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I have to wonder how did home attendance affect the games we lost? I’m thinking more than a little bit. WE ONLY LOST AT HOME! :face_holding_back_tears:

Granted, Tech just flat out beat us but losses to W. Virginia and TCU were head scratchers and I’m thinking looking up in the stands during the National Anthem and seeing a half empty stadium for a ranked team in the thick of a conference title race has to have been majorly disappointing to the staff and players.

There has to be a way out of this, organically and otherwise. More packages, better amenities, free tickets to high schools, giving up being on TV for night games, raffles, more celebrities on sidelines, escalators, more former players visible, something.

Status quo ain’t cutting it and it’s beyond embarrassing.

I’ll line up for the firing squad now but this has to get fixed.

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A 50 year old problem.

No UH Administration has ever really cared to fix it.

We know that because never have they fixed it.

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I see NOTHING wrong with your take…

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You have to meet potential fans where they are , let them know there needed and wanted…How you do this is the question.

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a loud feisty home crowd is a part of the game.

Helps when you have that “extra player” in your home stadium

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JC, Great post . There are ways to fix it and it needs to be fixed thru some of the ways you mentioned.

It’s puzzling how we won on the road vs at home and I think it’s a valid point.

I really hope our AD embraces fixing it and next yr would be perfect after a great season. The other big factor is consistent winning where we generally have a winning season in most yrs even at 6 and 6 sometimes where we at least go bowling. Aside from that, there are multiple ways to market and price seats cheaper that don’t sell.

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My opinion only - is I believe it is 100% affecting the motivation and attitude of the team [even if only slightly early in the game] - and also it is HELPING the other team [i.e. - it brings our guys down and lifts the opposing players up].

As to what we do - I’m a black and white dollars / cents guy - drop the prices on everything - and advertise those cheaper prices. Make it as easy as possible to come to a UH game [particularly the last minute, spur of the moment decision maker]. We need to figure out how to get the casual, Houston area fan [currently not coming to any games] – to attend 1-2 games a year.

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There is a thread on this very topic with 1 million posts.

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Agreed.

Excuses are like a…holes, 99% of UH “fans” have them and they all smell like s…t.

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TCU crowd was solid… think you mean WVU & Zona…

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I saw this in person in Waco yesterday. The Baylor home crowd was small and flat when the game began. UH put two touchdowns on the board early on. The crowd filled in somewhat as the game wore on, and Baylor played much better then. But spotting us two touchdowns when the crowd was very unintimidating was the difference in the ball game.

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Gonna throw an idea out there…

…or, rather… run with someone else’s idea, to be truthful…

It may seem silly, but…

Since “gone are the days” where the majority of the Athletic Budget comes from ticket revenue, especially when you have only 30k in the seats, the UH AD should take a page out of the book of some innovative thinkers of the past, and make the entire campaign all about…

“The Beat Value in all of College Football”.

Cut season ticket prices in half, and give a refund to current season ticket holders of the difference between what they already paid, and what they are now selling for. If they don’t need the money back, they can donate it back to the NIL Collective, or buy a couple more seats and bring some friends.

Heck, the increase in concessions will almost make up for it by itself.

As you raise season ticket prices over subsequent years, Apply ALL OF the increase toward an endowment to grow the budget, and NIL and give season ticket holders credit toward perks.

Get some sunshades over the upper deck.

Give Family Game Packages out to Houston Area Schools and set up “New Fan Appreciation Tables” at the gates giving away RED T-Shirts, those cheap Dollar Tree handheld, battery-powered fans, that mist water, red visors, and pom poms…

Could probably get sponsors to pay for them by allowing them to use their logo.

Allow people to tailgate wherever they want.

Make parking cheaper and provide golf cart shuttle to the stadium gates.

Make the Goal starting a lonnnnng string of consecutive sellouts.

Schedule all the games for 3:00 pm, or later and tell the networks to kiss your ass if they don’t like it.

I’m telling ya’, the Scipt needs ta’ be Flipped !

Do that in 2026, and by the time We beat LSU (and Lane) on opening day in 2027, UH will be “the talk of college football”.

Bet ESPN would look at the Coogs a little differently?

Heck we might even get College Gameday for the matchup against the Bengal Tigers…

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Absolutely it affected us.

The football program was going through a difficult time around the WVU, and the fans didn’t show up.

Now I don’t fully blame the fans. The most casual fans are not going to know the story surrounding Kurt.

Nunez/Marketing should’ve started marketing the path to the championship starting with WVU. There was a path at that point.

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Because of the DC’s death and the whole remembrance of him before and during the game, a somber attitude was prevalent in the stands and in our team. We were just not mentally prepared for battle.

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I agree, but it didn’t help that the fans didn’t show up.

The showing was absolutely terrible.

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Cutting prices is never going to happen and is a temp fix, every admin knows what has to happen but chooses not too do the right thing, it’s not going away anytime soon, embrace it and live with it, the President and AD HAVE!!!

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It being a lowly WVU team (even though they did beat us, kudos to them), doesn’t help.

To me it’s just a sense of apathy with our alumni. Something that stretches back even into the SWC days.

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…but why in the world did WE schedule our season opener on a Thursday night.
That game should have been a weekend Celebration!

That game wasn’t even on TV so we did that one to ourselves…stupid.

To me, that set the tone for the rest of the home games.

Our leaders didn’t care…why should we type of message

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Nuñez felt that by having it on a Thursday, it would allow the fans to have the opportunity to attend it rather than over the Memorial Day weekend where many may be traveling.

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Ironically our biggest crowd at home had Tech dominating our Coogs

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