Top 10 Quotes in UH Football History

Tom Wilson in the locker room to all the new freshmen first day of practice “You think you’re tough enough to play in the SWC?” then jabs fake knife into his thigh.

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I am still proud to be a Coog

Art

Didn’t Helton say that the days of running up the score was over or something like that?

We need to flex our Big XII muscles.

-me

“We played well except for offense, defense, and special teams.”

-Dana Dimel

Early in his Houston coaching career the Coogs were not doing so well and a dummy symbolizing Coach Yeoman was hung in effigy on campus.
To which the future HOF coach replied, and I am paraphrasing, “the only perfect man to walk this earth was hung on a cross. I am in no way perfect but I think I can handle it”

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He treats us like men, he lets us wear earrings.

Torrin Polk

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In reference to an excellent defensive performance, CBY was quoted…

They played like Mad Dogs.

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blinks nervously

-Tom Herman

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I recall Art Briles saying something like this…“It’s not that we didn’t have the killer instinct. The other team just didn’t want to die.”

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“Other teams are crawling, we’re flying”

“If we don’t execute, St. Mary’s Junior High might beat us. If we do, nobody can stop us”

“The truth is, our offense is virtually uncontrollable; it’s impossible to stop, even by ourselves”

“Hey, Hoss, the main reason people play football is for fun, and this offense is fun”

-JJ

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Best class since Yeoman

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Do you want to play with new custom clubs or old clubs.

Art Briles

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“Don’t believe everything you read”

  • Tom “Eye Twitch” Herman
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“Look around you, Coog nation is back”

  • CTH at the Peach Bowl celebration
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Listen “hoss,” this is a great thread.
Nominated for greatest of all time.
Laughed all the way through.

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“They beat us till we cried…then they beat us more because we cried…”

–unknown (to me anyways)

“West Coast sources…”

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Never had sweat between his legs… something like that from Helton era

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The knife was real, the leg was fake.

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