Good idea, thanks
Considering I’m a minority that played high school football for former UH player who was my coach, I can understand where you are coming from.
I didn’t play HS football for a rural school like in Friday Night Lights but it was a high school with a 70% minority student body in an old run down stadium.
When former coach Art Briles came to my high school to recruit a few of my fellow teammates back in the mid 2000s, he didn’t care much about your background or upbringing.
As long as we dressed professional and had our admission documents in order, he would consider arranging some UH admissions counselors to come by our school to recruit upperclassmen athletes.
If you played high school ball in the 2000s, UH hosted the high school combine for football to get looked at by scouts.
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indeed!!
Here you go folks.
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Here you go what?
(Looks at post about tonights great attendance)
(Checks thread hours later)
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Because the glass is never half full around here.
This and it sucked when UH was majority white students. Not an excuse
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Yes, the long paragraphs contain the justifications, logic, and facts supporting our racism, errrr…opinions. 
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I chose UH for its diversity.
Didn’t want to go to a place where everyone looked the same.
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Same. When I was making my decision I visited Texas A&M and UH campuses on the same day. First time I’d been to either campus. I had academic scholarship offers from both.
It was the easiest decision I ever made. I knew within minutes that UH was home.
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I changed my license plate to “FERTITTA” now I park for free wherever I want
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Put your money . . . . . step up, buy one or two of those grey seats and fill it every game . . . . .
Maybe two of them would have been students . . . . .
i wish they would thought about that when the did the renovation and put the other side for the tv sideline shot.
They did not want to put the BMDs in with the help/support staff . . . . .
Don’t remember any other than white’s attending BB games at Delmar and the place was generally full when Elvin, Don and the gang were playing. One reason the Hoff was nicknamed “the house that Hayes built” . . . . . Then, years later, many of the years until GVL left, games were well attended and again I don’t remember a lot of minorities, with the exception of one Egyptian/Arab looking guy who kept screaming “Guy’s gotta go” . . . . . But my memory is not that great.
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It was me and this is being taken completely out of context and blown out of proportion. There were studies to back up what I was saying of who watched college football and it was overwhelmingly whites and African-Americans. Hispanics watch football as well but more of the pro variety versus college.
I was just using data as an argument when someone tried to say we should be just as successful as LSU. It was one of many points I was making about demographics, commuter school, saturation of other big time college football programs in Texas versus one major program in Louisiana. We also were in G5 status for nearly 30 years.
Demographics was just one part of my point. Nobody ever said minorities don’t watch football.
Sheesh.
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Yeah, my statement mainly pertains to football…basketball drew well albeit we played at Delmar…of course that changed when we opened the Hof and the bigger crowds came…
Hispanics watch college football. I see a lot of Hispanics at our football games so that’s false that they don’t. I’d say whites ,blacks and Hispanics attend our games and if we win more , they will all be there. UTSA is mainly Hispanic and they have decent attendance when good.
They are completely sold out.
It wasn’t you.
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The problem we have in America is that people often confuse the words many and lot to mean everyone. They see that as a slam at their whole ethnic group when it is definitely not. But, here in America, being offended is in vogue and many (there’s that word again) are looking to be offended.
Can you honestly tell me that a kid that grew up loving soccer, in a family that loved soccer, will suddenly become an avid football fan? Some may, but, in my opinion, the odds are against it.
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I agree with the lack of precision in word use, but in this case we are talking about enough to blame low attendance on I dont think this is a case you can blame on ethnic groups. There are plenty of other reasons for it.
And in my experience, people who love sports lobe other sports when given the opportunity. Blaming soccer is quite the stretch.
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