I thought they were suppose to get artificial turf for non-Texans game. http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Reliant-to-use-artificial-turf-for-non-Texans-3875501.php
That article says delivery next month (October) but then mentions it being used for this game. The turf probably hasn't arrived yet.
Maybe read the article you linked to, since it's dated September 18th, and says "will take delivery next month."
Observations: The defensive and offensive lines for Houston are HUGE, biggest in recent memory for the Coogs. UH linebackers are very active. Piland looks like he is twelve. Spencer impressed the heck out of me. UH looks like they have the pieces to do well. I just don't think Rice is much of a test, but you have to start somewhere. My first time to see UH play and if I didn't know their record I would say they looked like a team with talent, a possible C-USA contender.
I did read it and like what marks0223 said, article mentioned that it could be used for this game. Obviously it hasn't been installed yet, but wondering if anyone knew the scoop on an update to it.
Piland has NO touch on his passes whatsoever and an awkward throwing motion. You don't need to throw the piss out of ball on every play.
Piland is so bad it's comical. He throws sidearm with the slowest delivery on earth, and every ball is 100mph or into the dirt. He absolutely sucks, and is the worst QB we have had since before Pardee. All hail Charles Sims, Richie Leone, and one hell of an effort by the defense. Oh, and Spencer too. He was Mr. Everything tonight.
He will come up with some lame excuse about injuries, bad field etc. He Needs to take that ass kicking like a man. Scoreboard brah!
It said it could be used for the proposed Mississippi State vs. Oklahoma St. game NEXT YEAR and the return of Houston vs. Rice, since you know, Houston vs. Rice is returning to Reliant next year. But whatever.
As I read that article, it's really badly worded. They mention delivery next month, making use tonight impossible, then talk about this year's games too, without making it clear that he's talking about "the field" as in the stadium this fall, and not the new actual artificial "field" for this year's games. I see how you were reading that now. Sorry if I came off like a douche.
so, you have this much trouble with Rice football. really enjoy the moment coogs. like you are going to be able to touch us at baseball, again.
you do realize that talking about someone when they're not even around is the ultimate success for a troll, right?
Is it possible to get free/discounted food/stuff anywhere after a UH win? Or if the texans win by 100 today?
Wish I read this before the game :grin: http://thedailycougar.com/2012/09/27/words-of-encouragement/ From: The Daily Cougar Spoiler Dear Alcoholics, If you’re reading this, it means you’ve managed to stop weeping into your Harvard rejection letters long enough to check the news. Congrats. With the Bayou Bucket around the corner, we Coogs just wanted to remind you how much we love your football team. The “just for fun” mentality you all play with is adorable. It’s heartwarming to see a school like Rice jeopardize its reputation by allowing such a talentless team the opportunity to play with real college football players. No matter how pitiful your team’s performance is to watch, you still humbly ignore the pressure to improve. As long as everybody gets an orange slice at half time, the Owls can go home happy. However, some of your students still don’t seem to understand that your team is not meant to be serious. We find it surprising that Rice students are even aware the football team exists. We just didn’t think you all had the time to notice, in between lighting piles of money on fire and collecting BMWs. Nonetheless, a number of you believe that by some miracle Rice has a chance this Saturday. Aren’t you all supposed to be smart? For Rice, the Bayou Bucket is an opportunity to prove your worth. For us, it’s two bye weeks in a row. During the last 20 years, Rice has taken the game of football and turned it into its own mutilated creation. It’s like Frankenstein’s monster, except worse to look at and nobody would ever spend time reading about it. Watching Rice play is like watching rice. The last time something exciting happened at Rice Stadium, John F. Kennedy was talking about going to the moon. Rice’s inability to recruit decent football players is not the fault of a coach with a 45-56 career record, a crumbling stadium or the school’s admissions standards. Good football players don’t go to Rice because when they visit campus they meet 3,000 scarf-wearing “artists” with fake British accents trying to read them poetry. Don’’t be bitter that the Big East didn’t want anything to do with you. Conference USA needs you. Who else is going to make UAB and Marshall feel good about themselves? All jokes aside, we really do look forward to seeing you this Saturday at Reliant. It’s been a while. You remember where it is, right? It seems like away games are the only time you snobby birds leave your golden-laced nests. Let’s have a good game this weekend. We hope for a strong turnout but of course we don’t expect many Rice students to show up once they find out there’s no valet parking. Go Coogs. From: The Rice Thresher Spoiler While Rice University students have grown accustomed to the Staff Editorials displaying the full splendor of the English tongue, this week the University of Houston has challenged us to a match of verbal jousting to precede Saturday’s Bayou Bucket. We fear that if we hurl insults at the University of Houston using our regular lexicon the message will be entirely lost on their not-entirely-refined intellects. Therefore, we apologize to our Rice readers for writing the rest of this editorial to the lowest common denominator so that the Cougars may understand. U of H sucks. Imagine Nicki Minaj and Rebecca Black performing a song without autotune and at full volume. Now multiply that by 10. (Note to U of H freshmen: Multiplication is like adding again and again. Never mind. You’ll learn about it in your sophomore math classes.) Rice does not suck. In fact, it is quite good at many things like winning Nobel Prizes and getting its undergraduates jobs. No, we are not the prettiest people, but we marry the prettiest people because we earn lots of money. One thing at which we are not always great is football. That’s because we are a small school, and our football team goes to class with the rest of the students. Apparently that’s not a thing at other schools. Anyway, when Rice plays big state schools, we are always the underdogs. Oh, did we say big state schools? We meant big state schools that aren’t U of H. You see, in the last three years, Rice has beat U of H for the Bayou Bucket twice. This means that U of H loses at the one thing at which they should win. When we see you guys yelling “Go Coogs” and throwing up your shocking hand symbol, two things come to mind for a Rice fan. The first is that no one should do that with their hands in public. The second is pity. You will say that we are wrong and that for a while U of H did well at football. The reason for that was Case Keenum, and that reason graduated. Now you are set to join the Big East, and some of you are very excited, but like Sarah Palin trying to be elected vice president, it probably won’t work out quite like you think. (You may not get that joke, but that’s okay.) Teasing aside, we are sure you will succeed in the Big East, just like you did in Conference USA. If your definition of success means having a losing record to us. So when Chris Boswell kicks the extra point that cements Rice’s victory, know that while we cheer in joy, we shed a small tear for you guys. We don’t know how it feels to lose like that, but we can imagine it is quite unpleasant. (Note: Unpleasant means sad.)
