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Houston’s Kelvin Sampson isn’t trying to hear any complaints from the Longhorns faithful about the “Horns Down” situation.
Speaking on Rodney Terry’s recent tirade following the UCF game, the Cougars head coach called out the hypocrisy of Texas getting upset about it while referring to the school’s fight song and pointing to the Sooners for starting the whole thing off.
Are you kidding me? University of Texas has ‘OU sucks’ in their fight song for God’s sake. I mean look at their fight song, it says: ‘OU sucks.’ … I think [Oklahoma] is the one that started the ‘Horns Down.’
Former OU basketball coach Kelvin Sampson gave his opinion on the “Horns Down” situation.
“University of Texas has ‘OU sucks’ in their fight song for God’s sake. I think OU is the one that started Horns down.” pic.twitter.com/Auvjrif410
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Sampson went on to add that UT should really take the gesture as a positive given all of the school’s success.
In an indirect way, the University of Texas should actually take it as a compliment. Because they have such a great athletic department and they’ve kind of been a department that’s defined by how much success that they’ve had in the past. But I know this… you’ve gotta be really, really good for people to hate you.
Sampson, of course, has first-hand knowledge of how intense things can get on that 94 feet from his days in Norman.
His No. 5 Houston squad heads to the Moody Center on Jan. 29 where they’ll take on the 13-5 Longhorns at 9 PM ET on ESPN.