Great Reads...I can't wait for the season to start...and it's only May... Anyway, I didn't know Miami was playing at Reliant...I'll have to make sure I'm in town for that one... Go Coogs!!!
I'm not sure what to think about all these games being at reliant. I guess if we're making money off of it, it's cool.. cause we need to get out of debt. But still, the Rice and Miami games could have been two sellouts at Robertson this year..
I enjoy watching the Coogs play football. Briles' offense is so wacky and unique that it is entertaining. Obviously there is one game each year on their schedule that I hope they lose, but other than that I generally root for them. Kolb should be improved over last season, and Kendall Briles should make a difference in the secondary. Their schedule will be tougher though.
After the UT fiasco, and UCLA's complaints (justifiable or not), it'll be very, very hard to get programs like Miami to play at Robertson.
Dont get me wrong, i love Robertson, and feel that we should play the majority of our games there, but now as we climb back to respectability we need a top tier venue to both compete and bring in bigger and better opponents. The move to Robertson in the mid nineties was necessare due to the state of the program. A venue such as the astrodome just didnt make sense for us at that time. Now with our program hopefully growing and progressing by the year, i would like to see anywhere from 1-3 games a year at reliant, depending on the opponent.
I totally agree, but UT had no reason to gripe...when we signed the contract for home and home, it was signed for Robertson. UT expected us to change the venue at the 11th hour to accommodate them...and then to make matters worse, they adamantly perused the idea of adding temp. seating even though it was deemed dangerous by an independent commission...its thinking like that, that causes incidents like the A&M's bonfire catastrophe.
The Miami game was moved because of money reasons, U.H. is projected to make 3 times more for the Miami game than a normal home game at Robertson. But the Rice game is not our home game, it is Rice's this year, and they decided to move it from the craphole that is Rice Stadium. Next year the Rice game is our home game and I would suspect it will still be at Robertson, but who knows...
