Gee, that’s a LOT of people! That means there are a LOT OF PEOPLE WHO COULD BE BUYING TICKETS TO GAMES!! I try to look at what we CAN do - NOT what we can’t.
1 Like
Endless purple wrote almost verbatim what I would have said. Cheap tickets or free tickets people perceive the event has no real value. You keep prices the same or slightly increase. However, you lower concession prices and you improve turns at concession. You work with sponsors on prizes. $50 gift cards to HEB for a section and row. So something like this every quarter.
4 Likes
~$175.2 million in today’s money.
Add up the Football Operations Center, and Practice facility:
- TDECU Stadium: $125 million ($175.2 inflation adjusted 2014)
- Indoor Practice Facility: $20 million (26.4 million inflation adjusted 2017)
- Memorial Herman Football Operations Center: $130 million (2025)
Combining to be ~$275 million, and $~331.6 million adjusted for inflation for the whole.
For comparison the Quads replacement cost $124 million ($155.3 million adjusted), and the Fertitta College of Medicine cost ~$90 million ($105 million adjusted)
3 Likes
Did you ever smoke a Jeffery?
I don’t understand the question
In a movie called Get Him to the Greek PDiddy smokes a Jeffery with Jonah Hill while they’re trying to get Russel Brand to the Greek…
I would never incriminate myself on film, on tape, internet, or on paper… hehe
1 Like
It’s legal in Cali… 
Back in my party days it wasn’t. Now if you mean that huge stinky cloud of smoke that somehow showed up right after the house lights went down, I have no idea what you’re talking about…LMAO!!
1 Like
How many CoogFans put the Texans first over supporting UH…I’ll put my money in Vegas there are many of them…
I know many that do… Tailgating at the Texans is some of the best in the country…
That’s why the FIRST THING that needs to be addressed is the tailgating setups in front of/around TDECU stadium…
4 Likes
I can walk to the Greek but Hollywood is hellish to get in and out so I have to like the performer.
All you have to remember is NEVER drive up the hill at the Hollywood Bowl. We always parked in the shuttle lots and took the busses up. Same thing at the Greek. I did the stack parking at the Greek when I didn’t know any better, never again,
1 Like
My Hollywood Bowl plan is Metro from Sunset Junction and beers at Hard Rock and than walk. Only issue is metro after 11 can be sketch.
If we were consistently ranked in the top 25 year in and year out, then I am all for price increases.
But with no stability or consistent success like basketball, then you are just asking for attendance problems if you are continually increasing prices with no return for on-field success.
Those cheap tickets I bought many times during the Briles days before I decided to enroll at UH paid off decades later.
Our goal is to increase our non-alumni/casual fanbase since the diehards like us are limited,
Heck I went to some Rockets games this year that had cheaper prices than our football or basketball games and they have a great team.
2 Likes
I totally agree with this. I don’t sit up there, but getting up there was a deterrent; no facilities was the end of considering for me.
2 Likes
Billboards would be cool. Curious, but did UH do any post game promo?
My basis is obviously TCU, but they have done well promoting the brand. After the Rose Bowl, TCU ran full page ads thanking the people of Los Angeles for their gracious hosting. They did it after another big bowl as well. It was well received. If UH did something thanking Coog fans and Houstonians for showing up and supporting local, it could be a nice little touch with connecting to the community.
1 Like
Marketing 101, perception can be more powerful than reality.
How much did you pay for the Rockets tickets if you do not mind my asking? Are you now considering becoming season ticket holder for the Rockets?
TCU is savvy, smart and aggressive. UH- not so much, but we can improve.
2 Likes
Just make the games affordable and win of course and people will come.