Concur. Wyoming uniforms are possibly in my top 10
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I like playing in the snow with Wyoming when I am not playing with UH on ncaaf game.
Thatâs because most of their students donât come from Los Angeles. Only 25% are from LA, thus, the majority of their students choose to live in dorms because they donât live close by. In contrast 85% of UHâs students are from Houston, so itâs viable to commute to campus.
Is this the model you want to emulate?
YES!
We need a hard push for high school students in metros in other states, that WANT to go away to Texas for College.
Even if we can get a 50/50 Texas to non Texas student balance, we will see a huge change in the culture of our campus.
We will actually be attracting students that WANT to stay on campus!
No coincidence that the schools that attract the most out of state students are the bigger brands in college.
AGAIN, our leaders WANTED us to be a P4 UniversityâŠthey fought very hard for that.
We should act like a P4 University!
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Not out of state, out of town.
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Iâd target out of state
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Hard to win there, they have a good home field advantage.
lol, even UCLA has 80% serving state kids. But sure.
Out of town is fine with me.
Bring in the best and brightest students.
Who says that our students either should or have to be from the Houston area?
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We canât even pull good prospective students from DFW, San Antonio, or Austin.
I think the focus needs to be recruiting in other metro areas that are in a 500 mile radius or states with only 1 P5 school like Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri etc.
yes, but UCLA has a MUCH better reputation outside of the state of California than UH has outside of Texas.
We have been very poor at marketing our University nationwide.
Plus, we a VERY poor reputation inside the state of Texas among "Traditional Students.
Few have us as a top 3 destination. Theyâd rather go out of state to nearby LSU, OU, Arkansas or Alabama.
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There was push back from Cal.
âUCLA to pay Cal $10 million per year in âCalimonyâ after UC Board of Regents vote. The UC Board of Regents on Tuesday adopted a proposal that will require Big Ten-bound UCLA to transfer $10 million annually to Calâs athletic department for the next three school years.â
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Geez that is chump change with the Big 10 money coming in for UCLA.
Kids that attend flagship schools like LSU or Alabama are not the same reasons why kids attend flagships on the West/East coasts
UH outranks Alabama & LSU academically
UCLA is public ivy
We outrank LSU and Alabama yet the "perceptionâ nationally is that we are below them .
Letâs change that by better marketing ourselves to traditional out-of-state applicants.
Its a lost cause to market ourselves to tradional Texas students. It will take a few generations to change of perceived reputation with those students
We have to build ourselves from the outside -in
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You can thank the Coogs from the 80s and 90s who sent their kids elsewhere.
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Itâs still happening from even some of our alleged biggest âcheerleadersâ, like Matt Thomas.
He talked his kids into going to Texas Tech and Texas A&M for a "better college experience ".
He literally drools when he talks about those two schools, compared to UH
MT is an enigma. Talks UH more than most other sports radio hosts in Houston (maybe John Granato can give him a run for his $?) but most times it is with a BUT BUT BUT caveat. BUT their fans, BUT their conference, BUT their brand, BUT not a traditional school, BUT their school location, BUT the quality of a win, on and on. I decided long ago that it was not worth my ear to listen to him but thatâs just me. I would rather read Coogfans when I want to hear BOTH sides of an argument and not just implicit shots at UH 
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Even Don Tilman didnât send his kids to UH.
That says it all about public perception.
Who cares?