Don't miss the High School Coach tonight on ESPN2

FirefightnRick · December 2, 2006

Art Briles made his name in Texas, not as a QB for Houston, even though he was a good one back then, but as a dominating HS coach that took the laughing stock of a HS 4A football program and built them into a state-wide, dominating powerhouse...Stephenville Yellowjackets.

Tonight he leads his Houston Cougars back towards a conference championship on the Duece.

Rick

PlummMeanGreen · December 2, 2006

Art Briles made his name in Texas, not as a QB for Houston, even though he was a good one back then, but as a dominating HS coach that took the laughing stock of a HS 4A football program and built them into a state-wide, dominating powerhouse...Stephenville Yellowjackets.
Tonight he leads his Houston Cougars back towards a conference championship on the Duece.
Rick
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Was in Stephenville a few weeks ago and met the grandfather of one of Brile's UH recruits and he said the UH players down in H-town think the former Texas HS coaching success story literally hung the moon.

No one can know or predict who would be a successful HFC at UNT at this point, but I think whoever we hire will know for them to make the next step up and out of Denton (and you could put any non BCS city's name in place of Denton on this, too); anyway, that they will have to beat some OOC schools, probaby need to beat some ranked OOC schools and they will need to have the Mean Green in the Top 25 for at least one or two seasons before anyone from Big Time U would look at them. If DD had won the SBC with some of his teams ranked Top 25, then DD would have gotten his hearts desire and away from what many seasons of his post-game/Coach's Show radio comments suggested was a man who was not happy to be where he was.

I think if the DD/UNT Story taught anything is that you don't leave Denton for the Big 10 or Big 12 by just beating SBC schools and getting to the NO's Bowl (no matter how many times that would happen in a row); and I think we have more than ample proof that proves such a theory as that to be pretty well right on target.

FirefightnRick · December 2, 2006

Good job by the coogs taking down Southern Miss 35-20. Man I'd love to see NT running some version of that offense. Great stuff.

Rick

Edited December 2, 2006 by FirefightnRick

MeanGreengdub · December 2, 2006

Art Briles made his name in Texas, not as a QB for Houston, even though he was a good one back then, but as a dominating HS coach that took the laughing stock of a HS 4A football program and built them into a state-wide, dominating powerhouse...Stephenville Yellowjackets.
Tonight he leads his Houston Cougars back towards a conference championship on the Duece.
Rick
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What's that picture from??

DallasGreen · December 2, 2006

What's that picture from??
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New Mexico State game for SBC Championship a few years ago.

El Paso Eagle · December 2, 2006

What's that picture from??
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I thought it was after Dickey was fired

Eagle1855 · December 2, 2006

I attended this game with my soon to be brother in law last night. It was a great game, great atmosphere, and a good win for the home team.

Regarding a previous thread, the game did sell out. Final attendance was a standing-room-only 31,800. Largest crowd ever at Robertson. That stadium looks great packed. Great sight lines, well lit.

U of H has one of the most unconventional offenses I have watched. This was my second UH game this year, but Briles really pulled out all the stops in this one. In fact, every time they went to the I-form, So Miss had to call time out because they had no idea what UH would do in a more conventional formation!

Briles loves to take shots downfield. It was a lot of fun to watch. They have a ton of speed. They also went for it on 4th down twice in one drive, ultimately leading to points. At one point, my brother in law (who was a college QB) leaned over and said "you know, Briles calls plays like he is playing playstation", which I thought was a pretty accurate observation.

The funniest part of the game had to be the end of the first half. not sure if any of y'all saw this on TV, but with 23 seconds left on the goal line and no times out, UH tried to run up the middle and got denied. Well UH lined up to spike the ball, but the SO Miss players wouldn't get off the running back, Battle, and the refs didn't bother pulling them off so that they could reset the ball so time ran out with the Cougars on the So Miss goaline and nothing to show for it. The officials were greeted with some of the loudest boos Ive heard and all of a sudden that side of the field was littered with beer cups. Tons of people started slinging full cups of beer onto the field, one guy threw one all the way to mid field, prompting me to ask if maybe he could throw a football like that for, say, the Texans! Anyways, it may not have been the classiest thing, but I could definitely understand the frustration. It had already been one of the worst officiating jobs I had seen in a while, and that just pushed it over the top. I will say that I now see why they don't serve beers at most college football games!

All in all, it was a great time. All I could think about was how great it would be to someday have a new stadium packed with NT fans for our own Conference USA championship game. Of course thats little more than a pipe dream right now... but someday!

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