Youâre mistaken, but this is a stupid discussion anyway. Trying to take an individual experience or decision and extrapolate it into âthis was a school of last resortâ requires a level of self-loathing thatâs just super-weird.
I knew and went to class with part-timers, long-timers, old-timers and a collection of âregularâ students that did the normal college thing. None of them came to UH because they had no other school choices. Choosing the best fit, regardless of the reasons, isnât anything like coming to UH for lack of any other options.
The fact that you got defensive when I pointed out how your generation didnât attend games in the SWC or send their kids to UH shows that I am right.
Your generation made it hard for my generation but we will succeed where yours failed.
SigEpCoog2005
(SHAUN - Bill Yeoman needs to be honored with a BOBBLEHEAD!)
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I have a neighbor that attended UH in the 70s and worked full time at UPS until he got promoted and quit college all together, he ran several companies before he retired. I had a co-worker that took a construction internship into a full time position 2 years before he graduated, had to really work his schedule to actually graduate, but he already had a full time job. Part of the problem of UH is some of our students get opportunities you donât get at other âtraditional schoolsâ, job opportunities.
What are you talking about? Look, we all want UH to have more 2nd, 3rd, and so on generation students. At the present, most students, I assume, are first generation. And thatâs fine. Hell, I am first generation myself. If I ever have a kid or two, you bet your a** Iâll strongly push them to attend UH.
In the 60s and 70s, there were a few crowds in the teens too, pre-PSL, but 30k and 40k crowds werenât all that rare. Attendance could have been better, yes but as an effort to increase it, a PSL was an extremely and shockingly stupid move. Yeoman came unglued, I heard.
SigEpCoog2005
(SHAUN - Bill Yeoman needs to be honored with a BOBBLEHEAD!)
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The old guy is pro-UH but anti-college as a whole, the other guy used to attend games with me when we worked together, until he moved to Colorado for work and I lost touch.
Sell them here. I do it when I canât make a game. Itâs easy to verify that the buyer is a genuine Coog. Then itâs just a matter of Venmo and transferring the tickets to the buyers cell phone. No StubHub nonsense and expense, no stealth pecker tech fans.
I donât care what generation you identify with, but youâre dodging around and flinging crap like a Tech fan since you got called out for characterizing UH as a school of last resort. So we can move on from that one.
Maybe someday youâll approach the level of support my classmates and I have given to the school and athletics, but at this point, youâre just yapping. Newer fans are fortunate to be reaping the benefits of the school finally supporting athletics and making investments in the future. I hope it pays off.
Whatever the case, what upside do you see in lobbing grenades at other UH fans? How is that supporting the school? Itâs pretty stupid.