Traffic is a dumb cop out lol
There isn’t much traffic on Saturdays.
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Yah if you’re like me you’d rather drive two hours in the country than two hours in bumper to bumper traffic any day of the week
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You bring up a very interesting point. 5,000 is a horrible number! We’ve had SEVERAL attendance conversations here in the last 3 months. Some posters here post about attendance more than others. I can see a pattern with many of them; it seems to be a lot of out-of-towners. It would be informative to identify those 5,000, and I would bet it’s not the 5,000 who keep bringing up attendance issues, but maybe the out-of-towners.
I don’t know where you live but it only takes me 30-40 minutes to UH on the weekends compared to 1 hour during the weekdays.
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exactly. I can get from where I live on the west side of 610 to the stadium in 20ish minutes before a Saturday game easily. Plus I drive right through downtown on 45 doing it.
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I would know because I was number 2000 something out of 5,000 something when it was seat upgrade time last season.
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Houston is an event city and it’s an enclosed stadium with AC. That helps with drawing a crowd . Haven’t been to NRG recently for a college game, but the food service is probably better too
Atmosphere has to be juuuust right
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Nah… traffic still sucks in Houston on Saturdays…
You just don’t realize it because it’s even worse every other day except Sunday.
Trust me… I drive 70-80 mph the entire way to my office here in NC during rush hour…
Last time I was down for Tech I couldn’t believe how bad the traffic was on Saturday at 59 & 288…
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I live in the klein area, 2920 and Kuykendahl is a good cross street. I am a two time alumni working on his doctorate. I am an empty nester. My wife and I make a game a year, this year was 2. It takes about an hour to get to campus before walking to the game and I get to listen about that the entire time . Then the drive home is always a little longer. So with the game and the walk and the commute we are in for a 7 hour adventure. Or I can sit in my pool and watch any game I want and change the channel as I choose and the wife is happy and the bathroom is clean and the food costs less.
I didn’t miss a home game from 96 to 2009. Now it is just a once a year treat.
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If you think it sucks on Saturdays, I guess you don’t do it Monday to Thursday like I do.
Wow
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I can’t remember where I was, but I’ll take note next time up for upgrades. What is worse is that there are 3,222 Cougar Pride members if I’m reading it correctly, (I’m #1792 in ranking). Even the people not making it on the season ticket list should be a Cougar Pride member, wouldn’t you think?
That was literally my point of why you don’t think it sucks on Saturday… lol
Yes if you only read part of my post. Up ticket prices by $20. Then reduce concession prices and you may come out with less expenses as a fan. How much is it to feed a group of 3 with 2/3 sodas, burgers or wings, fries plus snack during a game for each person (not even counting beers or margaritas)?. People will pay money to be part of an “event” but they want to be treated well and the lower concessions says UH is offering you a good day.
To a casual sports fan, Just giving away cheap tickets says the game is just good a backup plan because they can’t sell tickets. It is a balancing act overall as too high is as bad as too low.
Most complain about attendance and say to lower prices. They don’t directly complain as much about prices (or shouldn’t as UH is one of the cheapest in the P4) but use it as an attendance excuse. People do complain every game directly about concession prices. That effects the fan experience when going to the game itself.
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They get some pockets in Raleigh of traffic but it’s not on my route and NOTHING compared to Houston.
Its simple. Big game, enclosed stadium with AC. Night game.
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We had that with the Astrodome before Robertson and the 2013 season at NRG and we still had bad attendance,
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I used to live on the ‘left coast’. All I know is what I saw there:
Nobody watched the LA Kings. Bruce McNall bought them and got Wayne Gretzky.
Then, he wooed the media bigtime and got them on his side and then blitzed the town with publicity and media.
After that he got Hollywood ‘stars’ to show up for his games and he got the media to cover it.
The Kings quickly became the ‘cool’ ticket where the ‘cool’ people showed up. The Kings were exciting and FUN TO WATCH.
USC basically followed the same recipe when the Rams went back east. USC was ‘the ticket’ to get in LA. USC covered the town with media and media coverage.
USC was seen as cool. And they put a product on the field that won a lot of games that was FUN TO WATCH.
USC owned LA until the lambs got another foothold.
I have trouble not laughing when people call Houston a “pro sports town” with 'too many venues to compete for the entertainment dollar".
Cougar basketball tells me the market is there.
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I get robbed with price hikes on the basketball side.
We don’t need it for football.
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