Blaming the attendance for the lost is just silly. We could have played in a empty stadium and still lost the game.
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I donât think anyone is blaming the loss on attendance.
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We have had some great teams but I agree the â79 bunch was probably the best followed by the â73 and â69 squads
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The question is do the players have a let down seeing so many visitors at a home game. I assume each player is different. I would hope it wouldnât get to our guys but i can see how it would be very inspiring to the BYU players.
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Iâm sure it does to an extent. I do know mine isnât going to like playing in an empty stadium at Navy. Crowds are what fuels them, especially their fans at home.
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Iâm of the opinion that it was flagrantly irresponsible of the school to be selling tickets in the first place, so Iâm not going to cast aspersions on anyone that chooses to stay home. The less attendance this year the better in my book.
Yeah, this season is the wrong season to be complaining about attendance. Itâs not even something I am tracking this fall.
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UH has a very front-runner fan base. I know this from the comments I hear in the stands at home games. Very quick to give up on the team when things arenât going well. Itâs a shame but is what it is.
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If only Houston cougar football was a religion
I was at the game, although due to my age and health I should have been at home watching it on TV; and so I canât say that UH selling tickets this year was âflagrantly irresponsibleâ (or even just ordinarily irresponsible). - But, as far as crowd size is concerned, UH botched this season badly. Not only did that give season ticket buyer âpermissionâ to not attend without any risk of losing their personal seat licenses, but they initially announced that no single game tickets would be sold (before subsequently softly saying otherwise). And then there are all of the new social distancing rules, which seriously diminish the social interaction part of attending any live sporting event.
As far as BYUâs turnout is concerned - good for them. Wichita State does the same thing for basketball. Itâs an anomaly, but itâs not like they were uber-entitled UT fans or delusional Aggies.
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So about 25 of us from our organization showed up to the Football game. Thatâs a record, compared to back when it was me and another person or two in 2018. Our group has roughly 200 members that include students and young alums.
Weâre still really pissed about the fact that they wanted to assign seats for the STUDENT SECTION. I bought my season ticket more as of a donation to UH Athletics, so my seat is fine, I like that. But naturally I sat in the student section, and I looked up and lo and behold BYU fans took my seat.
I was in another section, so I didnât care. I support taking an open seat if nobody is sitting there, so good for them a better view. What I did care about, was that security was trying to enforce the students to go sit in their own seats and not as groups (even if relatively distanced) in the student section.
If you took out all the fans, then grouped every loyal student coogfan together, those BYU fans would have dookied their pants with how wild students can get. I went to UH vs Navy in 2015 and was instantly attracted to the student section (back when I was in HS).
Separating the students takes away the point of students going to the game. Itâs a social thing for students, and all the rowdy students together makes for a heck of an experience. BYU fans were loud and its like they owned the place.
Attendance wasnât the sole reason we lost last night. There were several factors. But people showing up and being supportive, staying until the end of the game, and out-fanning the BYU fans could have passed on some good energy or so.
If anyone from UH Athletics is reading this please stop with the assigned seats in the student section. No student will follow that. Just COVID Test them the week of the game on your dime, and make the section GA. Youâll have people show up and be rowdy mfn cougars.
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Giena is making a point that needs to be reinforced every chance we get. When you are on the field and the stadium is full. You feel like you are on a âdifferentâ planet. The crowdâs power is in you and your adrenaline goes even higher. You literarely feel like you are invincibleâŠthen you get hit. It is a huge advantage. When you have no crowd around you this is obviously different.
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Agree 100%. Definitely different rules last night for BYU. And kudos to them, they took advantage and used it to be a factor in the game. We would have done the same thing if circumstances were reversed with us as visitorsâŠsay in Austin or the like.
If you donât believe the crowd matters to the players⊠go to a BB game at the FC.
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For sure.
The BYU fans were respectful to me from what I noticed. As much as I hated the loss, I loved the game.
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Actually I lot of us posters from the SWC era who remember playing Big12 teams as conference mates hate being in a lower tuer conference. Love our conference mates but SMU is the only one I can truly relate to from the SWC years.
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That would have been a good way to lose fans. Even NFL teams didnât do that.
I agree with FWCoog with COVID-19 U of H had to provide options to our season ticket holders. Wife and I opted in for our season tickets, but we are not attending games. We are giving them to my main tailgate buddy who is bringing 2 of his friends to the games. I am 66 and just donât want to roll the dice on being in crowds.
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Like several others, at our age we were hesitant to buy tickets this year. We ended up with only two tickets (the wives and grandkids/guests tickets arenât bought)and weâre not sure weâll go as Covid gets worse. We already face exposure (brother works in a hospital and Iâm on public school campuses for UH COE). I fully expected lots of BYU fans. We had a BYU dad and young son two rows behind us. They were from Dallas. The dad stated he couldnât afford to take his son to a home game in Provo so this was a golden opportunity for the two of them to see a BYU game. They drove down Friday and weâre staying with friends Friday night before driving back. We have to remember that Houston has a huge number of alums from lots of schools who donât get to go or who canât afford frequent trips to see their teams. No difference from what Iâve heard or seen at Texans, Astros, or Rockets games. I do believe we continue to sometimes shoot ourselves in our own foot when it comes to marketing but winning has always made an impact in our attendance over my 50 yeas a Coog! The big difference in the SWC days was we worked, played, and our neighbors were the other SWC alum.
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I am not blaming the loss on attendance. I do think that good enthusiastic attendance helps lift the teamâs spirit, Iâve seen it all my football attending life which started 70+ years ago, so I speak from experience. (The first football game I remember was at LSU and I was only 3, but it was exciting)
What I am saying is that our teams deserve better from people who call themselves fans. Poor attendance relfects badly on our university.
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