unless you want raider rash!
What?
I didnât go to UH with a single person who was there because they had no other options. Thatâs never been a thing.
If that were true, then why did so many people from your generation and before often mention that they came to UH because they were non-traditional students and needed a local option?
UH gained its commuter school reputation from people who were either older and taking part-time classes, kids living at home and people who couldnât get in anywhere else.
Choosing to go to school in a ânon-traditionalâ manner doesnât mean there were no other options or that the school was otherwise undesirable. Youâre really just buying into some stupid propaganda.
Your generation ,(as a whole) failed to adequately support UH in the SWC days.
The Astrodome was the most state of the art facility on the planet and you guys couldnât be bothered to break 25k except for Whorn or Aggy. This was in spite of having a Heisman winning QB.
You guys failed to support the basketball program after Phi Slamma Jamma.
Your generation and the previous generation (Again as a whole) failed the provide adequate alumni support the same way Whorn, Aggy and even Tech did.
The academic profile of the school barely raised in the 80s and especially the 90s until Khator came along.
Many of your fellow classmates discouraged their children from attending UH.
If the previous gens had adequately built up UH and supported it, then those 30 years of exile after the SWC broke up doesnât happen.
they probably got bored after the start of the 3rd.
None of this relates to your claim that UH was some school of last resort. You can sling mud you want, but it just isnât true.
Newer generations of UH fans havenât carried the water as far as financial or attendance support, either, but thatâs a different discussion altogether.
Just wear red, dammit!! Then the whole stadium is red and Tech cant say anythingâŠWearing blue just give them the chance to say every red shirt in the crowd was a Tech fanâŠSTUPIDâŠNo excuseâŠbad marketingâŠ
I would say it differently. It wasnât that UH was the âlastâ option for many students, but rather UH was the âbestâ option. Iâm referring to students that were first generation college students, had to work their way through school, were older, or already married. My own circumstances dictated that I attend college in Houston. When I was in school in the early 90s many of my classmates had attended A&M or other schools and then transferred to UH. This was primarily at the school of business. In the music school most of those students were on scholarship.
UH has always been billed as a school that provides opportunities to everyone. Call it commuter if you want, but for me it is a school âof the people.â God was good to me with my UH degree. I had many Aggies, Longhorns, and Owls reporting to me. A UH education is as good as any so-called âtraditionalâ school.
Is this guy another UH1927/Cullen? Lol. Sad.
Donât insult me like that
AMEN to that. And, yes Iâve worked with folks from Harvard, Stanford, Wharton (Penn), Rice, UT, etc. and none seemed any brighter or better.
The interesting thing is that some of the folks from UT felt the need to remind me that they had attended UT, while I never heard that from the alumni of other schools.
You would never call me cringe to my face. Youâre welcome to do so at the next home game if you want.
So much cringe.
Thatâs what I thought.
lol
I donât think so maybe 1/3.
Thatâs sad for you, that your circle was that small. I have known a few of those but absolutely went with people who came because they wanted to (like I did ). Both when I started out of high school and when I returned later in life to finish my degree.