1. UTEP travels
extremely well. We were pretty amazed at how much orange was in the crowd. I would say that they made up 30-40% of the crowd. I recall this being one of the reasons that they were given the Conference USA invite over Louisiana Tech and North Texas. It seemed unlikely considering that El Paso is closer to San Diego than Houston, but there you go. I assume that many were already in the Houston area as I cannot imagine that many making the 700+ mile trip.
2. I almost felt bad for the passionate UTEP fans when the
tide turned in UH's direction. At least for the ones that did make the trip from El Paso.
3. The Cougar secondary is just dreadful. It seemed like there was always at least one UTEP reciever wide open.
4. It's been said before, but it's worth saying again. Kevin Kolb is a really impressive athlete. He's not a Heisman QB, but he may well be a pro QB someday. At the least, I would imagine his versitility would make him a real asset in the Arena League.
5. It's funny. I rarely remember yelling that loud at football games, but my voicebox always hurts the next day.
6. The Cougars ended both their 3-game losing streak and UTEP's 3-game winning streak.
7. Though I wish that UH games were televised, when you're there it's much more fun to watch an untelevised game. It's not nearly as broken up without the TV timeouts. I noticed the same during the last quarter of the Texas-Iowa State game, which wasn't televised due to a 1-hour rain delay and Texas's insurmountable lead.
8. I really enjoy games at Robertson Stadium, though I wish that UH could mend fences with Texas by agreeing to play in Reliant as Rice does.
9. It was multi-cultural day or somesuch. They had ten different people say something in ten different languages before saying "Go Coogs!" Subtitles on the video monitor would have been helpful, but probably hard to pull off.
10. I'm definitely glad I went to this game instead of the
Louisiana-Lafayette one. It's more fun when your team wins and very not-fun to watch a team slowly give the game away in the last quarter.
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