Prices go up. Some ticket holders bail. Fans that want season tickets now have the opportunity. Net zero ? ? ? ? ? Now no waiting list. No need to make major modifications . . . . . Problem solved. Also, no guarantee that this success story will continue unabated for an extended period. Sh*t happens and we are back to empty seats again . . . . . Hopefully not, but it could happen . . . . .
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Well, the Big12 just became the best basketball conference in NCAA. Now, I wonder if UH is regretting not designing Feritta to sit around 10,000. Every game will be a fight in this conference and must see basketball. UH did not plan for the long term for when we finally got into the P5 which always the mission. Many more seats and tickets could be sold for UH in the New Big12, but unlike with TDECU, the administration did not build Fertita Center with room for expansion which was a mistake. The same AD who decided UH should reduce compacity is now at Baylor and did the same thing. UH and Baylor will have the smallest arenas in the Big12 which will be a draw and best basketball conference.
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I believe TCUâs is the smallest, but I agree.
We should have planned for expansion.
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weâll play a season in the Toyota Center while they pry the top off the Fertitta Center and add an upper deck
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When The Dream saw the renderings of Fertitta Center and said too small. UH should of listened to the UH Legend.
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I understand why FC was smallish when it was built but I never understood Baylor decision to go same capacity as ours. They had a great bkb program going already.
Thats right, take a shitt in the urinal and maintain eye contact with the whole restroom.
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Yeah, if we continue to go 15-3 in conference play, the line for tickets will be long.
News flash: at 10-8 or even 12-6 (which are far more likely), perhaps demand is not as strong.
Get used to losing more often than you are used to, and get back to me on how that affects attendance.
I agree even during phi slamma jamma avg attendance was 7.5k
I hope not.
Anything around there is a good season in B12 Hoop.
11-7 in B12 last year was # 3 seed for Baylor, K State.
12-6 a # 2 for Bonghorns.
B12 had 8 of Top 30 Ken Pom.
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As long as we are still good and making NCAA runs attendance will still be very good. If is okay to lose a few more games due to deeper schedules.
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when the Dream gets in his pocketbook and funds the expansion I will listen to him!!!
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And get ready for the âFire Sampsonâ threadsâover and over.
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The Dream does not like big publicity on himself. Remember the anonymous donor that gave big money to the Guy V Lewis Facility and Fertita Center that was not Fertita? I strongly believe it was the Dream who was the donor. Which is why he saw the renderings of the Fertitta Center and made it is too small comment.
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That was 30+ years ago. The school enrollment has doubled and there have been so many graduates since then. UH is a much larger University then it was during Phi Slama Jama. Have to grow with the times and we did not do that or at least design for that when built the configuration of Fertita Center
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We are just a few years away from only having 3k show up.
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Thatâs being generous.
I used to just hope for 4-5K because that meant we would at least have an atmosphere.
I donât think UH went smaller capacity wise with Fertitta Center because of $$$. But yeah i get your point.
It was because Houston couldnât consistently filled out the old Hoff for decades even when they had okay teams and UH was a G5 school with no end in sight to joined a P5 conf. when FC was about to be built. They also were coming off getting shutout out of the Big 12 in 2018.
Go Coogs 
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I donât think anybody foresaw the run of seasons we would be having when they designed the Fertitta Center and last season people were still giving away mid-week game tickets. If we had a capacity of 15k we would have sellout crowds for the big games and then have trouble getting 5-6k people in the seats for mid-week games against bad teams making the arena look empty. With a limited capacity some fans will attend those bad games because they cannot get or afford tickets to the big games and all games will be packed houses. Honestly at this point the athletic department can crank the ticket prices and not lose season ticket sales and a few thousand extra seats would do very little in terms of revenue especially based on the costs to build it, and the atmosphere is awesome even for the crappiest opponents.
For TDECU I would expect 2 consecutive seasons of 75% sellouts and a significate waiting list for season tickets before they even talk about expanding more than just the premium seats.
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