Those campuses were put in those places for a reason so doubt they’ll ever gravitate to the main campus - once you make things convenient you pretty much lost folks then. We’ve saturated houston suburbs with those campuses as I understand but it’s totally different from a UT situation as do they have UT campuses inside Austin or close suburbs?
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UHD, UHCL, and UHV are component universities (part of the UH System), not satellite campuses. Sugar Land is a satellite campus of UH. Each campus has its own admissions requirements, fee structure, and president, provost, etc. UHD students cannot just signed up for classes at UH. The students at the components do not pay UH student services fees, so they would have to pay for tickets like the rest of us. But there’s no harm in trying to get them behind the cougars.
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Right. I know quite a few people that identify as just “UH grads” if asked. One of the guys who sits with me at football games and buys season tickets is a UHD graduate. It never hurts to promote UH sports as something the other campuses can get involved with. If they don’t want to, then that’s fine, as well.
BTW, looked up UHV’s sports offerings these days. Men: Baseball, soccer and golf. Women: Softball, soccer and golf.
I really wish we had men’s soccer.
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UHV will add more as time goes by.
UHD has a few club sports. I officiated a college VB match over there once. High school players going there who want to continue to compete at a club level. They are in a group with various Lone Star campuses. I guy I know used to coach the mens bb team at Lone Star Kingwood(part time job)
Living here in Dallas, I can tell you that tons of UT Arlington folks aspire to go to UT Austin. I know several folks who could not get into UT Austin, finished there career at UT Arlington and are now big UT Austin fans. I think the idea is that if they could not get into Austin, the UT administration pushed them to attend a separate campus in hope of transferring to the mother ship.
Back in the 90’s when I taught at nights as an adjunct at UHCL, the campus offered UH football tickets each week for home games. But, very few were ever sold. At that time UHCL was an upper level campus only taking Jr/Sr/graduate students with most getting their first two years at San Jac JC, Alvin JC, or College of the Mainland.
Since retiring, I work as an adjunct at UHD@Lone Star-Kingwood. Our Kingwood education students can take their entire 4 years at Kingwood and never set foot on the UHD campus as they also can on other Lone Star Campuses. I don’t even know if tickets are available through UHD. But, the convenience of taking the train from UHD to the stadium could be a good option.
As an aside, I’ve always believed we should take a thousand or two of complimentary tickets for each home game (until we fill up the stadium) and send them to the area high schools 20-30 per game for distribution to top athletic, band and academic students. Having worked at a 5-A high school it would be a great promotion for UH. We could have easily distributed that many or had a drawing from interested students ever week. Keep the promotion all season to build the habit of going to UH games.
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Satellite campuses provide a student an opportunity to enroll on a path to easily transfer to the main campus if they chose. That is the case for UT Tyler and A&M Commerce.
On a side note, are you in the education dept at Kingwood, or just a general term of education? I am an adjunct in the visual communications dept.
Yeah, but do you realize how much bigger UTSA, UTEP, and UTD are than UHD and UHV? UT has no choice but to let those schools get their own identities since they are giant universities in their own right! For example, UTSA has a student body population that is nearly twice that of Miami! And those other two campuses within the UT system are 40% and 75% larger than Miami as well, respectively! UT is so filthy rich and huge so it doesn’t need any help from its sister schools. However, since the discussion is how could we get those other schools within the UH system to come to our football games and other athletic competitions, and since UH isn’t as fortunate as UT with the kind of money and support that it has, so why not encourage our sister schools to come to our games by making them more like an extension of our school instead of separate schools? It’s hard to get people to see themselves as a part of your school when each school has its own mascot and athletic program, that’s all I’m saying.
We put all of them in one area unlike the other UT schools so basically you stopped feeding the main campus and made it easier for them to keep the same routine
We cannibalized our schools and other local schools as a result
You Sir are awesome. You get it, This is all about marketing. We are all part of the UH family. There is only one FBS Div I football program in the UH system. This is the type of stuff that gets me going. This is a perfect marketing opportunity to “rally the troops” and get a bigger greater Houston area market share. This is not rocket science. Someone just someone needs to get their arse up and start putting together a real action plan to put into action exactly that. This is how you build customer loyalty. YOU REACH OUT TO THEM.
My daughters (nine and 12) were asking me to get my wife a new Apple iphone 11 or 28. You understand the question? They have been “brainwashed” to get the latest iphone. This is the ultimate brand recognition. How did the apple achieve it? EFFECTIVE MARKETING I keep writing it over and over again. We have a gift from god to have Mr. Fertitta with us. He is Mr. Hospitality. Tickets si about hospitality. What is it going to take to have a joint ticket strategy with the Landry;s empire?
Frankly I do not get it. Furthermore we have the Hilton College on campus. Don’t you think Hilton knows a thing or two about hospitality? I am stopping right here. We just find ways to shoot ourselves in the foot like no other. Mr. 73Coog please relay my little thoughts. Thank you.
The CAP program is what they used to have in place to do that.
I knew people who did not get into UT go to the CAP program and went to UTSA and UT-Arlingnton for a year, followed the guidelines and smoothly transferred into Austin the following year.
Edit- I stand corrected, they still have the program. I thought they got rid of it because UTSA folks were complaining about it.
It is still there. UH apparently has their own version but you sign up at the other campus.
CAP is a scam. I got CAP’d for Computer Science. Turns out when you transfer, you aren’t in Computer Science lol.
Yogi Berra once spoke about deja vu all over again.
Every couple of years some young whipper snapper comes around with this idea.
We hash it out for 50-60 post.
We all love UH. There are valid reasons to promote ourselves to our system sisters. There are valid reason to keep the flagship separate.
It is an interesting debate. Either way, the other schools there or not will never greatly change our attendance picture or financial picture no matter what side of this issue you agree with.
Interesting conversation but will not move the needle either way.