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Hands off! He's OUR coach!
By Riverboat in Flotsam and Jetsam
December 2, 2011

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One morning on my way to work a month ago, the obnoxious DJ on our rock station was laughing about the Houston Cougars being invited into the Eastern Conference. I called and left a voice message with a short quiz:

Which team from Texas is the only one in the Top 25?

a) Texas Longhorns b) Texas Aggies c) Houston Cougars

If you answered a or b, [sound of buzzer] go to the back of the class!

Since that time, the Longhorns stumbled into the end zone enough times to beat the Aggies and are ranked once again.

For the last couple of weeks I've been hearing from disgruntled Longhorn and Aggie fans on various sites as well as my place of employment that the Houston Cougars don't deserve the ranking they've been getting. At this writing, the Cougars are #6. Yeah, the naysayers grumble, we're unbeaten, but we've been playing "scrub" teams. Incidentally, the Cougars are playing against another ranked team for the conference championship. And I don’t think anyone thought UCLA was a “scrub” team when we beat them early this season. The ESPN Game Day team came to our campus for the SMU game for live coverage. Maybe, just maybe folks at the national level think we deserve some respect.

Now that the Aggies have fired their coach, suddenly OUR coach is high on their list of must-haves. Also Arizona State. And who knows who else. It must really gravel folks to admit that maybe the University of Houston has a decent program. Well, we’ve certainly had our share of coaches that others lured away. Art Briles, for example, left UH four years ago for Baylor, another ranked team.

I don’t blame the Aggies for wanting Kevin Sumlin. Nothing succeeds like success. Meanwhile, hands off our coach!