Counting The Ways
For anyone keeping track of the creative ways UH has managed to take a proud athletics program and send it into the crapper over at least the last decade or so, here's yet another one:
Harass the few students who come to basketball games that are nearly empty anyway (3,500 fans officially last night, but it looked like 3,000 at best to me) because they *gasp* STAND AND GET WILD DURING THE GAMES.
It's hard to know exactly what happened here, but it does sound like Dave Maggard needs to make the standing policy clear to security personnel, and maybe send a few ushers over to the general area. This is the last sort of "problem" UH athletics should be having when too few people in Houston give a crap about it already.
(UPDATE): Callie tells me registration is required to get to the CoogFans link I posted. So you won't have to register, the gist of the discussion is: a student was ejected (unclear why -- officer said he used profanities, others contend he never curses; I've heard him be obnoxious, but I've never heard him use profanities), security repeatedly told the student section to sit down (students contend), students contend they were rudely treated when trying to explain to the security that they should be allowed to stand, some season ticketholder apparently was punk enough to complain about students standing. It's all just stupid and unnecessary when we need more fans and more enthusiasm over this job Tom Penders is doing with a team that won 16 games in two years under the last clown. I shot off an email to Dave Maggard that he needs to make sure students and security understand his Student Section policy (they can stand), and he needs to deploy ushers/security who understand the policy and can handle any misunderstandings a little better.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/17/05 14:33 | Sports | Technorati
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