If those schools are on the table for the students, the counselors are making the right call. They’re advisors, not fans. If we want them to steer kids toward UH we need to make UH a better option.
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I understand your statement, but lets not blame Alumni from Houston where UH was their 2nd or 3rd choice.
Bringing in big names is fine and certainly helps with drawing big crowds, but at the same time the Coogs better be very good, ranked and competing for championships or the crowds will be visitors…
Colorado is not good and they keep coming. If you want to compete for the championship, we have to go buy superstars, that is the only solution in the NIL era.
Colorado has a loyal fan base. They were still averaging 50k in 2019 after they’d had 13 losing seasons in 14 years. If we had a run like that we’d be lucky to get 15k.
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Nebraska has a similar fanbase…
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Nebraska school is in a small town
Yeah, I think the big problem we have to overcome is that Houstonians prefer three other football teams to the Coogs. There are a very large number of non-alumni in this town – whether they just didn’t go to college, or went to one without major football, or whatever – that would rather watch UT or A&M on TV or in a sports bar than attend a UH game in-person. I’m not sure how you square that circle.
We can’t compare UH (in the 4th largest metro) to ANY school in a small town. Period. What else is there to do in Lubbock or Lincoln?
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Or flagship state schools.
For what it’s worth, Lincoln and Lubbock are approaching Cincinnati in city-limits population pretty quickly. Not exactly the backwaters you’re chalking them up as.
Lubbock metro: 360,104
Cincinnati metro: 2.3 million
City limits? Are you trying to Cullen us? Saying that the inner loop is what we should be using to compare with?
I’m just saying, they’re double the size of places like College Station, Tuscaloosa, etc. Not exactly Centerville.
This is going to offend some of you but here goes.
We have a ton of unsold tickets for every game. Let’s create a block of say 300 tickets that we will use at every game until we start selling out the stadium consistently. No take backs.
I would distribute them to the counselors, band directors and ADs of the private schools in Houston. Oh here it comes but listen. I am playing the odds. HISD is a mess. There are higher percentages of college bound students in the private schools. This is a recruiting program not a charity. Let the high schools use them as rewards. At least qualified candidates will be introduced to the school and the stadium looks fuller.
Recruiting is marketing. Gaining the support of the average Houstonian is marketing. Don’t we still have a business school? Can’t the marketing professors be enlisted to address the problem and our needs? Seems like it would be a great project for a grad student.
There has been a lot of criticism of our pregame activities and our tailgating. Is the Hilton College froze at the controls? They should be embarrassed that the premier hospitality school tolerates such a dismal failure at their doorsteps.
I was a Greek 1966-70. To my amazement people now want a Greek system. I never saw any support of the system when I was an undergrad. A fraternity needs a building with a meeting/party room, a kitchen, parking and maybe rooms for 6-12 members to live. Quit looking at Ole Miss and Alabama. Think barndominium. The school probably could find a track that could support a number of these type buildings. Have a huge common parking lot. Small efficiency units(upstairs) could be rented and defer some of the debt service. They are metal buildings with a nice facade.
I will hang up and listen.