Apathy has always been the hallmark of UH athletic fans. Since my days as a student in the Astrodome, we were lucky to have 1,000 students, and that is through Heisman and run and shoot years. The president is trying to address it, with four year degrees and more on campus housing. Not every student is going to be interested in football, that is why you have to make it a spectacle, a party, the thing to do on campus. With the 100 years celebration, we missed out on many years of converting fans. Going forward, we need every student that wants to go to the game a priority. Start fresh and try to get 10% graduation to buy season tickets. Give them a discount, with discount parking, food, drinks, field passes, whatever it takes to make a new fan. Eddy will have to get creative if he wants to fill the stadium.
(On a positive note, the fans we do have are super fans, most are on this board)
Free tickets and $5 beers/hot dogs.
It works for the Falcons!
There is no solution to Houston traffic
I’m going to slightly disagree. 30K for a ranked team in the conference race at 3pm is not good. Plus, I’m not convinced there were 30K butts in seats.
My main point was that during the National Anthem, the crowd size was sparse and could have attributed to the slow start. Players feed off juice at home games and it’s my contention that the crowd size at the beginning of the game could have had an affect. Just my opinion but TCU should have been close to a sellout.
At kickoff, 2000 “fans” are in that air-conditioned club, you’re right, butts were not in seats
Sure there is, it just won’t be cheap….
Consider this…
GOOD
FAST
CHEAP
Pick 2…
If it’s good and fast, it won’t be cheap
If it’s good and cheap, it won’t be fast
If it’s cheap and fast, it won’t be good
For me, I almost always prefer, good and cheap. But you have to be patient.
Sometimes I choose good and fast, but I can’t always afford to.
I never choose fast and cheap. Why bother?
One day my son challenged that Idea…
He said… hey Dad, what about the McDonalds Chicken Sandwich? …back when they were on the dollar menu. > $1
My response was…
You may be on to something?
A month later the McDonalds Chicken Sandwich over DOUBLED in price.
Oh well…
“… point was that during the National Anthem, the crowd size was sparse”
It wasn’t sparse. People were getting seated. You make it sound like nobody showed up.
And players that have played football since they were five don’t feed off crowds.
If you played any form of competitive sports, you’d understand that.
We had much smaller crowds during the astrodome with Andre Ware and Case having smaller turnouts at Robertsons and those teams nearly had undefeated seasons.
If it truly was fan support at games, then we wouldn’t have been undefeated at our away games. Your theory doesn’t hold.
People showed up but I expected more for a ranked team facing an in-state conference rival while in contention for a CCG appearance with a 3 O’Clock kickoff. Second deck on visitors side wasn’t half full at kick off and the third deck was almost empty. No bueno but again, just my opinion.
It’s just my opinion and yes we’ve had much worse crowds but I’d like a higher bar is what I’m saying.
You’re bringing an issue of attendance that’s been a long time issue.
One of the greatest qbs ever in college football who holds all the records was Case Keenum. When nearly went undefeated plus ranked, crowds were under 23k. So today the avg is more than the height of some of the greatest uh football.
Greg Ward was beating Oklahoma,Louisville, and a lot of quality opponents 10yrs ago. We had attendance issues back then and we were even higher in ranked. We even won a NY6 bowl. The avg was a little better than today but still had issues.
But both Ward and Keenum were never effected by smaller crowds.
As UH houses more students we’ll hopefully grow our population at football games.
In-seat urinal and you’re onto something…
Free beer!
With the exception of CU and Tech, I’ve undercut the UH prices on Seatgeek, sold my szn tickets, and still made a profit (given I have student ticket privileges, I still use those).
On here, I do the same, AND throw in my parking pass for free.
That’s how bad it is.
The big issue is, UH students WANT exactly what the other schools have when it comes to student life and culture.
The school doesn’t push it.
The student body isn’t as unified as it was before COVID.
Before COVID, you could feel that every Coog WANTED UH to be good. Angry posts about the school were filled with passion. Because UH COULD have done better. People did their part or they didn’t, and that was fine, but people WANTED UH to be good.
You don’t see that type of student body in this day and age.
When will the school push that? UNIFY the student body, and get them to buy in. That student life will come, and the Golden Era will rise again.
In my mind, the big push to finally get a P4 invitation signaled a sea change in our mission statement that we MUST become a Traditional University ASAP and attract that kind of student (lives in campus, graduates in 4 years, plans to be involved during and after their school days).
Since the P4 inclusion, we’ve broke ground on a Campus quality of life project- The Centennial, finished an addition to the football stadium, have broke ground on a new Freshman dorm, and ran a recent article stating how living on campus is a LIFE CHANGING type of decision (published and endorsed by UH) yet we still have old dinosaurs here sabotaging that direction.
One problem, and not her fault, is that RK didn’t grow up with a mult- generational American University attending family. She is doing her best but is try to fix this very difficult problem from an “outside looking in” approach.
Where is our University District?
Where is our Stately Greek Row, or similar social club row?
Those have a tremendous impact on the type of students that attend.
We need to target more northeasterners looking to get away from their cold climates
2000-3000 people in AC watching it on TV and another 3k-5k on the concourse, how do you change that?
Totally and 100% false. There is a reason there is a 3 point home field advantage every game. There is a reason we are undefeated on the road in front of sold out, loud, hostile crowds, and if we admit it, there is a reason we lost two home games we should have easily won. Don’t tell me Tech was sold out so we should have won, they are a top team in the country. How many endless times have you seen a player in the game or on the side lines raise his arms to get the crowd into it. Yes, they have their own juice, but to say they don’t feed off the crowds is just not true.
One Hundred Percent
There’s a lot of room between “should have won” and “should have competed.” Our guys weren’t ready to play, despite the energy from the crowd.
There’s no causation in this correlation.
Should or If is the exact opposite to real life.
I will never understand why so many of you think a prediction is equal to an outcome. If it was true Las Vegas would not exist. A sucker is born every day.