re: Exciting time for college football fans in Houston....

UH did a 2-1 with them if I'm not mistaken. UH played them twice in Austin for one trip to Houston. UH had not been on campus long and had just recently renovated there home stadium. Everyone was jacked about hosting Texas on the University of Houston campus. UT fans were pissed off and making noise that there weren't enough seats for them to see the game. They were accustomed to the SWC days of being able to get 30k seats. THAT was the problem. UH TRIED to accommodate them by bringing in 8k extra seats in the end-zone. UT fans kept visiting the construction site and BITC#ing to Dodds about how unsafe it looked. Those bleachers were built by the same company that built them in ski slopes for the Utah winter Olympics. The structure was certified by an engineering firm. Art Smith went up there and later claimed it made him feel unsafe... and therefore, UH were closing the section. Had they seated the Texas fans there, everything would have been fine.

Anyway, at the end of the day, all UH wanted to do was keep our bargain with Texas. They got two games at their stadium, and UH got one at ours. UH was screwed because they didn't cave to Texas and move ther one and only home game in the series.