Some big assumptions with nothing to back it up. Risk losing many current fans in hopes of gaining new ones when there is no guarantee of winning more by adding a player fee. All schools major schools will be paying the players so it will not be a UH advantage over them.
Basically I’m supposed to get excited about a kid who’s sole reason they are at my school is because we paid them more - same kid will be looking for a check next year - this is ridiculous
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It’s been proven here, it’s been backed up. If you win, Houston will support you and that stadium will be filled up. Our in-state rival are not majors anymore. A&M and UT, the SEC and the Big Ten are the majors. We need to do anything we can to separate ourselves from our in-state rivals, to gain any advantage possible.
Then who and why not?
This arms race is unsustainable.
spoken as someone who may soon be supporting only junior high athletics.
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Yep, my Dad was really mad about that. He quit buying season tickets. He came back when they hired Pardee, I was moved out and in the navy so he only had to buy 2.
I’ve always thought a real NIL situation was fair. We all knew this pay for play stuff is what would happen though, and the portal just threw gas on the fire. With all the money being made the talent deserves a piece no doubt, but the first time we have a star QB we recruited and developed bought out from under us I may just say screw it and log off for good.
It hasn’t happened in basketball so far. That’s the model I hope will stick. Till then everyone needs to buy a lotto ticket, one big jackpot could finance O and D linemen for a long time. 
Ha! U don’t think UH and others don’t go to junior high games?
I agree JC, and the NCAA has the governing structure to do this. There have been some interesting bills in Congress, with bipartisan support, but none have had the traction to move forward. I believe the NCAA can move quicker in addressing this issue than Congress. Without getting too political, Congress has bigger issues than passing NIL legislation.
We could do like the Thundering Herd…
“We’d love to have some of those guys from Ohio State down, so if they want to transfer on down, we’ve got a Tudor’s Biscuit NIL. All you can eat. So if any of those guys that run really, really fast at Ohio State like Tudor’s Biscuits, I promise you, all you can eat, all day if you transfer here.”
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- This is the outside the box thinking you need to have.
- He better be careful. He’s not at a big enough program to get away with tampering with kids not in the portal.
They’ll just start tacking on “Service Fees, Facility Use Fees, Convenience Fees” etc. etc like all the other Entertainment Industries are doing to support NIL payments. Combine that with Corporate and The Big Cigars are only way I see it happening. I just can’t see how us Average Joes, can or will, support NIL enough to maintain it.
If anything, it disproves it. When UH has won, the stadium filled up but didn’t convert a large percentage of those new attendees into season ticket holders. The constant season ticket holder number over a moving average proves that.
So, alienate the core base and you lose net season ticket holders.
No, it’s been proven if we win the stadium is filled up.
This model would definitely not work with us if our traditional season holders were expected to be the only ones to pick up the bill.
This fee would need to be applied to all ticket sales Which is why the point that I mentioned earlier about the stadium being filled up is the most important.
In this ever changing world of college sports, I say let the fans vote with their pocketbooks.
With the stadium size of the SEC schools, the divide between what a player makes in B12 vs SEC will only grow to where naturally it will be a P2 semi professional league. If you only draw 30K vs a school that draws 110K, they can pay players what we cannot. It is coming. A 12 teams playoff seems fair, but it will be mostly B10 and SEC schools.
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I didn’t say the stadium doesn’t fill up.
I said those people don’t convert to long term season ticket holders and that’s proven by the yearly moving average of season ticket sales.
As a result, when UH stops winning, which every program goes through, then alienating the few season ticket holders we have will result in a steeper decline in income.
My feelings exactly. I do also follow my son’s schools (Nebraska and TxState) but other than that I haven’t watched a down of any other game in quite a while. And I try to tune out the noise (realignment, NIL, portal) as best I can.
Well, that’s what I was talking about is proven, that if we win, we will fill up the stadium and sell tickets.
I never mentioned anything about converting long-term season ticket holders. If anything, I said that it would turn our current season ticket holders which actually was in agreement with what Butch brought up