TDECU was built on a budget, we got what we paid for.
I thought people liked it when we built it, I guess that has changed.
We have a dump according to this site.
About $15 for a game a few weeks back and it was against a playoff team too in the lower bowl.
I used to share season tickets during the Harden years so I might rejoin.
If the Rockets can price it to where it is low enough to steal casual fans away from us, then we are in deep trouble in regards to building a fanbase to compete with local pro sports.
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Might need to update your top 10 list. San Jose is falling.
I bring it up as Fort Worth is moving into #10 and Austin is pushing for that spot as well.
TCU averaged about 43,300 in a 46,000 seat stadium and UT was much much higher. I do question if it is big city mentality or how the city grew with the school or not. Too late for UH to grow with the city, but wonder if there is more from those two cities that can be emulated. Also have not checked Arizona States attendance. Do not know if they are successful or not.
On the other hand, Northwestern is downsizing to 35,000 seats with their new stadium.
TDECU is exactly what we wanted doing exactly what we need it to do.
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I never had a problem with it when I could go to games. This site makes it sound like a POS however.
The people who complain about TDECU also complained that Robertson was a dump and wanted a new stadium.
Then we got a new stadium and they shifted to complaining about parking, weather, food, drinks, or things that has nothing to do with the stadium.
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A good price. I had season tickets a couple years way back (90s?).
I assume those are Rockets prices and not aftermarket. Even with low prices, the Rockets are still not in the top half of the league in attendance so not sure that proves it to be a successful technique for overall growth.
Not as worried about pro basketball stealing college football fans. How much are Texans tickets? That would be a more direct comparison.
Those Rockets prices are after market.
I only go to a few Texans games per year but I never pay more than $75 a ticket the past few years since I sit in 500s.
Aftermarket is irrelevant to the discussion of UH pricing. Aftermarket gets skewed as season ticket holders dump some games as they simply can’t make them or brokers unloading last minute or based upon win/loss and opponent.
What is the Texans price, not aftermarket? Texans seem to sell a lot of tickets and I don’t think they are cheap. as that is the direct correlation to UH prices.
Here is an article on pricing From 10 years ago, but it focuses on fan attendance in direct relation to ticket pricing and goes into the complex issues of pricing for sports… This is MLB but still relevant as it is official team pricing.
“The relationship between attendance and ticket price was found to be generally weak, and in disagreement with the basic law of demand—an indication that other factors are strongly affecting demand. In fact, across all of Major League Baseball since 1991, higher ticket prices have been accompanied by higher attendance figures. If one examines the relationship between average ticket price and raw attendance numbers since 1991, 540 qualifying non-near-sellout seasons of data are available.”
Saturday night after Christmas
Versus LSU (box office attraction)
Non-stop promotion & advertising on 610 and Texans programing
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Just had another thought on explaining my reasoning. Pricing and demand is different based on markets.
Common items such as rice. Price goes down on rice, people generally buy more of that and less of another product such as potatoes. basic economics.
Now if Rolex reduces the price of their watches to compete with Timex, is it still as big of a deal to get a Rolex or are they now just a more common watch. Price adds value and perceived quality.
Overkill on my thoughts, but that is why I don’t think lower ticket prices will help long terms sales. Lower concessions to balance out the over cost of attending a game.
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The Rolex situation is unique because the past 5 years, they are trying to move into the high end luxury when they are seen as a regular luxury brand with mass produced watches.
Everyone and their mother knows that they produce nearly 1 million watches a year.
Rolex will never reach the elite high end status like Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, or Vacheron Constantin which have watches starting at 30k plus.
They are more in line with the Omega, IWC, Cartier etc regular luxury level with prices in the 5k to 15k range.
We should not follow the DeBeers or Rolex playbook of fake scarcity to increase prices.
I would know this because I bought Rolex watches when you can just go to any authorized dealer and get them the same day pre 2020.
To compare it to UH football, the last thing we want to do is increase prices for UH football and fans turn on the TV and see lots of empty seats.
With the competition of pro sports being affordable to the casual people in Houston, let’s not overprice UH football.
If we decide to decrease the stadium capacity to say 30K and pair it with a consistent top 15 team, then I am all for increasing prices.
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I’m in the student center just about every single day to grab meals. I don’t see this anymore, but:
A few ways UH got students to come out to games:
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Having athletics post up at a table and hand out tickets. No account? No problem. Show your student ID, you get a ticket. Maybe even two or three to bring others out.
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When basketball attendance wasn’t doing so well, we (CV3) were given a bunch of flyers at the time. We went around the dorms and slid the flyers under every door, from CV1, CV2, to the Quad and Lofts. It was a Wednesday night game vs Tulane. The student section sold out. Every time we did that, the student section sold out. Boots on the ground worked.
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I’ve seen first timers say that it looks like a high school stadium.
On the inside, with the exception of the field and the video board, it kinda does.
If you think TDECU is a dump then I guess you haven’t been to Rice Stadium, the Cotton Bowl Stadium at the state fair, the Alamodome, the Rose Bowl, SMU’s stadium etc.
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If TDECU is why we can’t get attendance, UH needs to consider dropping football.
We’re not getting an air conditioned dome stadium with esclators, and If we did, this site would find something to gripe about that
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I don’t think it’s a dump, it just has some HS stadium vibes. I can imagine in another universe that had we been replacing TDECU while in the Big 12, the school would be pulling out a lot of stops.
The improvements I’ve noticed over the past eight to nine years are better food, a better sound system (you can hear it across campus), an oustanding video screen, and a damn good looking field. Don’t know what more to ask for, but even with the mindset in which the exterior was built, it looks ‘hunk-of-metaly’ vs ‘college football stadium’
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Our tickets are not expensive in comparison to other entertainment. Another very good point, resting and concessions need to be done for the 3rd level. Really inexcusable for this not too have been done by now.
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Idk don’t see? Never seen a highschool stadium look like TDECU, the look and vibe is pretty unique among stadiums, especially ones of its size.
Feels more like a cage than anything? Definitely not high school stadium vibes though lol.
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