UH is as Good as it Can Afford?

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Is UH is good as it can be based on the financial support it receives from the university and through third party NIL? From the Athletic article I posted this week, UH is in the middle of the pack in the B12 on the cost of it’s football roster. Texas Tech was #1 in the B12 by a wide margin. To challenge for a CFP spot, you have to have elite talent at multiple positions

Below is a chart from FootballScoop.com on the going rate for elite talent by position. It does not appear that UH’s NIL is anywhere close to being where it needs to be to field a CFP caliber team. It amazes me what Fritz and Company have accomplished with a limited budget. You want a better pass rush? Elite edge rushers go for $1.7M. OTs are $1.3M. Corners and safeties are $1M each.

In the current environment of college athletics, only a handful of universities have the financial capability of fielding a CFP caliber team. Until there is a fundamental change in college athletics, UH will need to be satisfied with doing more with less.

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Price is just what someone is willing to pay, if it’s not an open unconstrained market.

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More than handfull and money does not buy you a title. Indiana got the title last year and were not even close to what others paid.

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Tech spends 2 times as us. One report showed tech in the 40 mil range and UH at 20 mil or so. This could be that 20 mil we have to pay like all others in p4 per the ncaa settlement.

Per last night, we are getting our money’s worth and they aren’t.

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Who won the game?

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Until we find another Tillman Fertitta, yes.

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It’s only year 3 of Fritz and he’s already shown he can compete with the best in the B12. I think it’s premature to have an existential crisis.

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UH did not get its money’s worth from the edge rushers and cornerbacks last night.

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I can’t believe some of you negative nellies.

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Seen these numbers a few times.

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I often wonder how accurate these estimates are.

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According to a lot of our fans it is wildly wrong as we only spend $52.75 while tech has a budget of 3.4 billion.

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I suspect that college football fans will know how much each college FB teams’ players salaries are…about the same time that we ever learn the salaries of former college players like Earl Campbell & Vince Young.

In other words, that will never ever happen.

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Texas Tech spent twice as much on their roster as UH. Yet, we were 1 1/2 inches to the goal line that would’ve sent the game into overtime for a potential win… In Lubbock.

Having money is great, but building a culture with the right leadership is the formula for winning championships, not just money. See Indiana.

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Y’all definitely aren’t overthinking a two-point road loss in a difficult environment against a team with a better roster.

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He has a good point. Another 20 million would have made the ball 3 inches longer.

Print it!

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I enjoyed watching the UH-TT game at the Wakefield Crowbar. It’s a great place in my old neighborhood. And post game, I picked up a 1/2 dozen hot Shipley donuts on Ella Blvd. at 34th.

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i agree. UH got lucky to be in the current big12. If it woulda stayed in a G6 conference it would never get the money to compete and if they got an sec invite, they would be swamped by the real money players. in the big12, UH can make it to the cfp and then hopefully make a run with its limited financial resources.

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Your article is trying to correlate winning with how much money is spent.
If your article was correct uta would have won the last sixty National Championships. Money helps but what is the determining factor is outstanding Coaching and a ton of luck.
This article reminds me of video games where you can decide the outcome. It never works like that. If it did…again a team in Austin would have won the previous sixty National Championships.
atm is another example of why these articles mean little to nothing.

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While money doesn’t buy a national championship, it does allow a program to recruit the requisite talent to elevate that program into the Top 25 and give it a realistic chance to compete for a Natty!

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