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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #798 on: October 16, 2023, 11:55:47 AM »
Anyway...

Horns have to play Houston this weekend, AT Houston. This was likely a barb aimed directly at the Texas administration, who have refused to play Houston in any major sport, ever since the event called "Bleachergate."

Bleachergate occurred in 2001, when Texas was scheduled to play an away game at Houston.  This was the first time the Horns had agreed to play them after the dissolution of the SWC 6 years earlier.  UT asked if Houston would be willing to move the game to the Astrodome because it accommodated more spectators, and offered a million dollars to do so.  UH declined because they wanted to host the game in their own stadium and maintain some sort of homefield advantage, which is totally understandable.  But they did agree to add some additional temporary bleachers in the endzone to serve a larger crowd, and they sold those tickets to Texas fans.

A day or two before the game, inspectors took a look at those temporary bleachers, and immediately condemned them.  They had been hastily and sloppily assembled, and were deemed unsafe for occupation.  The day before the game, Texas fans were notified of this, but were not offered a refund on the tickets they'd already purchased.  Instead, UH offered to let them all watch the game on the video screens in their basketball arena.

I guess some Texas fans did that, I don't know, but the Texas athletic department and adminsitration were furious, and from that day forward absolutely refused to schedule  Houston in any major sport, despite numerous advances and requests over the years.

So when it was announced that Houston and Texas would be overlapping in the B12 for a year, many Texas fans suspected that not only would Houston be on our schedule, but it would be a home game for the Coogs.  And... here we are.

For reference, here are pictures of the bleachers that were condemned, despite UH officials claiming they were just fine and that Texas officials were complaining about nothing:





And the sections that sat empty that night:




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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #799 on: October 16, 2023, 12:35:14 PM »
The Horns won that game 41 to 11
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #800 on: October 16, 2023, 12:40:41 PM »
The Horns are 22.5 pt favorites in this game against Houston

We just need to take care of business and go on down the road
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #801 on: October 16, 2023, 12:57:23 PM »

We just need to take care of business and go on down the road

Looking way down the road, in 2024 the Horns will begin their SEC slate with @Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss. St., @Texas A&M, @ Vanderbilt, and fellow SEC noob OU.  All dates TBD.  

Seems like these are all gonna be interesting just for the novelty of it, similar to watching A&M games back in 2012.  

OU, incidentally, will go @Auburn, @LSU, @Missouri, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, @Ole Miss, and fellow SEC noob Texas.

These all feel weird even to think about.  It's hard to picture OU @ Ole Miss.  

I notice that other than the RRS, UT and OU are handed completely dissimilar conference schedules.  For two teams sticking together in the same conference, this sure looks like being in two completely different conferences.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #802 on: October 16, 2023, 01:06:16 PM »
So, like, are all these conversations gonna be moved to the SEC board next year, or is everybody just gonna stay here for old times' sake?

It would be very Texas to keep a board separate from everybody else to talk about Texas. 

Kind of like those Tennessee yahoos with their own board.  Drew's not biased at all.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #803 on: October 16, 2023, 01:36:11 PM »
I have no problem moving to a new home
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« Reply #804 on: October 16, 2023, 02:30:38 PM »
B12 Backporch will stay.  I suspect everything else will move.

Heck it'll liven up the SEC board because right now the only folks that post there are you, CD, OAM, and Gigem.  With an occasional post from drew or one of the other Vols.


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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #805 on: October 16, 2023, 02:34:02 PM »
The Horns won that game 41 to 11
I was at that game.  Fortunately for me, I had enough Longhorn Foundation clout at the time, that I was able to buy tickets in the standard visitor allotment, which were situated in the actual stadium, not a temporary setup.  But I walked by those bleachers on the way in and just shook my head.

One interesting thing about UH-- at the time, no B12 stadiums were allowed to sell alcohol.  But UH had no such restrictions, being outside the B12.  So it was one of the very few college games I'd been to, and could drink (legally) inside the stadium.  And the beer prices weren't even that bad.  The UH folks I talked to said it was about the only way they could get fans into the stadium against any normal opponent not named Texas.

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« Reply #806 on: October 16, 2023, 02:55:38 PM »
Heck it'll liven up the SEC board because right now the only folks that post there are you, CD, OAM, and Gigem.  With an occasional post from drew or one of the other Vols.

That place used to be a hotbed of activity.  I don't know exactly what happened.  

It really went downhill after CFN merged with Scout and it slowly became infected with dozens of Alabama posters from Scout, who were far more asshat-y than the Bama fans we already had.  I started leaving during the offseasons because I couldn't stomach them anymore, one day I came back and everybody was gone.  I suspected many others had left for the same reason and didn't return, but I'll never know.  

I should've banned them with my magic mod powers I had at the time, but it was hard to nail them with any particular rules we had.  Being an a-hole was never against the rules.  They were just so good at it that it was sort of an abuse of an implicit ethos we had.  And nobody wants to be the authoritarian who ban-hammers everyone, so, the loud, obnoxious, intolerant idiots ruined the place.  

There's a moral to that story, but I'll leave it for another board.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #807 on: October 16, 2023, 03:29:00 PM »
I don't mind if it stays here for Nostaligia purposes.  Hooky would agree.  

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« Reply #808 on: October 16, 2023, 06:35:24 PM »
I'll visit the Porch with or w/o y'all
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #809 on: October 16, 2023, 07:02:44 PM »
I'll visit the Porch with or w/o y'all
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #810 on: October 16, 2023, 07:12:33 PM »
always do

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #811 on: October 17, 2023, 12:47:27 AM »
Anyway...

Horns have to play Houston this weekend, AT Houston. This was likely a barb aimed directly at the Texas administration, who have refused to play Houston in any major sport, ever since the event called "Bleachergate."

Bleachergate occurred in 2001, when Texas was scheduled to play an away game at Houston.  This was the first time the Horns had agreed to play them after the dissolution of the SWC 6 years earlier.  UT asked if Houston would be willing to move the game to the Astrodome because it accommodated more spectators, and offered a million dollars to do so.  UH declined because they wanted to host the game in their own stadium and maintain some sort of homefield advantage, which is totally understandable.  But they did agree to add some additional temporary bleachers in the endzone to serve a larger crowd, and they sold those tickets to Texas fans.

A day or two before the game, inspectors took a look at those temporary bleachers, and immediately condemned them.  They had been hastily and sloppily assembled, and were deemed unsafe for occupation.  The day before the game, Texas fans were notified of this, but were not offered a refund on the tickets they'd already purchased.  Instead, UH offered to let them all watch the game on the video screens in their basketball arena.

I guess some Texas fans did that, I don't know, but the Texas athletic department and adminsitration were furious, and from that day forward absolutely refused to schedule  Houston in any major sport, despite numerous advances and requests over the years.

So when it was announced that Houston and Texas would be overlapping in the B12 for a year, many Texas fans suspected that not only would Houston be on our schedule, but it would be a home game for the Coogs.  And... here we are.

For reference, here are pictures of the bleachers that were condemned, despite UH officials claiming they were just fine and that Texas officials were complaining about nothing:



[img width=500 height=383.991]https://i.imgur.com/VmlD8i4.jpg[/img]

And the sections that sat empty that night:

Fits right in with my perceptions of the U of H.
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