UH and TT got the lions share and three or four other schools share what’s left.
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UCONN has been left behind for 3 reasons.
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Football is bad and doesn’t have a following.
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Football facilities are very far behind.
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The real problem that leads to 1 and 2 for UCONN football is there are very very few D1 level football players that come from their area. For this reason nobody assumes they will turn it around.
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It’s a fair assessment with valid points.
I think Yormark wanted it, but at the same time, I think he is understanding of the push back against it.
It was an idea. He presented to the presidents, I’m sure with the pros and cons. Presidents said no.
Time to move on.
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Aggies announced 92,000 today
Was wondering what that smell was being blown in on that northwest wind.
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Is that bad? Good? Why is it significant?
Is that news because Kyle Field holds 102,000? I would be doing cartwheels if UH could get half that number.
There’s a myth that Aggies sellout every game with 100,000 + as stated above with “they’d average that in CUSA. No, they wouldn’t.
There are a handful of programs that sellout every game. Ags aren’t one of them.
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92K would be a sellout almost anywhere else though.
We can’t regularly sellout a 40K stadium for hardly anyone, and we turn around and try to criticize aTm for only getting a measly 92K to a game against a I-FCS team?
Come on now.
That’s a pretty silly nitpick.
We struggled to get 25K against our last I-FBS opponent, by comparison.
aTm pretty regularly sells out or comes close to selling out one of the largest venues in college football, even when playing crap opponents like McNeese. It seems ludicrous to try and make an issue out of aTm’s most recent attendance, given the position that we are in attendance wise. We don’t really have room to criticize.
As long as aTm is in a power conference, every game they play will be a either sellout or near sellout, if one insists on nitpicking (and yes, being over 90% full, as aTm was this past weekend, would be a near sellout), in one of the largest venues in college football.
Only when we are in a similar position will we have room to criticize that.
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I just looked it up.
aTm averaged over 99K per game in a 102K stadium last season.
That’s TOP TEN nationally in total attendance, and 97% average fill in one of the game’s largest venues.
So we can pretty safely say that aTm either sells out or comes close to selling out one of the largest venues in college football every week.
If that isn’t elite attendance and fan support by anyone’s standard, then I dunno what would be.
Tickets were available for $3 online.
With LSU, UT and ND on the home schedule this has to be a record year of season ticket sales. I know it would be for UH.
Aggies will blindly attend games when the on-field performance is subpar.
But then again, they have to make every dollar they can to help pay down Jimbo’s $75 million dollar buyout.
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I’m not comparing us to the Aggies. That would be dumb. Just clearing up an Aggy myth that isn’t true. They can put 110,000 in Kyle Field and announced 92,000.
When was the last time Ohio State, Michigan, Bama, Tennessee, Clemson, Penn State, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc… had a game with 18,000 seats/sro available?
My sister in law and hubby were no shows for yesterday’s McNeese game but their season tickets are in the upper deck somewhere. Their tickets counted in attendance. Alabama and LSU had over 100k for USF and Nicholls.
I wish we had 35k students (or just fans) who attended games.
Makes no difference.
aTm is top ten in attendance nationally, and even for crap I-FCS opponents like McNeese still fills a 100,000+ seat venue at 90% or better capacity.
Any criticisms related to their attendance are pretty silly given the position that we are in on that issue.
Talk about an issue upon which we have NO room to criticize!
A&M is a f**ckin cult
UH is not a cult neither is UT
UT is a plague that needs to be eradicated.
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https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1834073091858743417
The Pac-12’s board must approve any membership applications and are expected to soon do so. The deal could be finalized by the end of the week.
The expansion is not inexpensive. Each Mountain West school is contractually bound to owe both a $17 million exit fee as well as an additional $10-12 million penalty fee as part of a scheduling agreement the conference (Pac-12) struck with the Mountain West.
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But SDSU denied an invite to the big 12… okay yeah sure
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SDSU administration is terrible. If they had a half share offer from the Big 12, they should have taken it. Starting with the Big 12 new contract in 2031, they would be getting a full share. SMH