No.
I was responding to a question. It may be tangentially related to why UH’s rep is not a strong as it should be.
The whole point of my back and forth with him was about recruiting. So you and him bringing up that you don’t like some parts of town has no bearing on recruiting to the Big 12, in my opinion. It may if you’re into real estate, however.
They left a G5 for a P5 but those days are over.
Dude, that’s a hell of a lot of verbage to say “We should give up”.
And $$,$$$,$$$.$$'s per year . . . . .
Again, because their administration wasn’t a cluster. TCU wasn’t good when the SWC broke up. We were as bad, or worse.
But TCU got determined while we remained complacent.
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Also the 4th largest city/area with a miniscule fan base . . . . .
The days of coaches leaving us for Baylor are over, but most likely not Texas and A&M.
There’s no good reason we shouldn’t be able to capitalize on our location as much (more, I believe) than TCU.
Bur it will take investment, good marketing, good recruiting, and fans at games.
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TCU was loading up and investing in sports while the UH faculty was calling for eliminating football altogether.
I remember back in the SWC when I was working as a volunteer fund raiser when it was like pulling teeth to get our alumni to contribute a hundred bucks and we were happy to be able to raise a couple million dollars. Meanwhile SMU raised $25 million overnight for their athletic scholarship fund. TCU was outraising us by many millions. It was no difference when I was in a phone bank calling from the AA center some years back and we were playing in Robertson.
Our facilities sucked, but we were expected to conquer and prevail because, after all, we were Houston. I’ve always thought our coaches were working with a severe handicap and our fans and alumni are a huge part of that. The success we’ve had is miraculous. But as Kelvin Sampson sad, the administration is largely responsible for the success or failure of a program. Look what Penders had to work with in our basketball facilities and how well he did with it. Then compare that with what CKS has and you can see the difference in recruiting.
Yes, our football facilities are better than we’ve ever had; but we are still behind the rest of the B12 ot at least most of it.
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Recruiting a big 12 recruit in Katy is much harder than a big 12 recruit from 5th ward
Tyrone carrier
Charles Sims
William Jackson
Derrick Mathews
Greg Ward
Bowser
Brandon Wilson
Commonality? 4 of them grew up less than 10 miles from UH and 3 others all from smaller areas where Houston to them means something
That’s a winning formula - that’s what made phi slamma Jamma successful
Location does matter - cause the schools where 3 of them came from ain’t doing anything now and haven’t produced D1 talent in almost 10 years so now your forced to move further out to get the same talent
And they got steamrolled by a good, but not great, Alabama team that was on autopilot.
I would love to establish a pipeline to the Katy Tigers but I have always view the Tigers as better collectively than any one player. It is a tribute to the program they have built.
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So, what you’re saying is that Houston Cougar football is “the bottoms” and there is no hope. They should drop down to the MAC… What I get from you is that you have a very low viewpoint of what UH can be and a very low viewpoint of the city as a whole.
Look, since the talent pool isn’t the best in HISD, we have to go to the suburbs. Players like Matthew Golden (Klein Cain) a 4 star receiver who spurned UT to come to UH, Jonah Wilson (New Caney) another 4- star receiver who spurned UT to come to UH, Parker Jenkins (Oak Ridge) a 4-star running back who spurned OK State to come to UH, have done it. What we need is a coach who can regularly convince these 4-stars and occasional 5-star kids to continue to stay home. Before, our facilities probably weren’t good enough to keep these kids home. Although there is a lot more to be done, the facilities are better. If it wasn’t facilities, it was probably the conference. Now, that we’re in the Big12, we need a coach with a mindset change that can tell them to skip going to Waco and compete for a national title and play with Houston on your chest and have your family come watch you. If that is Dana, awesome. I’m not convinced so far that it is though.
P.S.- this is the last reply about this.
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If we are trying to replicate the Miami Hurricanes of the 80s and 90s, it will be tough with coaches moving around too much and players wanting immediate playing time.
Some on here act like UH had nothing ever - the last 20 years the facilities have been on par with tcu, etc -
All im saying from the beginning - the city of houston doesn’t produce enough big 12 prospects in a close radius so your at the starting line with everyone else - if it did we would have a better advantage cause city kids tend to give you a harder look due to better access - do you need me to call a recruit, assistant coaches and a fb alum who I know to verify what we’ve discussed?
The DFW area as a whole has a better talent base due to factors outside sports which is close to TCU so it’s easier to keep them close and they can then cherry-pick Houston and other areas -
That’s a bingo!
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A few weeks ago we all saw this great promo post of U of H circa 70’s/early 70’s. Why did our administration let our facilities go the way they did is solely on our past leaders.
The mad cows working with their ncaa buddies was just as big. I will write it again and again. The moment we got momentum the mad cows and ncaa clowns STOPPED US.
Was it the intent to get us into the SWC so we could be “controlled”? It sure looks that way. Again joining the SEC then would have been an unprecedented “earthquake” for Texas college football.
Now we are in the BIG12 almost away from the mad cows.
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