Who Has the Most Generous Boosters

Football
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https://x.com/jjfuller72/status/1694193242756018553?s=46&t=ZflAtQu28mE4aUWNMrJBpQ

UH #65.

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Pfizer?

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Considering all the facilities UH built and being near the top in G5 coaching salaries during that time, I’d guess the USA Today contributions data is tied to ticket sales and not comprehensive.

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Now that we are “P5”, we should see a significant increase in giving.

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There we are, lowest in the conference at #65 with Cincy next lowest but still $14MM ahead of us. Yet our fans expect us to do better than anyone else in the conference. We are still the team that does more with less and more so than anyone in our conference.

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Notice Memphis logged in at $170 million; almost 2x ours ?

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Just reiterates that there is still a “commuter” school environment Vs a traditional university environment mindset among many of the former students and graduates

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Here is the actual data from USA Today. Imo, aggregating the numbers doesn’t tell an accurate story. With that said we need to grow ticket revenue and donations.

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NIL money will tip the scales. That isn’t AD revenue. We have some nice facilities. So does everyone else. The difference is NIL dollars, not gold-plated locker rooms.

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ouch. between Hawaii and Wyoming…
Found it interesting that Memphis was low. I thought they were swimming in FedEx money

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UH has squandered a lot of resources that it couldn’t afford to lose and made decisions that have put us at a disadvantage. Cincinnati and UCF would be more apt to use the more with less saying that us.

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91M is not even a 10th of farmer’s or cows.

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This is our weak spot and what will hold us back in getting wide donor support for
more NIL dollars. Unless a handful of big money donors(step up with annual donations
in millions of dollar.

We need a different type of student going forward or depend on the BMDs. We still
have a small core of season ticket holder accounts. And some of them will threaten to
pull their support over a coach or season W/L record.

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Considering the bulk of that is Tilman, we really need to pick it up.

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This why that Freshman “live on campus” initiative is so important.

Yes, there are outliers but those that live on campus are higher ROI in terms of donations, fan support, alumni involvement, legacy potential, etc.

Plus…requiring freshman to live on campus “could” help with development around the campus as it has with dozens of other example Universities.

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Dr. Khator advocated for freshman living on campus to enhance the college experience and got called on the carpet by State Senator Whitmire. The living on campus to establish student loyalty is a politically charged issue.

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I’m well aware of the politics on the residency mandate with exceptions. Lots of folks
here are against it for a number of reasons. Their reasons are not crazy or wrong; but there are
consequences from those that desire to keep UH the way it is for part time working students, guvmint mandates, costs, etc.

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There were so many exemptions that what Dr. Khator presented would have pleased everyone (for or against)

This was an Ego Power Trip by Sen. Whitmire. They way he treated Dr, Khator was embarrassing.

FYI- he is also running for mayor of Houston.

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We now have MANY satellite campus options, IN the University of Houston system, for those type of students.

We need to funnel to “traditional students” to the main campus.

We are almost a century old Public P5 University with continued growth projections…we need to act like it!!!

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I support the residency initiative, but many other alums here on this very board are against it.
Including our very own graduate, Whitmire. As I said, their reasons are not stupid or invalid or
crazy. They just have a different vision of what UH should be or become.

We could very well have a residency policy and still have students that venture out into the
city seeking their entertainment, and never bond to football games on campus as the big thing.
And even if the new students do become connected thru football, you are probably looking at decade or more to build up numbers of these new student graduates to being season ticket holders.
May be no quick fix. Win big and consistently and the city will come out; but that’s a hard thing to do. And it just got harder.

But no need to rehash the residency discussions, which seem to get redone every 6 months
on here without any real new information.