Yeah I don’t understand it. Just get cheap seats. Home side grand stands are still a pretty good view. That’s where I’m going if I get priced out of my seats, which probably happens next year.
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Have you seen attendance for the Astros before 2015?
Have you seen the Rockets’ attendance since Harden left?
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I dont think you can read or analyze what the point of that post was.
Houston was in fact in the SWC with many other Big 12 schools for over 20 years… meaning we deserved to be in the Big 12 all along. Now we are in the Big 12, but we should have been in 1996.
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So blow everything up because we dont have support??? There are over 2M people in Houston, Houston is also located in a state that loves football, why cant we put 40,000 buts in seats?
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You would be totally justified for not renewing if Dana was returning, but not renewing when we have a great new coach coming in who is a proven winner makes no sense. AFTER he wins, it could be difficult to get decent seats, now is a better time to make sure you have them.
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We need to hire an AD that actually knows something about marketing and will do something about it…The 2 million people here dont magically come on their own. We have done absolutely NOTHING to put people in the stands. That needs to change with new AD hiring some people who will work to accomplish those attendance goals. It will help a whole bunch to put a winning competitive team on the field. Fritz will do that.
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We always had fickle fans.
Their is only so much the core of 15k can do.
Major flaw here. The lack of fans also means lack of NIL. Fans pay the NIL not the schools.
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I have been attending UH games since 1972 and most of those years I was a season ticket holder. For the first time in my life I am not excited about the upcoming season. I just can’t get excited about running the ball and losing. We are only projected to win 2 games, Rice and Baylor. Before anyone jumps my case, I’ve spent $7,000.00 on my season tickets this year.
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The point of my egg post was that we (fans and school) can control the fan side by being engaged and attending regardless of whether we like the coach or not or if they won enough games last season. Simply attend to visit with friends in the seats next to you, tailgate, walk around campus etc…
The school does need to help though. They need to develop good relations with current and potential fans which seems to be inconsistent. I know some of the guys working the phones in the ticket office have been great to work with, but I don’t see much else to make people feel welcome coming back for games. I am sure they are trying some stuff. But for example - once I had an issue with my TCU tickets an they had someone call me back - The person that called me back was Chris Del Conte, not even an underling. Things like that can go a long way to making someone feel appreciated. The AD spot will make a huge difference here if they work to keep fans in addition to just fundraise.
As fans simply getting tickets and attending does make a difference, otherwise you are just a customer that may or may not return.
Many of us are first generation grads at UH, we don’t have an inheritance, generational wealth, or daddy’s money around for NIL like people at private schools or bigger established state schools.
Basically many of us have go on a 99 yard touchdown drive to succeed since we don’t have financial support from parents while some people are starting at 1st and goal to score a touchdown.
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Seems like the core 20K diehards are the only ones UH is marketing to. Higher ticket prices, concessions, parking, tailgating…everything was monetized and raised by UH. You can only go to the well so many times.
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Wait until the boomers in the core of 20k can no longer go to games in the next decade.
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That’s me. I’m afraid I won’t be able to go to the games next year.
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Exactly, which is why UH fans need to attend (at whatever level ticket they can afford) and network together to build the fan base instead of relying on some donor to “buy” good players to attend in hopes that others will then buy tickets only because the team is good.
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I understand the temptation of equating home game attendance with NIL funding and there certainly can be a connection, but UH’s NIL can grow despite lackluster attendance. All it takes is one NIL mega-donor or generous corporation and your NIL is set for a recruiting cycle. Better NIL means, better recruiting, means more wins, means better attendance.
I am anxious to see what the new AD does to improve UH’s NIL program.
I’d argue that true NIL money should mostly be coming from people NOT at the games. The donors who are coming to games are probably already giving money at some level. This NIL deal has to be new money from new sources, or it will fail.
I think the failure to understand this and do something about it is why our previous AD was moved along.
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I don’t think Pezman was hired ever thinking that College Athletics was going to change so drastically.
People really underestimate how much things have changed, especially for UH.
- NIL
- Transfer Portal
- Big 12
When Pezman was hired, we were still in the AAC. I highly doubt anyone expected UH to be a Big 12 school at the time of his hiring.
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Speak for yourself. Plenty of people even thought we’d be in the Pac-12.
Ha ha! Not me.
If it weren’t for PAC12 incompetence, guarantee Tech, Okies, Frogs and Bears would be PAC12 schools right now.