IIRC that hike was in the form of a PSL-like deal and it drove me to give up my seats for football. My wife and I were part of a group that had tickets for a decade or so after we had all graduated. I don’t think anyone in our group renewed. I talked to people years later who were also put off by that move. It was a mistake that took a very long time to recover from.
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AD’s forget it’s entertainment and discretionary income is being spent. Price me out of the market in attending the game I look for other forms of entertainment and less costly way to watch games instead of attending them.
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Its incredible that someone so smart was so dumb. He would have made more money if he had stayed here. Especially now.
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You think Texas and A&M alums give money to their schools’ football programs because they’re important to the economy? They give because they feel part of those programs, and they think that giving helps their teams win. Same reason I and other UH alums give. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of us. Hopefully Fritz will turn the program around (he’s on the right track) and more folks will get involved. If we can average 30k+, and I think we will if we’re winning, we should be able to get some corporations to pitch in for NIL.
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It wasn’t about the money. It was about the prestige and the resources UT had to offer. Herman had a greater chance of winning a national championship at UT. Herman under recruited at UT, upset the UT BMDs, and poured gasoline on the Eyes of Texas controversy, directly disobeying AD Del Conte. I am convinced he would have flamed out at UH.
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Much as I HATE to say it, I enjoyed the Judas years here about as much as any before. He created a “third ward” persona for the team that carried into the game, the players simply got after it! Even our sorry a$$ TV stations and newspaper gave UH good words and ink. No, wasn’t a fan of “grille’s”, and some of the other poop he put out. The Oklahoma game to me stands out as one of the very top games UH has ever been involved in. Alas, the true colors rose to the top-and they wern’t red/white.
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I don’t know about the Horns, but the blind loyalty at A&M has cost them in a way that has kept them from taking the next step to a championship team.
They are example A that throwing money at the problem will not solve it whether it be NIL or donations.
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Isn’t Horn his Alma mater too? I mean I can’t knock him for leaving
I think, horn has a competent football program at the moment. Can’t say that about Aggie. Even with all the cash they pour into it. Horn is much, much better positioned for a Natty or two
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So far am encouraged by what Fritz is doing.
What many might not know, or remember, is that Yeoman had killer defenses. And it had a nickname…Mad Dog Defense.
Fritz is like that. He has already put a stellar defense on the field. And Defense travels.
Fritz also is emphasizing character and comraderie. An actual “team”.
I think we are on our way to stability. And to winning.
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Massive Instability occurs when the world we grew up in changes (as in everyday).
Stability is about feeling safe by everything that surrounds us (home, economics, defense, technology, etc.). Name something that hasn’t changed dramatically. I can’t think of anything (even the stars).
Regarding sports, I grew up in an age where players, coaches, stayed with the team many years (you didn’t need a program to keep up with who’s who on gameday).
I moved on from professional football with the creation of free agency. Turned my focus to college football. Now we have NIL and a majority of fans only accept winning and expect to be in the CFP to continue their interest and support. That is too narrow a view of what constitutes success for me to put my emotions on the table for games.
The reality is college football today a picture of what the newer generations of supporters (and media companies) expect. I can’t blame the newer generations because it is what makes them comfortable today.
As always, change is always changing faster.
I only wrote this to try and for myself figure out why I became no longer enthralled by college football. It’s because I no longer get a sense of excitement, contentment, and peace on GameDay.
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Eh. He did his Master’s there.
Bill Yeoman did not “retire” voluntarily. The NCAA (UT) told UH that we had to either fire Coach Yoeman or they would basically give us a football death penalty. That is why Coach Yoeman stepped away from UH athletics and started fundraising for the University.
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My understanding was a little different as he was getting older, recruiting was reducing, and the 1/11 year finally did it.
Whatever were the real circumstances the fact remains that we have, literally, rented Head Coaches since 1986.
Let’s go through the coaches since Pardee left for the Houston Oilers:
- John Jenkins - Fired for regression in team performance and inappropriate images in practice videos that some players found objectionable.
- Kim Helton - Fired for team underperformance.
- Dana Dimel - Fired for team underperformance.
- Art Briles - Left to coach Baylor Bears.
- Kevin Sumlin - Left to coach Texas A&M.
- Tony Levine - Fired for team underperformance.
- Tom Herman - Left to coach University of Texas.
- Major Applewhite - Fired for team underperformance.
- Dana Holgerson - Fired for team underperformance.
- Willie Fritz - To be determined.
Funny. Last I checked, the reason football coaches are called ‘coaches’ is because they umm coach.
ATM had the #1 recruiting class with Fisher and he went 7-5.
Give Herman some credit for the 2015 season.
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Yeah, I’ve never gotten the line of thinking that a coach somehow isn’t as good because he won with guys someone else recruited. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, honestly.
He may not turn out to be a great long-term fit or whatever, but the fact that he took those guys and led them to the best season most current Coog fans have ever seen showed that he could coach.
Sumlin was clearly below him in terms of coaching chops but put together maybe our best coaching staff. Pardee didn’t have the immediate success but was hindered by installing a completely new offensive scheme with ill-fitting players. Briles was a proven innovative coach and continued that here. I’d rank Herman behind Briles and Pardee but ahead of Sumlin in terms of coaching performance.
What Herman did in 2015 exposed how we underachieved in 2014 with Levine.
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so in short, over the last 30ish years, we’ve hired two kinds of coaches: them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.