There are 17 Thursday night games that week, most are not televised, so their logic is not crazy, but we are in Houston with Houston traffic, it’s going to take me an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the stadium. I would not be shocked if we have 15k people at the game. Anybody need tickets?
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2026 is projected to have the #1 class in the B12 and the history of UH football, with the #1 rated QB. What else do you want? Granted ratings have changed since Yeoman, but still the program looks good, no reason for a drop in Cougar Pride.
Allow? Is there a restriction on tickets to one account? From 25 at our peak to 12, or less, it won’t be long before they won’t be getting any ticket sales from me.
I am preparing myself mentally to be a part of a small crowd to UH’s home opener. Worst of all, the televised optics of a small crowd for a home opener looks minor league
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But ESPN+ games can be scheduled at any time - not really a “space” issue.
Regardless of the AD’s reasoning was for making the decision, it isn’t going to look good, and a Saturday game would definitely have had a better crowd, regardless of ESPN+ or whatever.
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That is true. What I meant to say is that, ESPN, probably told us that they do not have a time slot available on ESPN, ESPN2, or hell, even ESPNU, for our game. I still would have pushed for a Saturday game rather than a Thursday game if I was the AD.
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We will see you there!
Agree that in most cases an increase in one place will be a reduction in another such as scholarship funds. I would be curious to see numbers for athletic donations in general then see how academic side is affected of athletic capital improvements are affected over the long term.
I think there will be less in the way of new stadiums and support facilities for athletes with donations going to player payroll. Not sure about academic side. Someone needs to do an indepth study in 10 years.
A good example by tcoog on how adding to donations take from somewhere:
“All it took for me to donate a bit more is not getting tickets to the UH allotment for a tournament game.”
What is the point to donating anymore at this point? I paid tuition. Paid again for my masters. Paying for my doctorate. Lots of students leaving with 50k plus in debt (they are responsible for it), and we expect them to pay more for what exactly? What does a young alumni get for donating? Ostracized alumni that see kids making more than them are probably not donating. If the school can pay the athletes 16 million a year, that is probably leaving some alumni rethinking. I donate annually to college of education and am a member of the alumni association. Used to pay for CP for the tickets, but as time has gone on it just was not a wise investment anymore.
I would be surprised to see any of the mid tier p4 schools like us gaining huge traction and growth in this department. The flagship blue bloods have cults. We don’t.
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I tried to buy out the rest of my row to my right side for football in 2023 and the ticket office said no way lol.
Hey all - This is Jeff Mason with the Cougar Pride team. If you missed it initially, I introduced myself in another thread on the board.
I want to start with this: My email address is jwmason2 at uh dot edu and I’m always open to feedback. That’s what I’m here for.
Like other state institutions, UH is in the final stretch of the fiscal year. We are September 1st to August 31st. Once the fiscal year is closed out (plus a few more days for postmarked checks and whatnot), we’ll get our final numbers together. I haven’t started pulling reports yet so I have no idea what historical CP membership is versus where we’re at today. What I can tell you is that we’re undoubtedly increasing dollars in the door year over year. We’ll see how the final number shakes out but as Eddie Nunez shared on his weekend appearance, the total dollar amount is increasing and will continue to do so.
One of the core components to my position is increasing membership in Cougar Pride (alongside dollars) and we’ll introduce some new ways for the Cougar faithful to give to UH. The membership model fits some while giving with tax relief in mind works for others. I prefer my Cougar Pride membership to be paid out across the year while you may prefer one credit card swipe. It’s my job to provide different avenues for our fanbase to give to Houston Athletics and I’ll be working to maximize what we’re currently doing while also giving you some new options.
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You must be one of them foreigners, Ian.
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Foreigner here checking in. Been on the forum for 10 years thanks for the shout out.
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We have 8 for FB and 6 for BB (I spun my two for BB off from the group, don’t recall why). The only benefits we have seen is holder of the group gets to go to preseason gatherings and bring 1 guest. The other 6 of us get to stay home and read about it on DFs. I guess 2 out of 8 is better than 0 out of 8. The only benefit I have received is, because we have 14 total tickets with donations, we managed to snag Bob Uecker tickets for Big 12 BB Tourney in KC, and same seats for 5 games in indy, back during covid.
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For real??? Idiots. Athletics office, not you.
You probably qualify for the ticket allocation for all of the tournament games.
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I think it was the previous sales team from our first year in the Big 12 but I never tried again.
UH’s new mission statement: The University of Houston draws strength from its cultural richness to transform lives and communities through education, research, service and innovation in a real world setting. UH is an engine for discovery, conversation and change that informs and leads local, state, national and global partnerships.
Anyway, and I’ll repeat this from my years of experience running a spirit org plus other years showing up to Football games when I’m not backed up in a lab: there’s more diversity in our student section than you’d see anywhere else. Students of all walks of life do care and take advantage of the sports scene. It’s been growing. Come on y’all.
There’s also a difference between donating to Cougar Pride and to the University itself. People will drop their money in certain buckets. I know where I’d be putting mine if I struck rich, and trust me, as of right now, it isn’t athletics.
I’ll also quote CKS in another statement since I posted his video earlier. “We’re having to learn how to be a Big 12 school. This is not my second year in the Big 12; this is my 14th year in the Big 12. We’re still not a Big 12 school. We’re a long way away from being a Big 12 school. We’ve got Big 12 players, obviously, but that’s about it.”
He and the AD (SEC) are probably the ones that really know what has to be done around campus to make it a Big 12 SCHOOL. Not just athletics. By extension, the Provost, Dr. Chase might have a lot to do with it as well. She was at UCF from 1985-2016, just before their stupid crazy run in Football. However, a few months after her arrival, Cub Camp was cancelled (I have no idea if the Provost office is to blame, but that’s where it was thrown).
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Say a group of 10 purchase tickets and the CP donation is $100 per ticket. Name holder of group donates $1000. Break the group up into 10 individuals. Each individual pays $100 per ticket. Total donation $1000. I don’t see where the CP gets more money from 10 individuals than it does from the group of 10. Next we end with no incentive for group members to travel to games as a group. so we make traffic and parking more of a problem. I must be confused with the benefits of more individual members to CP.
We could relocate UH to El Campo, Texas. They already have palm trees . . . . . Seems this would solve the problems of traffic and the desire to have palm trees and put us in a small town location.
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