My plan would be to:
Build high rise apartments in the third ward. PE could stick its hands there. These apartments could be mainly targeted at undergraduates and graduate students.
Maybe build some bars too.
Throw in an HEB
Forget about building “affordable” housing. Won’t happen. I’d rather make that area feel like a mini college town.
Disagree heavily on this. This ain’t the 50’s anymore.
Then build more low income housing in Katy, in Sugarland, in Woodlands, so that people that get displaced from Third Ward can live there too and send their kids to good schools
instead of displacing them into already declining suburbs
Sorry for misunderstanding your post. I agree with you that right now we don’t have the fan base to really do what I said. But I disagree that the solution is to have Tilman dump money into NIL. I don’t think that’s how you build a stabile self sufficient program. I think it has to be done organically from the ground up. That’s how CKS did it in basketball and even though the landscape is a little different now, I think that model will work for us in football as well. Just gonna take some time to bring in talent and establish a culture. It’ll also take some effort from the hardcore fans to keep showing up to games even though we aren’t winning. Imo you have to build it organically if you want it to last.
Tell me you don’t know how the United States works, without understanding a single thing about how Capitalism works in the United States…regardless of Race or Ethnicity!
If they play their cards right, they can actually BENEFIT from the demand.
Guess what…those Dutch families that built wood structures were eventually displaced from the lower tip of Manhattan, as that land became more valuable and the land use changed.
In before the lock.
Indeed. Same happens in DFW area. Garland and Carrollton were hot. Then Plano (now slight decline in schools). Then Frisco. Now Prosper rising. Celina in infancy. The private schools thrive in the city. People get the value out of the public schools and then move to cheaper area when they retire to not pay for rising infrastructure costs.
CKS said he would not have come to UH if not for the promise of facility upgrades, that does not happen without Tillman. Now he has the best facilities, weight room, nutrition, practice and stadium in the country.
Wow man
Yes I know how capitalism works. I also understand that black people weren’t allowed to participate in capitalism for multiple generations due to historically legal racism
Most of you guys can’t even afford to live in third ward even if you wanted to, and yall are the loudest ones regarding advocacy of gentrifying the third ward
Yup. I can’t disagree with what you said. Only shot we have is Tilman’s ego getting so large that he just writes a blank check for whoever he wants to come here. The fan base is not going to be able to do it right now.
I do agree with what you said in the long run. But are we as a fan base, and I mean us on Coogfans (lol), going to be patient enough to let this organically happen?
And he’s gotta keep pushing for more and more. Complacency can set in. And it did for 30 years at UH. Can’t let it happen again.
Fair question Jo. And sadly the answer is probably that we don’t. But I just want to make it clear for the record that I’m all in on CWF. I think he will build this program up if we give him time.
I’m with you. I’m a fan of Fritz. But this NIL stuff in this day and age. I hope we are not handcuffing him. He’s a good coach. But he also has gotta have the players.
No reason to lock
This summer CWF said he wasn’t offering NIL to high schoolers. Maybe that’s changed with next years class.
This is a pretty arrogant statement.
And gentrification of the third ward will benefit our school
Tillman has pumped much more than $20MM. Some on here seem to just look at him as a cash machine. Most of us on here give as much as we can, but UH is not the only thing we have to spend our money on, we also have other obligations. I’m sure Tillman does as well.
We’re all cash machines. I’m just a quik mart atm that holds a few hundred and Tilman is the Bureau of Engraving & Printing in Ft Worth lol
Higher education is a commodity so most everyone who attends gets their education and move on. The percentage of engaged graduates, compared to the total alumni, is small, even at name brand universities.
What makes the difference is the administration and their ability to give students a positive experience that fosters a connection beyond graduation.
So, I say it’s on the administration to even compel the graduates to look in the mirror.
The Dempsey debacle is proof that the administration has a direct effect.
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