Reposted from TU’s website:
Why is this agreement between TU and the City of Tulsa taking place?
The primary goal of the proposed TU and Gilcrease partnership is to consolidate management of the museum under a single entity in order to better preserve, enhance and strengthen the world class collection and legacy of Thomas Gilcrease. (more…)
It looks like I was one of the few to post on the Rice-TU game last weekend, so I’ve gotten quite a bit of traffic since from people looking for more on that story.
Well here it is.
The Associated Press published an article today about TU filing a complaint to NCAA over the MOB’s half-time show. Here’s the story in the Houston Chronicle.
For once, I’ve got to say that TU is wrong on this one. Having grown up in Texas and knowing a few students at Rice, I’ll tell you that this is just the way Rice is. And filing a complaint won’t do any good, the MOB uses the same strategy with every team they play and clearly it hasn’t bothered the NCAA.
And the students aren’t upset anyway. As one TU student told me, “you’d be more offended if they didn’t do it.” So chalk it up to the Mob choosing the obvious for the spirit of their half-time show.
I made the TU-Rice game today in Houston. The afternoon was miserably cold and dreary, but a surprising number of the determined alums made it in their blue and gold ponchos. It was a good game, but it was the half-time show that was the surprise. Rice’s band, the MOB, did a skit they called: Where the hell is Todd Graham? (Todd Graham is TU’s football coach, who last year was hired away from Rice who had hired him away from TU the year previous to tha). The band did a short number for each circle of hell as they searched for TG. Guess where he was? The 10th circle of hell, Tulsa. While there’s something about the MOB’s irreverency that tickles me, I found the sweatshirts most touching. The handful of Rice students in the stadium had made sweatshirts with “University of Tulsa” on the front and “We hire sellouts” on the back. I mean, real 100% cotton hoodies. Now that shows devotion. We would have been satisfied with T-shirts.
And for the curious, here’s the link to the script of the MOB’s half-time show.
Now if Rice wants to pick on TU, they could have picked something much easier, like say, TU’s truly meaningless chants. (Ex: Oo-saa-saa, Oo-saa-saa, get ‘em in the head with a big kilbassa! I don’t know what a kilbassa is, but it sounds very illegal.) As it is, Rice calling Tulsa “Hell” is the pot calling the kettle black; Houston merits that title on the strength of its roads alone.
