Not relevant. The job changed, and other ADs adjusted. He didn’t, and that’s completely on him - it’s not just some unfortunate circumstance. I’m not going to give a guy making that kind of money a pass for coasting along doing things the “old” way. If he couldn’t pick it up, he should have resigned, but he turned into an excuse guy more than a solutions guy.
You can rely on a big donor to put UH on the map with the other top teams so the stadium can be filled with customers, but I still believe fans doing their part would be more likely road to long term success.
As we know, it is not just one recruiting cycle for success as UH has had many good years, but without it being sustained, the attendance still drops back down. So who is this one donor that is going to step up and fund the football team better than other top teams for the next decade to get a sustained fan base?
I prefer to see fans and not just customers in the stands.
By that logic, the other teams that were left out were way more deserving because they were in the southwest conference longer than we were.
And considering our inept administration, I don’t think deserve is a valid reason.
In any event, the person I was replying to said that we were always in the Southwest conference, which is most definitely not the case
If you win and win consistently then they will come. Look at basketball it took awhile but now its sold out. I remember sitting in a arena with maybe 500 people in it. When football starts to win more consistently the attendance will correct itself.
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This is correct, remind us how many conference championships in football we’ve won in the last 40 years.
None of this is new. The largest number of home game tickets sold was about 275,000.
In 1967.
The Astrodome was new, we beat Michigan St. to become ranked #2 Nationally. Our student body was loaded with Baby Boomers who had been big time attendees of High School football games.
Our drive time from far flung suburbs is a negative. The obvious solution has been correctly cited hereon thousands of times. We need more beds around campus and a redevelopment of the UH area. Literally $Billions of redevelopment.
Yes, winning is necessary. Fritz will fix that problem. But UH must feel like “Home” to its students, not just a place to get a Degree then move on.
It’s going to be a lot sooner than that for most of us Boomers.
IMO the model of fans funding NIL is not sustainable. Joe 100k/yr Moe isn’t going to buy off on giving his $$$, on top of the cost of tixs, so we can have a 18ry old QB making $1M+…not going to happen. Without massive Corporate sponsorship and support the idea of competing at a major D1 level is a pipe dream
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I agree Aldine with one exception; people don’t need to give any justification for not renewing other than hey don’t want to for what ever reason they may have, nor do they need to explain what it is.
We have tickets but nothing is certain for us oldies
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I would venture to say most of us are in the same boat, I didn’t work my way through night school because I didn’t want to use my dad’s millions. I am also a first generation graduate and I never got rich. I made enough for a comfortable living and retirement. Not too many graduates make millions, certainly not most of us that actually work in the engineering field. Now that I am retired, I am doing what I can and NIL isn’t in the cards.
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At OU, you can get Mini plan tickets for as low as $460 for three games (UH, Tenn and SCar).
Yeah, I just hope I can make it from season to season.
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In the near future I predict a massive change in how fundraising is handled. Sure right now Joe 100k/yr Moe isn’t going to give more on top of ticket prices, but what that lets say $1250 Joe gives to Cougar Pride goes to NIL instead and is still required to buy tickets, and the athletic department figures out how to make it work with corporate sponsorships and the like. Think about it what if every 50/50 or 46er gives that to NIL instead.
At Texas, their ticket prices are ginormous for SEC games, but you can get a pretty price for Colorado St and UTSA. Those are the type of games I can afford right now. I’d love to go watch them play Georgia (brother is a horns fan), but not for $450 to sit in the stratosphere of DKR
Not really that type of change, though there could be change in response to NIL
NIL cannot come from the school so adding it to ticket prices will not happen. NIL was specifically for athletes to be able to have a job and earn money from their name in marketing and advertising or autographs and such. The collectives are mutations of trying to pay players under the guise of NIL. I also agree with the earlier post that the average person is not going to maintaining paying into collectives for players making a bunch of money.
The impact will come from when schools start paying the players the roughly $20 million from revenue that is being discussed. In that part, the schools can tack on donation fees for tickets like they do now. Of course as fees go up, so does the amount the players get as a percentage and schools raise the cap. As prices go up, ticket sales will drop. Fundraising will impact this area, but again how many small donors will continue to give once the players are making a bunch of money, and in some cases more than the donors.
Expanding beds on campus is something they have been very aggressive with. I was an RHA executive and RA from 2002-2004 and back then we started with 3000 beds. Also being in RHA allowed me to spend time in the dorms at OU, OSU and Minnesota and let me tell you they were dumps.
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What is with the suburb excuse. Yes, in this case it is an excuse IMO.
How many fans of Alabama, Ohio St, Michigan, Texas, A&M or any other school such as Oklahoma St, NC State, Virginia Tech all live within 30 minutes or less drive to the stadium? Heck A&M probably has 40,000 driving from Houston area to College Station.
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FIFY.
TCU and Baylor would not have been invited. The PAC had a thing against religious schools and R2 schools.
Just ask BYU!