(08-05-2022 08:20 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(08-04-2022 06:37 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  But if we grass over the south end zone too, how can a missed FG bounce over the wall into the front row? physics...it would be dependent on the force vectors, the launch angle and the ball impact site in front of the wall. Definitely possible. Also, it would be possible for a FG attempt to not miss and still land on the grassy area. It just wouldn't bounce over the wall into the front row.

lol

We don't want more of those....

and if they grass it, you could still be there.... In fact, you could slide down the hill on a wet day and catch the ball

That would be one pretty bad miss. And, a significant risk of lower leg injury by sliding into the retaining wall. Since I am relegated to just medicine, sliding down a wet surface with a low coefficient of friction combined with an accelerating force vector into a rigid concrete wall is not a safe practice. With that said, it would be fun to do and could be a great recruiting test. Anyone who can catch a football while sliding down a wet incline will have shown an innate ability to time multiple factors.

(08-05-2022 09:51 AM)ruowls Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 08:20 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(08-04-2022 06:37 PM)Seventyniner Wrote:  But if we grass over the south end zone too, how can a missed FG bounce over the wall into the front row? physics...it would be dependent on the force vectors, the launch angle and the ball impact site in front of the wall. Definitely possible. Also, it would be possible for a FG attempt to not miss and still land on the grassy area. It just wouldn't bounce over the wall into the front row.

lol

We don't want more of those....

and if they grass it, you could still be there.... In fact, you could slide down the hill on a wet day and catch the ball

That would be one pretty bad miss. And, a significant risk of lower leg injury by sliding into the retaining wall. Since I am relegated to just medicine, sliding down a wet surface with a low coefficient of friction combined with an accelerating force vector into a rigid concrete wall is not a safe practice. With that said, it would be fun to do and could be a great recruiting test. Anyone who can catch a football while sliding down a wet incline will have shown an innate ability to time multiple factors.

You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:

1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:
1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Chuck could have done it for any number of teams, but he was dead before the USFL Houston Gamblers came into existence.

(08-05-2022 12:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:
1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Chuck could have done it for any number of teams, but he was dead before the USFL Houston Gamblers came into existence.

It was one of those alternative league Houston teams.

Edit: Maybe it was 1974 Houston Texans of the World Football league.

(08-05-2022 12:42 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 12:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:
1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Chuck could have done it for any number of teams, but he was dead before the USFL Houston Gamblers came into existence.

It was one of those alternative league Houston teams.

Edit: Maybe it was 1974 Houston Texans of the World Football league.

Yep. Looks like Chuck's name appears in the punting stats for the 1974 Houston Texans.

https://wflfootball.tripod.com/1974/houshrstats.html

(08-05-2022 01:00 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 12:42 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 12:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:
1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Chuck could have done it for any number of teams, but he was dead before the USFL Houston Gamblers came into existence.

It was one of those alternative league Houston teams.

Edit: Maybe it was 1974 Houston Texans of the World Football league.

Yep. Looks like Chuck's name appears in the punting stats for the 1974 Houston Texans.

https://wflfootball.tripod.com/1974/houshrstats.html

Thanks. The triple position reference came from a newspaper article - that's why I remember it so vividly.

Chuck, I believe, was a HS (Parade) all-american, one of two in that recruiting class.

(08-05-2022 01:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette ...

Chuck, I believe, was a HS (Parade) all-american, one of two in that recruiting class.

I don't find any evidence for that. No articles I found mentions Chuck being a high-school All-American.

He graduated from Rice in 1967 (https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...llowed=y), so his last high school football season would have been in fall 1962.

The first Parade Magazine All-American team, however, was announced the next year, in December 1963, when Chuck was already a Rice freshman.



FYI, here's the second Parade AA team, published in December 1964. The first team included Calvin Hill & Chris Gilbert.

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:

1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Well, IMO, RU could add to that list...

1. WR
2. Holder
3. Team Doctor
4. Coach

(08-05-2022 02:00 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette, who played three positions for the USFL Houston Gamblers:

1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team doctor

Well, IMO, RU could add to that list...

1. WR
2. Holder
3. Team Doctor
4. Coach

That's good, but don't tell you-know-who.

I will counter with this list for Chuck:

1. Punter
2. Safety
3. Team Doctor
4. Punt returner.

From his wiki page: "On September 29, 1968, Latourette set the NFL record for punt return average in a single game against the New Orleans Saints."

Chuck was a guest speaker at our EBHS football banquet my senior year. I already had a Rice app pending and I was so impressed with him, I can remember. Chatted with him a bit at the time. What a strange ending he met. Extraordinary person.

Didn't get a picture, but they were hammering out the remaining old chair back seats on the west side today. 16 lb sledge wailing away.

SE men’s room, before and after concrete pour

(08-06-2022 01:56 AM)Grungy Wrote:  SE men’s room, before and after concrete pour

The renovation of these restrooms appears to have started after the July 4th weekend. My first pictures are from 5 July.
We're one month into the project, and they'll probably start assembly next week, after the concrete is cured enough.

They haven't started on the northeast restrooms.





Day game / night game isn't going to matter.
These are very unlikely to be renovated by the 10 September opening date.

(08-05-2022 01:44 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 01:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 10:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  You remind my of my friend Chuck Latourette ...

Chuck, I believe, was a HS (Parade) all-american, one of two in that recruiting class.

I don't find any evidence for that. No articles I found mentions Chuck being a high-school All-American.

He graduated from Rice in 1967 (https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/h...llowed=y), so his last high school football season would have been in fall 1962.

The first Parade Magazine All-American team, however, was announced the next year, in December 1963, when Chuck was already a Rice freshman.



FYI, here's the second Parade AA team, published in December 1964. The first team included Calvin Hill & Chris Gilbert.

Knew I depend on the Rice crew to check everything out.

Chuck and I both not only freshmen in that class, but also next door neighbors in our college. Several other freshmen and sophomore footballers were on our floor that year, including one name I still hear mentioned here from time to time. As freshmen, we had several classes together and sometimes studied together. He studied more than I did.

In discussions around the college and the University, it was often said that we had two HS all-Americans in that freshman class, Chuck and Rick Robinson. At that time I didn’t know there was such as thing as a HS AA, and later assumed it was Parade.

Regardless of his HS accolades, Chuck was a high quality person who had a high achievement life. I was privileged to have known him.

And, returning to the genesis of this discussion,I think RU is another such.

(08-06-2022 10:08 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Regardless of his HS accolades, Chuck was a high quality person who had a high achievement life. I was privileged to have known him.
And, returning to the genesis of this discussion,I think RU is another such.

I do hope and sincerely believe that RU will not meet anything like the end that Chuck did.

(08-06-2022 10:11 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-06-2022 10:08 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Regardless of his HS accolades, Chuck was a high quality person who had a high achievement life. I was privileged to have known him.
And, returning to the genesis of this discussion,I think RU is another such.

I do hope and sincerely believe that RU will not meet anything like the end that Chuck did.

I hope nobody does, ever.

How did it end for Chuck?

(08-06-2022 02:53 PM)Ourland Wrote:  How did it end for Chuck?

Chuck

(08-06-2022 02:53 PM)Ourland Wrote:  How did it end for Chuck?

hyperacute cerebral plumbum exposure

(08-06-2022 03:04 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2022 02:53 PM)Ourland Wrote:  How did it end for Chuck?

Chuck

Damn. She was pissed.