Expand Tdecu per that one person on here saying that they don’t want the smallest stadium in the big 12!!
As of today, we can still win the conference and secure that Big 12 auto bid.
Losing to UNLV & OU does count against us, at all.
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Will you stop we are not going to win the Big 12 this season my god, we are in a rebuild with a patchwork offensive line and a seemingly wounded QB trying to get back from labrum surgery
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Serious question, did you think we had a legitimate shot to beat OU?
If we grind out wins, we can surprise people in the Big 12…it’s not that tough of a conference to win.
We just need to focus on being 1-0 this week!
I’m not buying that Rebuild BS- we need to try to win every game in front of us.
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I don’t think OU is all that great this year we will see, I just like seeing improvement every week, I believe in Fritz, but even if we beat Cincinnati I still don’t think we have a legitimate shot, have u looked at our schedule, we have a four week stretch that is ridiculous
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We can win this season with this dedense… we should be in a bowl game imo.
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That’s my hope…6 wins is the floor and if luck goes our way, we can be in contention for the Conference Championship.
This is NOT the SEC, the Big 12 has ONE fringe program that is just on the outside of the top 10 in Utah…maybe 2 in KSU but let’s see how the season plays out.
By Comparison, the SEC ACTUALLY has SIX schools inside the Top Ten…not outside of the top 10.
Many here seems to think we play in the SEC… we do not.
Yes, we play in a conference tougher than the AAC but there were many years when we had 3,4, 5 ranked AAC schools in the polls at the same time but NEVER did we have 60% of the top 10 schools, like the SEC.
We need to focus on finding a way, any way, to win the game in front of us.
This REBUILDING narrative is a loser mentality…play competitive football and the improvements / success will find you!
SEC - scoff, scoff, scoff!!
Overrated as usual. Georgia is nothing special this year. The whorns beat an average at best Michigan team, a poor UTSA team, and a Colorado State team that got blown out at home by a mediocre Colorado team. Alabama is still untested, and LSU has already lost a game to a USC team that may be pretty good. I don’t think you will see seven SEC teams in the top 20 by seasons end. I will believe it when I see it.
Oh for sure, but I mean we probably won’t have any chance of being ranked unless we win out all the way through Utah
AP Rankings don’t matter for a CFP auto bid, but the losses to OU/UNLV only pushes us further down the totem pole in the AP
Just take one game at a time and see how it shakes out. The odds against us winning the B12 are very high, but this is college football and stranger things have happened. It’s too early to throw in the towel.
Somehow, we got off track from the attendance topic (what a surprise) and wandered off into facilities. I have my own opinion of why our attendance has been below par.
The attendance support for years came from a core group of middle aged to older diehard fans. I am representative of that group being 77 years old and having had season tickets for football since 1976 and basketball since 1980. I may have missed a dozen home football games and a few more home basketball games over that span because of out of town work assignments or illness.
But we are an aging group and need to be replaced by new graduates every year. Unfortunately, the students in most of those years were not that engaged. The Dimmel and Helton years were dismal at best and the Levine years weren’t much better. We had a rise in the Herman years, but a decline since. However, the student section has grown over the last few years and this year has been impressive. Once these kids have graduated, it will probably take a few years for many them to re-engage due to getting careers started, new families and the like. But a few will engage as soon as they graduate.
We are on a gradual path to creating a sustainable core group larger than before. As it says on our seal and on my ring, “In Time.”
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Yeah, the years between Pardee/Jenkins and Art Briles were a complete loss. It seemed like the administration didn’t care much and the fans/students followed that lead.
The student section this year is a great sign. If we could manage 4 or 5 winning seasons in a row, I think our growth trajectory would be in good shape.
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Student section under Sumlin was great as well…
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It sure was when I was here.
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Well what happened to all of them how come our alumni don’t support the program
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They do… that was the end of the Keenum era… Gameday, etc.
Many people from that era got hooked on UH Football…
They used to go to the alumni tailgates at the pavilion… where’s that pavilion now…?
Even the Rice message board said their perfornance at UH sucked
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Considering I went to UH during the Keenum and Sumlin years, most of my tailgate friends and classmates are either raising families, moved away from Houston, or moved back to where they grew up in whether it be Dallas, San Antonio, Austin etc.
Millennials are also known to be fickle and won’t support a bad team.
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Throw in the basketball program too. 90’s… abysmal… 2000’s abysmal
Going to hand it to them. That was probably the best crowd rice has ever brought to our campus. If you can believe this, rice admin has actually discouraged their fans and students from attending any events on our campus in the past.
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