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Houston Cougars Football Thread

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by Chopped, Aug 29, 2011.

  1. Snow Villiers

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  2. Tomstro

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    If we beat OU we will definitely be in the top 10.

    Coogs- 38
    Sooners- 30
     
  3. Nook

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    If UH beats OU; they will move up more than two spots in the polls.
     
  4. Plowman

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    UH should have been 11 ish....with a win over OU taking them up several spots.. 7 or so...depending on what's going on above them.

    As it stands, a win over OU, likely takes us to 10....win out and watch them drop seems to be the deal.

    Soon to have that much tougher schedule we all want.
     
  5. Buck Turgidson

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    The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single game.
     
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  7. MystikArkitect

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    Season Tickets shipped today. Not sure if they make you sign for them or not.
     
  8. J.R.

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">big news conf for <a href="https://twitter.com/UHouston">@UHouston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UHCougars">@UHCougars</a> to announce record donation to UH Athletics. Thurs at 9:30am <a href="https://twitter.com/KPRC2">@KPRC2</a></p>&mdash; Randy McIlvoy (@RandyMcIlvoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandyMcIlvoy/status/768194067070988288">August 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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  9. Nook

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    The timing of this is very interesting.
     
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    Interesting.
    John Moores and his wife gave 51 million to UH back in the early 90's (not all of this went to the athletic department however).
     
  11. J.R.

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    Guess more appropriate for the UH basketball thread but Tilman donating $20M for the basketball arena, including naming rights.

     
  12. Nook

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    That is what I thought; this was known some time ago. He also is expected to play a large part in giving more money to the football program in 2018.
     
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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lz5b1zypHUY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    https://youtu.be/lz5b1zypHUY

    Not sure if anyone's see this yet.
     
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    I got my tickets in the mail today. Super pumped for the OU game.
     
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    Nice. Someone put in some effort there which is nice to see for a non playoff game. I thought it a little weird that the big highlights consisted of opponents failures, the missed 2 point conversion on OK, and the missed FG on Hou, but I like what they were doing here.
     
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    Yeah, they built that arts performance center. John O' Quinn donated a bunch for the Robertson renovation, C.T. Bauer paid for that investment center at Melcher just before he died and they renamed CBA after him. The money's probably always been there but they maybe needed to see some real growth and continuity after watching Helton tread water and then Dimel just crater.
     
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    The Moore's gift built the Athletics building, Cougar Field and The Moore's School of Music. I think this donation is the largest ever just for athletics.
     
  18. Roc Paint

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    The power of money... pun intended. I can't wait to see how much is being donated.
     
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    Was reading something a few weeks ago about John O'Quinn, and that when he died in 2009 he owned around 1,200 classic cars. This was among the largest in the world, but on the night he crashed into a tree going 60 MPH on Allen Pkwy he was driving a Chevy Suburban.
     
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    20 million to the athletic department for naming rights for the new basketball arena. I thought we knew this already.:eek:
     

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