Many of those grown folks support the program and have had a bad taste put in their mouth based on the expectations they were sold. The loss of support and attendance will probably have a bigger long term negative effect on the program than any couple of recruits. Season tickets will likely drop which shouldn’t happen with a new coach (normally a reason for excitement), and that will have a negative effect
I’ll be one of those new season ticket holders. Hopefully there are more like me.
Season tickets are going to drop anyway as we don’t have the OU game or the Louisville game on the schedule. Best we have is the Tech and the Navy game in the public’s eyes and those will get nowhere near the attention that the former did.
Season tickets will also drop because we went 9-4 and finished 6th in conference after winning the Peach Bowl. Nothing the AD or the new staff can do about that as that’s on our old coach.
Season tickets probably aren’t going to drop much because of the new staff. Most of the people complaining will buy their tickets and support the program through thick and thin. Those that are on the fence probably don’t really know much about our new staff beyond Applewhite, and he’s a well-known name in Texas so it may bring a few UT folks into the fold.
Kiffin probably wouldn’t have increased ticket sales; he’s not exactly likeable and the way he exited wouldn’t have looked good for us. Miles might have had an impact, but LSU fans tend to stick to their own team. Maybe we get a little bit of interest from Louisiana, but we aren’t playing anyone from there, nor are we playing SEC teams in order to grab that interest. Orlando would have had less of an impact on the casual fan who probably didn’t know who he was. Briles would have been a disaster.
I expect around 15K-16K season tickets sold next year; expected that after we lost to SMU and before we lost our coach. We need to win next year to get our base back up.
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Hypocrisy right there though. The fact is they were both coaching hires for UH. That is what they have in common. To say one coach deserves blind support and another does not based on your own specific criteria is hypocritical.
Either all coaches deserve 100% support from the beginning no matter their experience level, past coaching efforts and past personal history or every hire is up for criticism. You don’t get to draw the line for everyone else based on what you think is reasonable.
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Reasonable minds may differ, but i think most would say to take a wait and see approach on the hire. The program did not collapse even with the hire of Nesbit via a Google search. Complaining is fair, but we don’t have any current data to judge the new cast of coaches that were assembled. The hiring of the DC got some people to the point of anger, which is a bit crazy. Hopefully, we will learn more about the new coaches from Duarte’s interviews which I think happen today.
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