Everyone on here that was watching on tv complaining about the weak attendance.
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Elsewhere on Coogfans, the OP is wanting centralized authority out of the picture and for individuals to take responsibility.
Here itās a twitter like blow up of rambling word salad.
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You missed agreat offensive performance. D sucked big time in the first half. But improved in the second.
Yeah true but there wasnāt as much athletic support that I recall in comparison to now. Joining the Big 12 is the āturning pointā if you will.
Even academically in RKās address, she mentions how important joining this conference is for academics.
Huhhhh?
Donāt bet on it.
Tell me where every administration in UH history has failed and how it can be solved.
I have been waiting for close to 60 years
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The 2 major favors working against us are being in a pro sports town and the fact only 16% of our undergrads live on campus. Unfortunately, the only way to make progress against the pro sports problem is win. We need to make the bonding of students to the University when they are freshmen stronger through campus life like housing, Greek system, etc.
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80% of the people who attended yesterdayās game were not inside the stadium 10 minutes before kickoff when the Spirit of Houston played the Alma Mater. By the start of the 2nd quarter, most had found their seats.
About half the students cleared out at halftime, maybe because their interest was the homecoming court and not the actual game.
To the thread title, it seems fopaux to criticize President Khator since she has achieved so much, but her legacy is going to be the campus rebuild and the capital drives that got that done, but definitely not building a student experience or an on-campus culture.
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U can help by showing up and not turning on the tv
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Do both, tv numbers matter more
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Iāve seen it since the Yeoman era.
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But see Iām like 50/50 on this statistic
āLiving on campusā is such a double edged sword being that we arenāt a college town. UT, A&M, Tech, hell, even UTSA, they live on off campus housing but still in proximity to the campus.
Problem with Houston is that people live in Cypress, Missouri city, Sugarland, etc. so thereās no reason to live near campus when you can just commute
Granted, I think near-campus population is increasing, but until UH grants Greek Life mansions on McGregor, nobody is going to live near campus unless theyāre forced to
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Those 80% of the people who were late arrivers were mostly outside socializing and finishing/having another drink before taking their seats. Our pre-game on-field activities are greatly undervalued. (And such things are never shown on televised games anymore, and so no one has a sense that theyāve āmissedā anything if they donāt see them.)
Homecoming had little or nothing to do with people leaving at half time. It happens every game. Why? I donāt know, perhaps there are multiple reasons, but many of those who walk out of the stadium at half time are students.
Playing directional schools doesnāt help attendance. UH should avoid doing so for at least the next 5 years. (I donāt consider West Virginia to be a direction school.)
I question the whole concept of homecoming. Would anyone really care if it simply disappeared? Most UH fans live close enough to campus to attend a game anytime they want to. And, for those alums who decide to journey back to UH once a year to rekindle fond college days memories by watching their school play football, they got to see that red (as in āfight, fight for red and whiteā¦ā) is no longer āa thingā.
[Please do not waste your/my time telling me about how wearing black uniforms is a Halloween ātraditionā. Iāve been to more than 50 seasons worth of UH football games that were played on or around October 31, and wearing black uniforms is most definitely not a tradition. Moreover, lots of other schools do it. Itās a marketing gimmick: a contrivance to sell merchandise of a different, non-traditional color.]
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G5 football is a hard sell when the World Series is in Houston and just in general. Not to mention weāre playing a 1-6 USF team.
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Exactly
As hard as it is to admit it, itās the truth
They are not the only metro school with attendance issues either. Miami, UCLA & even USC have had attendance issues as well.
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Navy has tailgating before and after games. I was noticing families cooking for their kids and their friends. I wish we werenāt kicked out after our games.
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I donāt live in Houston and I donāt go every gameā¦ā¦sometimes on the weekends I am dead tired and just donāt feel like making the drive.
And being completely honest if our season had been going better I probably would have gone this weekend. If we were 7-0 or 6-1 I would goā¦ā¦call me a bad alumni, donāt really care.
I do make sure that my tickets are usedā¦.when I donāt go my nephew takes his son so there is someone in my seats.
This season everything was lined up to be a special oneā¦.but IMO our coaches set this team up for failure by not putting in the time when it mattered.
Was I there? Of course not. But some of the things I have seen on both sides of the ball are coaching issues.
I hope the team wins every game the rest of the way but to me it could and should have been much betterā¦.if this team was undefeated or had one loss the stadium would not be half emptyā¦.itās not as though we have lost to any world beatersā¦.even if you throw away the loss to Kansas( you remember, the one THE COACHES QUIT ON) the Tech loss and the Tulane loss to a third string QB should have never happenedā¦.no excuses.
Six months ago I was pumped about the move to the Big 12ā¦.not anymore.
Two of our three sports we are going to be an embarrassment because we have terrible coachingā¦.I honestly canāt believe I feel that way but that is where I am as an alumniā¦.
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