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Student section from SFA. Couldn’t find a panoramic shot of the stadium. But the rest of the stadium was not near as full.
https://x.com/rolandb3/status/1961217462701007345?s=46
You can actually see the student section filling up before gametime. Even the student sections on the second level were full by the end of the first quarter. Can’t say the same for the rest of the stadium.
Great. Where were those fans yesterday?
This is what the AD needs to figure out. Building student attendance for every game is the way to build a deeper fanbase.
It seems like the attitude toward finding out why they haven’t showed up the last two games is “hey, look how awesome they were a few weeks ago.” That doesn’t accomplish anything.
Asleep. Students don’t like 11am games. But like I’ve said, students have shown up to non-11am games this year. Alumni have only shown up for tech.
That’s the lazy answer, and it almost guarantees that those same fans will skip going to games when they leave school.
I guess students at other schools don’t sleep in and do like 11 am games?
No. But for UH standards, the students have done well across the entire season.
Alumni have done what they always do. Show up for the opponent.
The 11am games don’t sell as well as the 7pm ones. Students might still be sleeping at 11am.
I normally stay up until about 2:00 or 3:00am and get up between 10:00 and 11:00am. Getting to the 11:00am game requires me to get up at 8:00am and leave home by 8:45 to get to the stadium by 9:30 thereby beating the traffic around UH.
Surely, the students 60 years younger than me can get up by 10:00am and walk over to the game. Well, if they are hung over, it may be harder.
Same place as our alumni, home.
You have to Market the hell out of a product in this City, UH does not do that, it has been this way since forever.
I would like to know what the season ticket coubt was between 2009-2011 during the Keenum era. We were selling out Robertson every game. That was about 15 years ago and now seems we are down from that number if cant regularly sell out 32,000 at TDECU. We need to get back to around 32,000. When we knocked down Robertson we were averaging sell out and there was demqnd now struggle getting 32,000. We lost fans over that time?
I am hopeful that the new Freshman dorm will allow the Cougar Brass and The Frontiersmen to wake them up and walk to TDECU. It is not far as shown on the campus map. The Brass could also make a pass by other Campus Dorms. I think the Brass and the Frontiersmen are an underutilized resource that could fill a very important role of herding Cats (students) toward the Stadium. The same process could be used for other Mens/Womens sports venues. Also,please Max out Social media announcements where the young folks get their information.
Go Coogs !
Our students have JOBS. The big disconnect in your traditional vs non-traditional school debate is MONEY. A high percentage of our students work, so Saturday morning is not ideal for a game. When I worked when I was in school I had to ask off 4 weeks out so a 6 day hold would have never been in the cards. It’s also why we had no trouble filling the students section on Thursday and Friday nights because that is their socializing time anyways.
Kids rarely socialize nowadays.
Back at Robinson the Fronteirsman use to pull the Blaze around campus sounding it off before the game.
We sold more tickets in the 1960’s than we do now,and the student body was in the 25,000 range.
Our Alums do not live anywhere near the Campus. It is a long commute,and somewhat expensive.
At 11 a.m. and with the game on TV, it is just easier to stay home.
There wasn’t near as much competition for entertainment in the 60s plus the Astrodome was still new so there was some novelty with that. That faded away very quickly as we couldn’t even average 30k in 1971 with a top 20 squad.
In 1971 we drew almost 55,000 for The Bluebonnet Bowl.
Night game. Top opponent. The team was 9-2.
The casual City of Houston fan attended that game. Not students.
54 years later do we attract the casual Football fan?
That was pretty normal for the blue bonnet bowl back then. But to answer your question, no we don’t draw much general interest from casual fans. I think the irony with the city is the population boom in Houston actually hurt our attendance. Made it harder to get to games because of traffic and greater sprawl.
They all drive to college station and Austin for games lol
That sounds terrible.
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