Did they have to kick out any visiting fans because their stadium was held together by duct tape, twine, and lego sets?
Herman got into an argument with John Lopez who is on the radio in Houston. Lopez is a former Chronicle reporter and aggy who makes it seem like he has connections to the aggy program. Anyways, Herman caught him lying/making **** up and called him out over it both on social media and then on the radio. http://www.houstonpress.com/news/uhs-tom-herman-clashes-with-radio-hosts-on-air-8051364 " ..... It could have all been prevented if Lopez and/or Wright had ever actually bothered to make their presence known at the University of Houston. They never attended a practice this season. They never came to a game. They never came to a press conference. They had Herman on just once during the season, and never bothered to talk to him at any other time. None of that, of course, happened. What instead happened is that 610 doubled down, going so far as to basically state it doesn’t matter what the actual facts were since the Cougars and Allen did have a mutual interest—the argument essentially being that facts are unimportant if the essence is kind of sort of correct. If you listen to the interview, you’ll note that Herman makes an analogy to reporting a story about a fire, stating that Lopez is claiming that reporting a deadly fire in Houston is correct even if it’s actually a small fire with no injuries in Phoenix because he got the fact about there being a fire somewhere correct. Herman says Lopez's December 13 story was incorrect no meeting between Herman, Allen, and a UH coach on December 13, as Lopez had reported. Of course, facts do matter. As Duarte and Berman reported, following up with their sources, there was no meeting in Houston that day. Kyle Allen debunked the report, stating he was in Arizona. Even Lopez seems to backtrack during the interview with Herman, implying that there was instead a phone conversation, which is not what he initially reported. And still Wright claims there’s nothing wrong with the story because it doesn’t matter if you’re hit by a red car or an orange car — yes, this exchange actually happened, and yes it’s just as mind-numblingly stupid as it sounds because, as any lawyer will tell you, the color the damn car that hits you absolutely matters....... "
Do we really have to keep referring to UH as Cougar High? The school stopped being a glorified junior college a long, long time ago and is now a booming research school. They are not Rice and never will be and they are not Texas or A&M, but there is not near as much difference now as there was 20 years ago. And their new football stadium is, by all accounts, a superb place to attend a game. And none of us know what is on Herman's mind. One thing the aggies do have right about us is that our arrogance is boundless.
Some Longhorns are actually pretty humble, which is another thing that makes us the best ever, our humility.
But yea, I'm not into all that name calling either. Other than calling aggy, aggy, I stop there. I remember watching phi slamma jamma play when I was a youngster. Will always respect them for that
You don't even have to go that far back, or to basketball. Many of us remember the UH football team with their run-and-shoot in the late 80s. They scored 60, 66 and 47 on us over a 3-year period, 1987-89. In fact the score differential in 88 and 89 were 24-113. Gosh, those were nasty years for Houston, winning Heismans and all that.
As @Statalyzer pointed out on another the thread, the bleacher gate incident. If you had tickets to that game, first found out their subpar bleachers collapsed and then were told "you can use your ticket to watch the game in our gym because we insist on playing in our 30,000 seat high school stadium" you will never forget. They permanently earned the name Cougar High for that incident and permanently should be left out of the Big 12 for it. The name is not from arrogance, it's from their own bush league actions. #neverforget
That 87-89 run by Houston on us (173-64 on points) actually ended quite delightfully, as we finished them off (seemingly for the next quarter century) in a nationally televised night game using what is now universally considered as the wildest atmosphere ever at DKR, in 1990. I am 100% sure that I was the only guy in the stands who wasn't drunk. I was a nerdy grad student who had too much PhD research to do , to be drunk. I still cannot figure out what made everybody get so well-coordinated to be drunk and loud that day. We were up by some four TDs before the #3 ranked Houston even had 100 yards with their high-flying offense. What amazing fun that shock-the-nation tour was. The last of my 5.5 grad school years at Texas, and it made me forget a lot of the pain from the previous 5 years. Butch Hadnot, Stanley Richard, Peter Gardere, and the gang. That team was legit, though the nasties from Miami laid the wood on them in January.
Didn't Dimel's Demons defecate during the rest of that season losing all their games to attempt to ruin the Texas SOS?
TDECU Stadium is very well laid out. I took my dad (Navy vet) to the the Navy game this year. Other than the Coogs beating Navy, we enjoyed ourselves.
The school that says they never lose, they just "run out of time" also calls Texas arragant. I have always asked aggi (plural of aggy) about this. Please show me this in the standings. I see wins, losses, and even ties. I see no collumn for "ran out of time." This must be how they win all those fictional championships that they also paint on walls. Nothing arragant about that either, just paint a number on the wall and call yourself champions, then dare anybody to question it. Never use aggy as a barometer for calling anybody arragant.
1990 Houston game was the loudest and most fun game I have attended in close to fifty years of going. My favorite team however was the defense under Akers that had more three and outs than most teams have first downs. God, they were great. We gave them standing ovations every time they ran the other team's offense off the field in three. Which was most of the time. This year's super bowl defenses reminded me of that team.
