Without your leadership and support along with the new facilities and much needed dorm life that y’all made happen…This Big 12 P-5 thingy would have never happened…
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Best President in school history!
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Phillip Hoffman was a good one as well!
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Statues. For both of them. Now.
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Thank you to all the diehards that sat through the 0-fer season. And kept UH football afloat.
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I’ve been through it all. I won’t attempt to summarize all the dark, sometimes seemed hopeless days. I knew Phil Hoffman well, attended get togethers large and small in his home. Sadly he was followed by a parade of the indifferent, the incompetent, the apathetic and the toxic wannabes. From that experience I learned, as if I didn’t already know, true leadership is a rare and treasured talent.
We are so fortunate to have found Renu and whoever was responsible for that decision so many years ago deserves our accolades as well.
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And so was Art Smith. In 2001, very shortly after the nation had been attacked by terrorists, while the Cougars were barrelling headlong into the football worse season in history (0-11), and with #5 Texas coming to play us at Robertson Stadium, for safety reasons he refused to allow the use of the temporary metal bleachers that had been erected behind the north end zone (for UT fans), and then told De Loss Dodds that no, we won’t move the game to the dome or Rice Stadium in order to accomodate UT’s fans.
Infuriated, Dodds’ response was to refuse to ever play UH again after the then already scheduled return game in Austin in 2002. And that’s why UT finds a way to play Rice in Houston, but not UH.
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If we NEVER play the Sucksters again in any sport, it will be just fine with me. We DON’T need them.
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From your mouth to God’s ears! Couldn’t agree with you more.
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Yeah, Art went out on a limb after personally inspecting that setup. He made the right call
in my book. Even though the company that built them had history of doing this ( I think even for the
Olympics) , it looked shaky to me.
As for Dodds, well folks that hold grudges, tend to go thru life angry a lot. His request or desire
to move game was reasonable…but not his call to make. Oh well, I don’t want to rehash that
long bitter chapter; let’s just celebrate the day and efforts of Renu and Tillman.
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Yes! Thank you!
Now, time to kick some butt!
You’re welcome.
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Indeed. Campus rebuild, lots of new dorms, new stadium, IPF, BB practice facility, the FC,
VHR / R1 rating, med school, college of nursing, numerous other academic buildings, 1.2 billion
fundraiser, endowment over 1 billion, AND now THIS !
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Dr. Khator – the greatest hire in UH history.
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Dr. Khator – the greatest hire in UH history.
And his wife is not too bad either!
Seriously, it took a lady born in India, came as an immigrant, to lead us here.
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Don’t forget the PARKING GARAGES!! Truly visionary
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You guys will never know what we did to keep UH Football alive those years. It wasn’t enough that we bought season tickets and attended games, I remember going at the tailgates, we would take any extra tickets people had in abundance (CoachV was good for at least 20) and we’d take them into the stadium with us and go in and re-enter using those extra tickets just to prop up attendance stats. Remember back in the day, the ticket takers just had a plastic bag to keep the ticket stubs in. Sometimes I’d tear 10 tickets at a time and throw them in.
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