When asked about his players being accused of faking heat cramps in order to slow UT momentum during a Longhorn drive, the LSU coach implied that the lack of A/C in the locker room didn’t help. He said that he called the prior week’s UT oppenent, La. Tech and asked what he should be aware of. Tech told him that UT had shut off the A/C to their locker room.

LSU said they brought some “blowers” to move air just in case. Sure enough, the A/C was shut off to the visitor’s locker room they said.

Texas weather has been in the 100 range.

UT issued a denial later.

So who’s lying? Guess UT pissed about loss.

This should CLEARLY explain what I think of UT...

This is so stupid. Are we seriously supposed to believe that one phone call couldn't have corrected this issue immediately? Texas just spent $7M renovating the locker room facilities. The A.C. is not broken. If it was off, that should have been easy to determine and fix. BTW, the heat index in Baton Rouge was higher at game time than it was in Austin yet one team somehow wasn't acclimated to the heat

LSU, the better team on this day, won - fact

Both defenses sucked - fact

The rest is just stupid noise.

There's a reason why a pool needs to be within a certain temp range; teams have been known to raise the temp of their pool, acclimate to the warmer water, and gain an unfair advantage over their opponents. This is the same concept, only in reverse.

Of course, rubbin's racin' and if it's not against the rules...

Not sure about the AC, but word has it LSU band got nosebleed seats in Austin. LSU will be returning the favor when the Longhorns play in Baton Rouge next year.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
This should CLEARLY explain what I think of UT...

I couldn’t agree more!
GIG EM!

Don't underestimate the low blows that can come out of Austin.

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Originally posted by armadill0:
Don't underestimate the low blows that can come out of Austin.

Or the lies out of LSU -- remember the comments after the 7OT game.

Screw both of them.

--k

Home teams used to monkey fuck around with the opposing team's communications too. Then, they put the rule in place that if the visitors headsets went out the home team had to take off theirs.

I bet a locker room HVAC regulation would fix it PDQ if the hometeam (e.g. UT's prima donnas) had to go without AC too.

I recall a story sometime back of painting the lockers HOT PINK in the visiting locker room.

I can only add to the comments of erj_pilot, and smisig:

WHOOP!

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I recall a story sometime back of painting the lockers HOT PINK in the visiting locker room.

That would be UIowa during the Hayden Fry era!

^^
I knew someone would know.

Good ol Mike Leach opines on the worst locker room

Link

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I recall a story sometime back of painting the lockers HOT PINK in the visiting locker room.

It wasn’t hot pink. It was a very soft and relaxing pink and it just wasn’t the lockers, it was the wall, toilets, everything was pink.

Visiting teams locker rooms have always been...less than stellar. The locker rooms at Cal's (Berkeley) Memorial Stadium, prior to the renovation, was quite literally 500 sq ft, three toilets and four showers. With the players all suited up, many of them had to linger right out side the door way before heading out to the field, but not before taking three flights of stairs.

Im sure UT updated the visiting locker room, and installed AC...doesn't mean the AC flowed correctly

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Originally posted by smlsig:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
This should CLEARLY explain what I think of UT...

I couldn’t agree more!
GIG EM!

Are you aware that A&M and UT are no longer in the same conference? Kind of hard to have a rivalry when you don't play each other anymore.

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by smlsig:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
This should CLEARLY explain what I think of UT...

I couldn’t agree more!
GIG EM!

Are you aware that A&M and UT are no longer in the same conference? Kind of hard to have a rivalry when you don't play each other anymore.

You CANNOT be serious with that comment.

Gig Em!

Hehe, all's fair in .... {as the saying goes}....

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Originally posted by iron chef:
Are you aware that A&M and UT are no longer in the same conference? Kind of hard to have a rivalry when you don't play each other anymore.