Population growth has nothing to do with UH. It’s the alumni that should be supporting UH athletics. The question of why they don’t is debatable. I’m of the opinion attendance could be fixed if it was prioritized. Leadership doesn’t care and nobody is held accountable.
This you?
The way some posters here talk about UH it’s a wonder how any of us got jobs with our degrees.
AGAIN, it has nothing to do with the quality of our DEGREES earned there, its about creating a passionate connection with the school you earned that degree from, both during your time there and for the rest of your life.
You honestly think we are st our ceiling in creating that connection?
Many earn quality degrees from the University of Houston but a very low % ever returns back to campus for xyz reasons.
Very few attend sporting events.
Very few mentor current students.
Very few leave part of their estate to their alma mater or donate while living even
Very few drape their newborns in UH gear.
You keep on throwing this back to degrees while totally missing the fact that every single one of us that graduate from UH are part of that exclusive “family” which is in ADDITION to the academic part.
What we are talking about is STRENGTHING that connection WHILE the students are attending the University of Houston as it leads to a connection after they leave.
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I believe UH is a Hispanic Serving Institution (“HSI”), which means that a plurality of its students are Latino/Hispanic.
So in theory, we should have a large Latino fan base.
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The teams from the recent past were lousy and boring. You can’t be both and expect people to pay good money to watch it.
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Yes and that large Latino fanbase prefers soccer over football by wide margins.
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Prob depends on which generation. Generalization from my experience but football starts to take over by 2nd generation
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Take a look at the Cowboys, Raiders, Texans fan base. You are a bit outdated…
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I hope you are being sarcastic and not just clueless.
again with the failed reading comprehension.
Im not the one with an inferiority complex about my degree, i can accept that other people value things differently than i do without going into a blabbering drooling conniption fit. You obviously care an extreme amount what others think of your degree otherwise you wouldn’t be interjecting yourself screeching “commuter degree” into every single conversation.
If my opinion of myself was the only thing that mattered id be making six figures as a twitch streamer.
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How many white kids we got, shouldn’t ALL of them be at the football games?
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Most of our new gen/era fans are from a very diverse group, where are our old white fans from before the new gen/era fans?
UH was majority white up until the fall of the SWC.
Then UH throughout the 90s and 2000s just completely lacked any growth or political support (largely at the hands of UT, A&M, Baylor and Rice) which resulted in a dramatic increase in racial diversity. I’m Mexican-American myself, but I also understand the intersection of race and class where I’m not afraid to identify it. Racial Diversity in the 90s is much different than Racial Diversity in 2024+ here at UH.
That being said, UH’s acceptance rate has lowered but then naturally jumped up a bit recently as it’s becoming less and less of a “fallback” option for UT and A&M students which probably will improve the white and Asian population over the coming decade.
Because the Greater Houston area is seeing a rise in Hispanics as well as Houston serving primarily Houston-natives, you’re going to see more and more Hispanic kids.
African American kids will probably remain relatively the same for the foreseeable future due to TSU being down the street.
UH still heavily relies on community college transfers, and I hope this decreases overtime as its most competitive schools such as Bauer and Cullen get more first year freshman. UH also needs to continue developing its relationships with the corporations in the city as well as outside the city. Being in a public school, in a metroplex with numerous major corporations, and of course perhaps the greatest medical district in the city, is one of the reasons why kids SHOULD attend UH. However, it’s natural if wealthier Houstonians want to leave home for college far away which is another problem.
Just like we want to entice athletes to stay home. We should try and provide more incentives for Houston non-athletes to stay.
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I am not sure what I said that came off clueless or sarcastic. Were you responding to someone else and responded to me by accident?
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Africans American kids will probably remain relatively the same for the foreseeable future due to TSU being down the street.
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Yes and no - everyone wants a qualified minority and will throw major money at them from high school even though they may not for the institution such as Texas A&M - blacks aren’t growing at a fast rate if any so the pool is small - look at how most HISD schools and even some fort bend isd and Aldine isd have turned Hispanic -
Hispanics are the wildcard if your going to grow but you have some who rather identify as white and will go the A&M route, some who’ll go to college like UH but work, others who don’t mind going to a hbcu and others who know college ain’t an option
U of H needs to transform its campus and it starts with gentrifying the surrounding area. We wrote about it earlier in the year. The entire neighborhood needs to a “renaissance” it will not only help U of H but also TSU.
Ain’t much left to gentrify- what’s left north of wheeler would be outright destruction if you displace anymore folks
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Like or not it is about supply and demand. Houston has no zoning laws. So the city is in constant state of evolution.
Jesus…stop with the destruction/displacement!
Very few here actually know anything about HOW cities develop and we have millions of examples of groups relocating because its in the best interest of both A) the people moving out of the lower quality districts and B) the city improving itself.
Ideally, cities develop in layers with each layer an improvement over the last.
If the genrrification issues of the last 100-150 years were today, we’d ACTUALLY have groups FIGHTING to keep the Irish in the Five Points, an area that was nothing more than pond infill with inhumane living conditions which registered as some of the WORST living conditions in the Western World. Too bad they gentrified THAT area!
We’d actually have people FIGHTING to keep recent immigrants IN their tenement buildings, despite them being known death traps. People would argue “where else would they go?”
But you know what…those people WERE displaced, and their families moved to better living conditions in other boroughs or Long Island and future generations did well BECAUSE of the displacement!
You are talking to a REAL LIFE living example of one whose family was displaced from those horrid living conditions! They are almost always better for the following generations.
Anti-Gentrification people literally make me sick to my stomach.
It’s like the politicians that want to keep “their” people at ‘status quo’ so they can continue to control them by having them remain dependent ON THEM no matter how bad their slum lord living conditions are, how horrid the crime is, or how horrible the public schools they are zoned to are. They do NOT want to give them an opportunity to grow with each passing generation.
“Lets leave them in THAT!”
I will NEVER root to keep people DOWN!
I say…create a better city and let those that WANT to better themselves and their families, do so with the opportunities created…we have million examples of this happening in all the big cities in the US BEFORE the Anti-Gentrification crowd started becoming vocal.
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We welcome everyone, commuters, out of staters, kids from other countries, whoever…When they get here, we should indoctrinate them all into the joys of supporting our sports teams…and encourage them to do it. I was a commuter student and never missed a game. People need to remember that no school was hurt more by the breakup of the SWC than Houston. We have overcome all that to rise back into P4 membership and our FB and BB teams can win nattys in ANY year, now. We have the right leadership in place for big success. We need to work to make the gameday experience as good as we can, and encourage as many people to come watch as we can. and we need to be successful. Houston likes winners, and does not put up with losers. All that has already happened with BB, and soon it will happen with FB because coach Fritz is top of the line type of coach…
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