s no excuse to make the lower seating viewing worse with obstructions.
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The biggest obstruction down that low is the players.
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We were sitting on the 4th row and I’m short and can never see Derek at field level. We moved up. Agree on higher seats, better view.
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Why didn’t you move to the upper deck? It wasn’t a sellout. Thousands of available seats.
I was on the Rice side (in the shade) and I never saw/ noticed the tents. Glad we had the forethought to protect our players. This macho Junction Boys mentality needs to disappear because being dehydrated can impact anyone. If the goal is fo keep these kids/ young men safe, use the tents.
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I love sarcasm
Twinmom . . . . . Agree on higher seats, better view. IMHO, The best seats to watch a football game are maybe 20 rows up and directly between the goal posts. In BB, same, just high enough to see over the backboard. If you like to see what is really going on (line blocking, rout running, secondary coverage, fast breaks, running plays etc) I discovered this in the dome. Purple section between the goal posts. Great seats with the best view if you want to see what really goes on during a game . . . . .
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The medical tent has been a thing for 2-3yrs most NFL teams pop one up anytime a injured player has to come off the field and get checked out. They even do it at indoor games.
The medical tent is mostly for privacy, so it shouldn’t really matter whether or not the game is indoors.
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