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I graduated from Stratford (in Houston), then graduated from SMU in 01.
Took a few summer school classes at UH to help get core classes out of the way since I was going for a triple major in CS, Math, and Fine Arts.
I know the UH area fairly well (I'm from, and currently live in the Houston area), and it's not safe, by any means. To say you feel safe there, says more about you, than the school.
More importantly, the people I know that graduated from high school, then applied for college, only applied to UH because they needed a fallback option in case they weren't accepted elsewhere.

I'm not saying that to be rude. I'm saying that because those were my experiences.

With that out of the way, the professors in the classes I took at UH, were awesome.
I thought the science and mathematics department was really top notch; from an undergrad perspective.

Finally, the best education I received wasn't from college. It was from real life work, and mentors. One of which, got his masters from UH business school.

My jab at UH earlier was just a friendly jab, not personal.

Anyways, back to football.

I’ve known Case since he was 5, I’m good friends with his dad Steve and have done some FCA work with him. Steve is a regional director for the group, and my eldest was in Case’s wedding. Does not really matter if you believe, it happened. Like I said, no agenda, Dallas has its own issues.

Go trolling somewhere else …. Hey this I my fan/team site … take a good look in the mirror.

the university of Houston has almost no redeeming qualities. i hate TCU, but at least it is a top 100 university, even if only by a couple.....UH isnt even top 200. and now the wheels are off the UH football program.

PSCA wrote:I’ve known Case since he was 5, I’m good friends with his dad Steve and have done some FCA work with him. Steve is a regional director for the group, and my eldest was in Case’s wedding. Does not really matter if you believe, it happened. Like I said, no agenda, Dallas has its own issues.

Go trolling somewhere else …. Hey this I my fan/team site … take a good look in the mirror.

Even if it did happen, apparently it didn't scare him off considering he sill lives there.

CenTXpony wrote:My dad played football and ran track for UH and said that he wouldn't even go off campus after 9. If it weren't for their track and field program he said that he would have left in a heart beat. He also played against ED and CJ and said they were men amongst boys! Back to the argument, I'd feel a lot better about my kids attending SMU rather than UH.

Of course you'd feel that way. We're on an SMU site.

skurtn wrote:I graduated from Stratford (in Houston), then graduated from SMU in 01.
Took a few summer school classes at UH to help get core classes out of the way since I was going for a triple major in CS, Math, and Fine Arts.
I know the UH area fairly well (I'm from, and currently live in the Houston area), and it's not safe, by any means. To say you feel safe there, says more about you, than the school.
More importantly, the people I know that graduated from high school, then applied for college, only applied to UH because they needed a fallback option in case they weren't accepted elsewhere.

I'm not saying that to be rude. I'm saying that because those were my experiences.

With that out of the way, the professors in the classes I took at UH, were awesome.
I thought the science and mathematics department was really top notch; from an undergrad perspective.

Finally, the best education I received wasn't from college. It was from real life work, and mentors. One of which, got his masters from UH business school.

My jab at UH earlier was just a friendly jab, not personal.

Anyways, back to football.

Gee, tell me how you really feel. Knowing the attitude from a typical SMU person towards UH and the fact that its hard to tell a person's tolls over the internet without the use of smilies, it's hard to tell whether or not its friendly jabbing.

gostangs wrote:the university of Houston has almost no redeeming qualities. i hate TCU, but at least it is a top 100 university, even if only by a couple.....UH isnt even top 200. and now the wheels are off the UH football program.

We could go 0-12 and still outrecruit SMU. Here's what I don't get, if SMU is superior to UH in every way, shape and form. How come we can get kids from Southlake and Plano (for example) which is supposedly SMU territory, to come to 3rd ward? How come we can fill our stadium and keep people coming back to the ghetto and shut down our tailgate 15 minutes before kickoff, yet SMU can't get people to keep coming back to University Park? Nor can they get people off of the Boulevard and interested in the game. Even when winning.


Back on topic, Pachall likely made his comments because of Ford's perception of not having enough support among other things and likely knows a few SMU players personally. I think he's also referring his last trip to ford in 2010? (How was the crowd in that game?)

Crowd in 2010 was overflow and 70-30 SMU so nice try

Case and his wife don't live in that garage apartment anymore, nor that area.

i think UH gets kids from Southlake and Plano, because even in southlake and plano there is a bottom ten percent that has to go somewhere.

PSCA wrote:Case and his wife don't live in that garage apartment anymore, nor that area.

I was talking about the city in general.

gostangs wrote:i think UH gets kids from Southlake and Plano, because even in southlake and plano there is a bottom ten percent that has to go somewhere.

As I recall, a number of you folks wanted Piland yet, he chose UH. (I'm not sure if JJ offered him or not). Plus the nation's top kicker in this year's recruiting class is at Southlake and he chose UH. We shouldn't be able to easily pick up kids in your own backyard like this.

I don't know what Case's attentions are long term for the Houston area, he wants to get into coaching. For now, it would be a little diffuicult not to reside in the area given the fact he's on the Texans practice squad and the organization really likes him.

TCU definitely has us beat in the cheerleader/dance team department.

UH was not the UH it is right now until Art Briles showed up … and he did one heck of a job laying the foundation, and Sumlin ran with it from there (he did a great job). If they don’t produce those numbers (stats) and results going forward, I suspect that will have a big impact. Don’t under estimate the Case factor the last 6 yrs in recruiting. Again, Briles, and Case had a TREMENDOUS influence on recruiting the "O" side (QB, WR and the team as a whole).

Hey, we are conference and division mates … both moving to a BCS conference next year. I want us both to do well for those critics of C-USA, the B-12 that thinks we are step children, and Texas football in general.

TCU has many teams beat in that department. I wonder if KP till dates that one dancer?

Highly doubtful KP is going to find anything close to that quality anywhere in Washington....

PSCA wrote:UH was not the UH it is right now until Art Briles showed up … and he did one heck of a job laying the foundation, and Sumlin ran with it from there (he did a great job). If they don’t produce those numbers (stats) and results going forward, I suspect that will have a big impact. Don’t under estimate the Case factor the last 6 yrs in recruiting. Again, Briles, and Case had a TREMENDOUS influence on recruiting the "O" side (QB, WR and the team as a whole).

Hey, we are conference and division mates … both moving to a BCS conference next year. I want us both to do well for those critics of C-USA, the B-12 that thinks we are step children, and Texas football in general.

JJ has done a lot to bring SMU out of the cellar and shaped the program up to bring them to an AQ conference. (Even though its only for a year). It's hard for UH and SMU folks to get along for very long because of the stereotypes both schools hold against each other. If anything, I say that an in-state rivalry has been born.

PSCA wrote:TCU has many teams beat in that department.

I can't argue with this.

RGV Pony wrote:Crowd in 2010 was overflow and 70-30 SMU so nice try

wow. just wow