I wanted to start a thread publicly thanking a texas university for opening a new basketball arena in 2022.
For the youngins I wanted to share a brief bit of history about the haunted building that was the Frank Erwin Center. Did they use some kind of magic to curse the building against us in 1988? Do we hate the city of Austin so much that we just had bad vibes when we played there? Is it mostly due to our basketball history being terrible throughout the 90's and into the 2000's? WHO CAN SAY.
"The Drum" opened in November of 1977, with Texas winning the first two matchups in the new arena in '78 and '79. Then, the Aggies owned the place. Winning seven out of the next eight from 1980 to 1987.
But then it became an absolute house of horrors for us.
After winning at the Erwin Center in 1987, we only won there one other time and lost 24 times. Put another way, we have one win in Austin in the last 37 years.
Who was the lone coach to accomplish the feat? BCG? Turge? Maybe the rogue early BK team? It was not, they all went a combined 0-8. It was the legendary Melvin Watkins in 2002. Not quite yet at the height of his losing powers, the '02 Ags won three conference games, but two of them were road games (Iowa State.)
So here's to the Moody Center, a place that the Aggies have never lost a game!
For the youngins I wanted to share a brief bit of history about the haunted building that was the Frank Erwin Center. Did they use some kind of magic to curse the building against us in 1988? Do we hate the city of Austin so much that we just had bad vibes when we played there? Is it mostly due to our basketball history being terrible throughout the 90's and into the 2000's? WHO CAN SAY.
"The Drum" opened in November of 1977, with Texas winning the first two matchups in the new arena in '78 and '79. Then, the Aggies owned the place. Winning seven out of the next eight from 1980 to 1987.
But then it became an absolute house of horrors for us.
After winning at the Erwin Center in 1987, we only won there one other time and lost 24 times. Put another way, we have one win in Austin in the last 37 years.
Who was the lone coach to accomplish the feat? BCG? Turge? Maybe the rogue early BK team? It was not, they all went a combined 0-8. It was the legendary Melvin Watkins in 2002. Not quite yet at the height of his losing powers, the '02 Ags won three conference games, but two of them were road games (Iowa State.)
So here's to the Moody Center, a place that the Aggies have never lost a game!
