Bullshit. If the team is doing as well as we expect, no way that happens. Look at 2016 OU game. It was 65/35 or better UH. Look at the Texas bowl last season. There is real momentum with the team and attendance at Reliant follows. That being said I want the OU game at home at TDECU. I would love the England game, but schedule a week zero with someone else.
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Somebody brought up UT, OU is not UT, UT and and Texas A & M are in a different class as far as turnout in Houston. When UT played here it was a sell out with the cheapest tickets being $112, in some section that single game retailed on the secondary market for more than the season ticket price. In 2016 OU came in as number 3 playing us a ranked team in a showcase game and they did not out number us, their crowd is probably closer to TT.
I used to have sideline chairbacks on the northside, they just reduced the season ticket price of the sections from $725 to $550, I moved to Queenie’s but I hope they sell better because they had been filling them with visitors because the single game price was cheaper then the season ticket per game price.
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Uh, no.
I was at the 2016 OU game, and while they had a large contingent of fans, they did NOT outnumber us.
Pretty clear UH majority; felt like a home game.
And I agree with others here who say that if they didn’t outnumber us at Reliant, then it’s hard to believe that they would outnumber us at TDECU.
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Just piling on to say that I hate the thought of moving out half of a home-and-home to a neutral site. Auburn moved the home half of their series with Baylor to Atlanta for similar reasons this year and that sucks too. I don’t mind a neutral-site opener, but it should be scheduled as such. (I’m actually kind of a big fan of the thing LSU was doing for a hot second where they were scheduling two “neutral” games in decidedly non-neutral stadiums.)
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All you have to do is watch the game, we were clearly the majority, like we were at the Texas Bowl vs LSU.
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What you mentioned about is directly linked to the SWC era.
I was there too. It was at Reliant. We DID outnumber them and we were louder too. Unfortunately that game was an exception.
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