Houston, You have a problem: BYU vs UH

[Art Vandelay]

I had a few Houston games on the DVR and I was bored last night.

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You are the one person on this board, where porn might actually be healthier addiction.

[Moliere]

As far as crowd attendance is concerned....we live in metro area with 6 million plus folks with all kind of entertainment activity with Professional football teams, unlike some other places...so poeple here have many options to spend there dollar.I been in this town many years attended many games.. I've attended games with 87,000 people in attendance with 15,000 in attendance...people here will not go unless the program is winning making some noise nationally ..and antoher thing we loss our natural rivals UT, TAMU Texas Tech, etc.....UT and A&M won't play us,,,but they'll play lowly Rice Univeristy I wonder why? Because they know it's not a easy win. Football has become TV event now...with our games being on T.V. now a lot of people buy tickets, then stay home to watch the game..to lazy to get off the a** to come.

There really isn't that much to do here, really, there isn't.

[BIgCatonProwl]

Some of you guys want to be sarcastic..fine with me....just letting you know who we are, we are not any pushover. BYU has a rich sport tradition no doubt but we do too at UH, and it runs deep....that's all I'm saying. I know some of you guys..not all of you have Notre Dame itis disease.

[Pheidippides]

There really isn't that much to do here, really, there isn't.

it's almost like he doesn't realize that some of us live in Houston and know exactly what the status of UH is. I hear they have one of the nation's top creative writing programs, so there is that.

[LiveCoug]

Doesn't change the facts i said we split a 2 games series with them; year doesn't matter

Except it was a 3 game series which you lost 2-1

2010 UCLA 31 UH 13
2011 UH 38 UCLA 34
2012 UCLA 37 UH 6

[Cougar King]

Big Cat on Prowl's posts are painful to read. That being said, it doesn't matter what you think of us. The tickets sold is currently near 40k and counting in addition to a potential good number of walkups. The BYU side however has quite a few empty seats, that can change between now and kickoff but I think it i safe to say that the ratio will be somewhere between 2:1 to 3:1 in favor of the Coogs.

[Flystripper]

Some of you guys want to be sarcastic..fine with me....just letting you know who we are, we are not any pushover. BYU has a rich sport tradition no doubt but we do too at UH, and it runs deep....that's all I'm saying. I know some of you guys..not all of you have Notre Dame itis disease.

Actually, most of us have just the sniffles and we wish it is Notre Dameitis.

[BIgCatonProwl]

Such is life for a University in a big city. That's the point I was making in my earlier post the Memphis game was a sell out at that stadium which is the Houston Dynamo stadium a MLS soccer team only holds 20k ... dirty little secret about only 15k showed up, they buy tickets, but don't show up, it was televised, lazy fans stayed home. You guys have to understand we have no natural constituency other than our alumni and the citizens of Houston whom a lot of follow pro football the Texans, we have professionals from around the country who've attended other universities, who hold no allegiance to UH. BYU you have a natural constituency in the followers of Church of the Latter Day Saints. We are playing in 3 different stadium venues this year, because of the new stadium construction , 40k capacity. UTSA game was in San Antonio not Houston. Again I repeat fans will show up if they are making noise in the media...simple as that. Had a losing season last year..still having hang over from that. Studies show the greatest predictor of increased fan attendance, is winning. Not whining just giving some fact about the matter much harder for schools in big cities than it is for them in small towns that's just the fact. Not whining just being factual. 30k-35k may be small to you but we are talking college ball in a big city, SMU,Rice, and until recently TCU experienced the same problem...let TCU start losing consistently see how fast those seats will be empty at the stadium...I know I'm from Fort Worth.

[smokymountainrain]

Some of you guys want to be sarcastic..fine with me....

Some? That's cute.

[BIgCatonProwl]

been real fun guys thanks for the interaction...all ways good to talk to real sport heads... I'm out...take care

[BIgCatonProwl]

Cougar King why painful..explain yourself. I'll read your post later

[TripletDaddy]

Tripledaddy I venture to say they will about 35-40K give or take (we had 35k for Rice game and Rice poeple don't go to football games, both schools in the same city)

Youve obviously never been to a UCLA game!

[Art Vandelay]

Youve obviously never been to a UCLA game!

Stop it! I just blew snot from snorting so violently, the lady in the car next to me looked over at me like I'm insane.

[Surfah]

Serious question: Does Houston have a rival? I know they hate Texas and they all say Texas is afraid of them and won't schedule them (). But do they have a true rival?

[cougjunkie]

Serious question: Does Houston have a rival? I know they hate Texas and they all say Texas is afraid of them and won't schedule them (). But do they have a true rival?

Yep a crosstown rival in Rice.

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