The people on this board on not the problem.
Tough to grow a fan base when a large portion of our students come from countries that play cricket and soccer.
UH lifts the flag about having the 2nd most diverse student body after NYU. But how many sports national titles does nyu have over the last 75 years.
Throw in that many of the students wanted to go elsewhere but could not afford to live away from home, and we get a fanbase of 20,000 faithful.
You would need s concert headliner to fill out the rest of the stadium it we are not 8-0 playing a Top 5 brand name team from the South while trying to win a spot in the conference championship game.
While I love the Big XII money and getting back some local rivals, the quality of the conference is not better than some of the years we were in the American or CUSA 1.0.
ESPN is stacking g the blue bloods, destroying the PAC, BIG XII, and waiting a couple years to rip out the top 4 teams from the ACC.
Without FSU, MIAMI, CLEMSON, UNC, the ACC is the PAC, MWC.
One ESPN has all the teams it wants, then they will go through a āfat-trimmingā excercise to get rid of the Vanderbilts, the Northwesterns, the Illinois, the Indianas, and every other team that leaches off the blue bloods. And it might work.
What ESPN forgets is that most people like to see the little guy overcome the odds to knock an Ohio State out of the playoff picture. ESPN WANTS that is someone knocks out Ohio State, that it is a Penn Stateā¦not Indiana. ( Indiana, as far as I can see gets no love, and maybe one national commercial where they are kind of the feature).
So donāt worry about attendance too much, if you are not a blue blood, you are going to eventually get excluded.
