National publications have picked up the attendance debacle

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We need to get back to reasonable pricing for everything and advertise it. Think we had a perfect storm yesterday.

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This won’t be popular but after attending the ASU game last week against UH, what stood out is their student population is very white. And whites are going to be more into athletics than minority students. Just the way it is.

And like most other schools that aren’t UH, there’s stuff to do right around campus — bars and restaurants. You can pregame and walk to the stadium. We don’t have that for the most part.

Last basketball season, I went to Cougar Den before the Tech game to meet friends and have a pregame beer. The parking lots around it were empty on a Saturday but I still got a ticket from cowards at UHPD. Doesn’t exactly encourage people to hang out

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Just put sports questions on all UH admissions applications and we can weed out the non-supporters before they step on campus.

This is the easiest thing to do at this point.

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There are a ton of things UH can do better to improve attendance but let’s not kid ourselves. The alumni still wouldn’t care.

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We had momentum on that strip on the street formerly known as Calhoun. That should have developed even further and could have been a whole thing by now

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I attended the Cincy UH game at Nippert in the championship game, it was pretty evident who the student population was ethnically.

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Cincy is the 2nd P4 in Ohio after Ohio State.

UH is competing with UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, and SMU.

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Texas is a little bigger than Ohio no?

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Who can afford to go spend $150 plus all in, on a CFB game?
I’m an ancient geezer coog who USED to be a season TH for both BB and FB–that is until one of our top thinking AD’s decided to raise prices on every little thing that existed within sports enjoyment. He did so, I just flat couldn’t afford it anymore with a young family then and dropped out–so did several of my buds. No, I don’t go to the games-in retirement I can’t justify the costs involved. I’d like to go to a few of them, now health issues/costs are creeping in to stop even that. Seems like attendance has not been equated with costs involved—it shows.

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“Where are their fans?” Answer? That’s them. About 25,000 or so that show up pretty much every game. We’re an older fan base and many of us are dying off.

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Yes, Texas is bigger than Ohio but it is hard to sell UH to a prospective outside of Houston when SA, Austin, DFW, have other P4s within a 2 hour drive.

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The trade off you had was that your generation went to UH when you could afford it with a part time summer job.

Many UH grads who attended after the 2000s had to work full time or take out loans more than our salary.

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Another thing as well, is that Applewhite and especially Holgerson did some serious damage running people off with the product that Fritz is slowly bringing people back into.

I think we will definitely see a season ticket bump for 2026.

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Pitt gets roasted all the time for drawing flies. It was just a couple weeks ago Ben Roethlisberger said publicly that Pitt needs to build a 35k capacity stadium of their own so they stop wrecking the turf at Heinz Field.

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Guy who has never heard of lying

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They spend their money watching the crappy Texans , we are not a college town, and yes I agree with previous poster our ethnic student body is not as into athletics as other schools, ie, TT, A$M, etc etc, we are screwed and that’s that

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Applewhite and Holgerson?

Dig deeper….

Since 2011, we have had 1.5 seasons that the city and the fanbase rallied around. ONE POINT FIVE out of 14.
(Really just one - 2nd half of 2015 and 1st half of 2016)

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I can tell a real football fan from a fake one.
Put multiple questions about past UH players, coaches, football rules, and such.

Same for basketball also.

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I thought playing in a power conference with nationally known opponents was what everyone wanted. Now we want C-USA prices for Big12 level football

Fan base isn’t serious about competing with its peers.

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I don’t know if you know this or not, but you can google the answer to basically any of those questions.

(Also, what happens when filtering on those questions leaves us with a Freshman class of 2500?)