I am sitting here at the cypress driving school waiting for my daughter to do her road test and a frame on the wall caught my eye. It was the newspaper clipping of the 1989 game. I thought it was amazing that we had no receivers to back anyone up and we even tried to play an equipment manager. Apparently that equipment manager works here. Just awesome!
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Trying to add pics. Guess I will do it from home since my little paperclip is not here anymore
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Man, I wish we werenât off TV that season. Would be fun to go back and watch a lot of those games.
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Some of the chronicle quotes are priceless.
Jenkins tried to add another body, Jeff Adams, an equipment manager who had played receiver at Baytown Lee. But the NCAA said that since Adams receives financial aid for books and tuition, he would count on the football scholarship roster Iâd suited up.
Gregg, asked if he still considers Pardee a friend, replied, âthis is not a good day to be asking me that.â
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But noting backup David Klingler was throwing deep passes until late, Gregg added, âI didnât appreciate that, whoever was responsible.â
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Greggâs emotions seemingly had cooled only a little by Sunday. âI wonât dwell on it now,â he said, âItâs over and done with. We will never, ever forget.â
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If all I was interested I. Was statistics, or Andreâs chances for the Heisman Trophy, weâd have left him in there to throw for about 12 touchdowns and 1,200 yards.
John Jenkins
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I donât think even Oklahoma would do something like this. Iâm sure they wouldnât. Tre Giller said.
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And my very very very favorite quote from the Jerry Wizig written article.
âWeâre going to be the power someday and things will change.â Receiver Michael Bowen said.
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SMU paid the price but James and Dickerson never really gave them what they were paying for. They cry about us for their own mistakes.
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Those were wild games in the DomeâŠand we had some epic shootouts with TCU as wellâŠ
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Maybe Forest wasnât watching the game⊠as UH ran the ball for most of the 4 th quarter.
SMU ( the school) got exactly what they deserved in that game !!!
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I REALLY hate SMU!! I would enjoy it if we could beat them in similar fashion this year.
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I was there like many of you. This was all too convenient for the National media to come down on us for running up the score. Today it is common practice andâŠno comments from the National media. What a bunch of expletives. smy was playing its first season from a two year âdeath penaltyâ probation. We were also on probation. Andre had one chance to win the Heisman. That is score as many points as possible and he did not play in the second half. He could have scored twice as much. What were we supposed to do. Take a knee on every play? Two weeks later atm scored 63 points on them. Did we hear a peep about atm running up the score? NO. The fact is that smu was not ready to play. They lost 3 to 49 the week prior and were mentally beaten before we played them. They knew exactly what they were going to face. We opened the season with a 69-0 against UNLV. They had no answers for us. Keep in mind that we were 10 points from an undefeated season.
I keep writing this over and over. Our potential is immense. That is why we are in a g5.
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They played Freshmen and Sophomores. so did we, although wee also played Juniors and Seniors. We pulled Andre, too bad Klingler was arguably just as good if not better. They were punished for their misdeeds nothing we did to them. We ran the entire 4th quarter. We pulled the starters.
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As I remember, Andre had 516 yards playing only the first quarter.
I canât find the box score, but the UPI article on the game says that Klingler threw 2 TD passes in the 4th quarter, one for 74 yards.
It was not UHâs finest moment.
I would suggest that SMU should have done something besides blitz on almost every down in the 4th quarter. They earned that whoopinâ.
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I was young and maybe a little âloosened upâ but we were cheering hard for triple digits and were disappointed they didnât hit it.
Thereâs something to that, but itâs far from the whole story. The program was at its nadir in â93 and â94. There was no compelling reason for a league to take us in the mid 90s. Football was averaging 1-2 wins a year and maybe 15k fans. Having said that there wasnât a compelling reason to invite Baylor either, and that was clearly about Bob Bullock and state politics. But after that it took us about 20 years to get the program where it needs to be. Weâre there now, however (still could use better football attendance), and the ACC and PAC 12 would surely like having a Top 10 football program and a perennial NCAA Tournament team located in a top 10 market. Hopefully there will soon be another round of realignment that will include UH.
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