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Originally Posted by Dawgpix
And football competition, if you look at the rankings this year. Breaking it down for you, the AAC couldn't hold a candle to CUSA this year. Basketball may be a different story, but only because you have a couple of teams carrying you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cougar King
What are you, 14 years old? I'm sure the parents of special needs children don't appreciate the descriptive language you used to take an insecure shot at me. What's coming next from you, the "N" word?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cougar King
Could you possibly be any more of a neanderthal?
The AAC is a joke. I honestly didn't hear anything about the AAC this past football season, other than the previously mentioned stuff about SMU's very poor program. CUSA is just flat out better. And it ain't even close!!
the U of H campus (Cougar High) and area around it is absolutely terrible. The school is a has been that folks will start avoiding unless they do something quick to improve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
A city that prides itself on an absolute lack of zoning has disinvested neighborhoods?Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
What? People don't avoid UH to the tune of about 40,000 students on that campus. And it's not the only game in town. There are Rice, Texas Southern, HBU, St. Thomas, and HCC which has the largest enrollment. They also have a brand new stadium which puts the Joe to shame. It is also a Tier 1 Research University (like Tech). It's just in a urban environment which doesn't attract all types. In case you didn't know it also has separate degree granting campuses in Clear Lake (technically Houston) and Victoria with a new campus in Sugar Land. UH offers programs the state legislature will never allow Tech to offer because they belong exclusively to LSU (most notably Law). UH could probably get a medical school if it wanted, but there are already three in the Houston-Galveston area.Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
I think Tech is a better school in the programs we offer. I attended both, and UH was too typical of the giant impersonal corporate type university, but it certainly is no has been.
And in a ghetto type area. No thanks. But glad you had the chance. I did attend some grad school at U of H at Clear Lake (UHCL) which is gorgeous in comparison to the main U of H campus and surroundings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
When the ex- got her doctorate there I had to spend the significant time on weekends in that part of town.
Lots of endowment there, but like TT says, on an island in the ghetto.
I have found that a lot of big universities in urban areas are in or near ghettos. However, I used to live just across the street from UH in a niche neigborhood called University Oaks. I guess TT and DP would consider that part of the "island". There is a street called Wheeler that runs on that side of the campus and goes toward downtow, but dead ends at Texas Southern Univer and picks up on the other side. When it reaches South Main it changes its name to Richmond Ave and that continues all the way out to the far west side of Houston. The old Third Ward is what TT and DP call the ghetto area. It's mainly along and either side of Scott Street on the north side of UH. South Side are the RR tracks and what used to be Port City Stock Yards Braes Bayou runs behind University Oaks and that used to be the Jewish River Oaks - yes they actually wouldn't let Jewish people live in River Oaks. The whole area certainly isn't like the Projects in NO, and you wouldn't feel insecure driving through. Scott looks a little rough, but I used to have to go to the Pop Eye's Chicken over there and not think anything of it. there have gotten to be areas much rougher in other parts of Houston.
That's just like a cougar fan, make yourself seem superior by calling somebody a name that refers to someone born with a disability. Take your ass somewhere else, if that's the best you can do. Nobody gives a shit about you here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cougar King
Good for the urban renewal. I did mention my comments were tainted when I used the word "ex-.:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
Not every where around UH is that bad - my son attended the university while he was working at the sports radio station part time and leased a condo from Carl Landry - one of the former Rockets. The place was in a great complex, was damn nice & well appointed and only about 1-1/2 mile from the center of campus. My son rode his bike every day to class and felt perfectly safe!
The whole area around downtown Houston is changing or what we call 'inside the loop'. Even my wife & i built a house in an area called The Heights two years ago, where 5 years ago you wouldn't drive in that area at night! The demographics are changing and the home prices are going up!!!!
I agree with these comments. I lived in Houston for 5 years many years ago. Plus I've had to regularly travel on business there the last 25 years from Tyler. Some parts have really improved with others.....not at all and in fact are now close to ghetto type living conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgFaninHous
Agree TT that some areas have gone down in the 38 years I've been here in Houston area. Especially the Fondren SW area and around the old Sharpstown area. Both of those are suburban environments, though, not inner city. I live a little further out now in Missouri City in Ft. Bend County, but when I first moved out here there was a sign on old South Main that said Houston 16 miles and that was through the medical center to down town, so I'm not really that far out.
I travel to Houston often. I, actually, like the city a lot. You won't find me in the upscale areas (except for meetings and I stay at the Galleria). I hang out in the old parts of town that have character, though. There are some areas (as in any city) that are not safe, but give me the old parts of town vs. suburbs any day.