{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2146", "2006-12-08", 109, 2, null, null, "UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON--CONFERENCE USA CHAMPS", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E2146", "E2146", "[{\"name\": \"Ted Poe\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "152 Cong. Rec. E2146", "Congressional Record, Volume 152 Issue 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2146]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n[[Page E2146]]\n              UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON--CONFERENCE USA CHAMPS\n\n                                 ______\n\n                              HON. TED POE\n\n                                of texas\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Thursday, December 7, 2006\n\n  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, today I recognize my alma mater, the University\nof Houston Cougars whose football team won the Conference USA\nChampionship on December 1, 2006 against Southern Mississippi in front\nof a hometown crowd of 31,818, the largest crowd in the history of UH's\nRobertson Stadium. After being down at halftime by a score of 17-13,\nthe Cougars rallied by to win by 34-20.\n  I am immensely proud of the Cougar football program, which in the\nspace of 5 years has turned itself completely around from a winless\nseason in 2001.\n  This lion's share of this tremendous success is attributed to Mr. Art\nBriles, the head coach of the Cougars--the brilliant architect of the\nturnaround. When Briles came to the Cougars in 2003, he found a team\nand school demoralized and devastated from years of mediocrity. A mere\nthree years later, due to his leadership, the Coogs are conference\nchamps and headed to the Liberty Bowl.\n  In football, statistics are misleading, because the game is above all\na team effort. It is hard to describe the contribution of an individual\nplayer to such an effort through their statistics, because one's\nperformance is mortally dependent on so many other variables--broadly\nspeaking, the performance of every other player on the team. Therefore,\nit could be said that the most important, perhaps only, statistic that\nmatters is that of wins and losses, which reflects the performance of\nthe team, not the individual player. This statistic is really the\ncoach's statistic--Mr. Briles is ultimately responsible for it. In this\nthe Cougars excelled, with a record of ten wins and only three losses.\n  In recognition of excellence in leadership and performance, on\nDecember 6, Briles won the Coach of the Year award from the Conference\nUSA--An award well-deserved.\n  Mr. Speaker, in football, extreme importance is paid to the position\nof the quarterback. In the realm of sports, the vitality of this\nposition is matched only by the pitcher in baseball.\n  Fortunately, UH had an excellent quarterback in Kevin Kolb. In the\nchampionship game, Kevin completed 19-for-31 passes for 258 yards and\ntwo touchdowns. He also rushed for a 46-yard touchdown. But this was\nthe continuation of an equally stellar season, in which Kevin completed\n266-for-393 passes for 3,423 yards. He threw a league-high 27\ntouchdowns with only three interceptions. This touchdown-to-\ninterception ratio was the second lowest in all of NCAAI-A football.\nFor these exceptional accomplishments, Kevin has deservedly won the C-\nUSA Offensive Player of the Year award.\n  I must also recognize Vincent Marshall, who was named the game's Most\nValuable Player. Vincent, a wide receiver, rushed for a touchdown and\nhad 224 all-purpose yards--100 receiving, 22 rushing, and 102 yards on\nthree kickoff returns. Also notable is the fact that Vincent has made a\nreception in 36 straight games, allowing him to be the Nation's top\nreturning career receiver. He is also just 31 catches, and 557 yards,\naway from holding the UH record in both categories.\n  Mr. Speaker, I commend Coach Briles, Kevin, Vincent, and the entire\nCougar football team for a superb season, a conference championship,\nand for making students of the University of Houston, past and present,\nproud to be a Cougar. I look forward to the Liberty Bowl, where the un-\ndaunted Cougars will face the Southeastern Conference South Carolina\nGameCocks. They will meet for the first time since October 5, 1974, but\nwhom the Cougars are 2-0 against. I look forward to a Cougar victory.\n  My pride goes to UH. ``Eat `em up, eat `em up; rah, rah, rah,'' Mr.\nSpeaker.\n  That's just the way it is.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2146"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 79.92335199378431, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}