by Guest » Mon Dec 09, 2002 8:36 pm
I was at that game, and I've never been so angry at a team or a coach as I was that day at the UH team and its coaches. Pardee once had class, but that was years ago. To have a team throwing bombs when its ahead by 60 or 70 points - against a team of freshmen, no less - was one of the most classless moves in the history of sports. Who was it - Jerry Glanville? - who sent the game ball to SMU that week because he'd seen the story and thought it was bush-league on Houston's part? You never think of Glanville and class in the same thought, but in that case, it fit.
Jack Pardee and that entire coaching staff can rot in anonymity, as far as I'm concerned. He proved in the NFL that when his talent matches that of his opponents, he's a mediocre coach, at best.