actually, that is not the case squid. During the 30 years that the Coogs played in the Dome there were day/night games. they just didn't figure louisville would draw anyone, Maize knows that.

TopCoog Wrote:actually, that is not the case squid. During the 30 years that the Coogs played in the Dome there were day/night games. they just didn't figure louisville would draw anyone, Maize knows that.

It doesn't matter, you're Houston and we are not. Thank God.

Just more insecurity on your part Maize, if you really believed that you would "act like you've been there"

TopCoog Wrote:Just more insecurity on your part Maize, if you really believed that you would "act like you've been there"

Guess what Coog, WE HAVEN'T been there. We are the new guys on the block and as CBS Sportsline said we are the new National Power in college football and right now we are going to enjoy it. AHAHAHAHAHA

BTW it is pretty sad when you bring in the Mighty Miami Hurricanes and going get 36,000 in Reliant Stadium, you are just located in the 4th largest market in the country. You might as well have played that game at your HS Stadium.

Maize Wrote:

TopCoog Wrote:Just more insecurity on your part Maize, if you really believed that you would "act like you've been there"

Guess what Coog, WE HAVEN'T been there. We are the new guys on the block and as CBS Sportsline said we are the new National Power in college football and right now we are going to enjoy it. AHAHAHAHAHA

BTW it is pretty sad when you bring in the Mighty Miami Hurricanes and going get 36,000 in Reliant Stadium, you are just located in the 4th largest market in the country. You might as well have played that game at your HS Stadium.

Topcoog ist this true? Only 36,000 folks showed up for that game?
From the way you were talking about having to move the game to reliant Stadium, I was under the impression that you guys packed the house. How big is UH stadium? Its gotta be big enough to have handled 36,000 people. I would have expected at least a sellout for Miami. They draw wherever they go, except at the Orange Bowl.

cuseroc Wrote:

Maize Wrote:

TopCoog Wrote:Just more insecurity on your part Maize, if you really believed that you would "act like you've been there"

Guess what Coog, WE HAVEN'T been there. We are the new guys on the block and as CBS Sportsline said we are the new National Power in college football and right now we are going to enjoy it. AHAHAHAHAHA

BTW it is pretty sad when you bring in the Mighty Miami Hurricanes and going get 36,000 in Reliant Stadium, you are just located in the 4th largest market in the country. You might as well have played that game at your HS Stadium.

Topcoog ist this true? Only 36,000 folks showed up for that game?
From the way you were talking about having to move the game to reliant Stadium, I was under the impression that you guys packed the house. How big is UH stadium? Its gotta be big enough to have handled 36,000 people. I would have expected at least a sellout for Miami. They draw wherever they go, except at the Orange Bowl.

Here is the link. Like I said they might as well played that game in their HS Stadium.

Attendance is on the bottom of the stats. The Official Total was 36,698.

<a href='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/boxscores/2004/09/23/24054_boxscore.html' target='_blank'>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/...4_boxscore.html</a>

LOL you played a program like Miami at home and you only had 36,000? :eek: :laugh:
Miami plays at Louisville in 2006, definite sellout of 42,000+.

rocketfootball Wrote:

SO#1 Wrote:

Quote:#1 in the MAC in marketing and sponsorship revenue (twice as much as the #2 school, WMU)

#2 in the MAC in athletic fundraising

rocketfootball, do you have number for those? How many are in the booster club?
How are your other sports? Basketball and Olympic sports

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Athletic fundraising for the 2003-04 calendar year - $1.6 million

Marketing and sponsorship revenue - cash was just over $2.1 million in the 2003-04 calendar year and trade was about $700K for the 2003-04 calendar year

Not sure how many boosters we have. We do have a few wealthy boosters, but not many. Last year a retired booster donated just over $1 million to have our tennis courts and outdoor track renovated.


Men's basketball was 3rd in the MAC in attendance for the last 5 years, averaging 5,061 fans per game. Back in the 80's we used to average about 10K per game, but that number has slowly declined.

Women's basketball led the MAC in attendance for the last 5 years, averaging 2,491 fans per game.

Our arena, Savage Hall, seats about 10K but is quite old. A plan is in place to renovate the arena in the next couple of years.

Our men's basketball team is 88-64 since 2000. We have won the MAC West Division Title 3 times in the last 7 years and finished in 2nd place or better 6 of the last 7 years. We have played in the NIT 3 times since 1999 (1999, 2001, and 2004). Our basketball program is still not where it was in the late 70's and early 80's when we appeared in the NCAA tournament a couple of times and even advanced to the Sweet 16 in 1981. We are a long way from competing with the top teams in the Big East. However, we did beat Cincinnati in the Rock-N-Roll Shootout back in 2000. We also beat a ranked Michigan State, in East Lansing, in 2002.

Our women's basketball team ruled the MAC in the 90's and played in the NCAA's several times, but have been rebuiling a bit the last few years. Here are some recent records:

1995-96 - 25-6 (won MAC)
1996-97 - 27-4 (won MAC)
1997-98 - 24-7 (2nd in MAC)
1998-99 - 25-6 (won MAC)
1999-00 - 14-15
2000-01 - 25-6 (won MAC)
2001-02 - 17-11
2002-03 - 20-10 (2nd MAC)
2003-04 - 13-16
2004-05 - 15-15

We appeared in the NCAA's 6 times and the WNIT 3 times in 10 years of the 90's with a 237-74 overall record, the 13th best record in the country during the decade.


Our baseball and softball teams are not very good, but last year an indoor practice facility was constructed for those teams.

Our men's golf team has made it to the NCAA regionals 7 times in the last 8 years (this year was the one time we didn't make it). They have made the NCAA finals 4 times in the last 7 years (1999, 2001, 2002, and 2004). </span>

The rest of our sports haven't been very good.

Thank rocketfootball,

I notice your stadium is only 26,248. But you manage to squeeze in 32,012 averages in 2001. Is there any room to expand beyond that?
I check last year budget and it’s only $15,128,643 to fund and supports 392 student-athletes but there a typo for total revenue, only $2,121,983.

UConn Boosters, 7,738 strong raise over $16 millions dollars.

I like the ideal of having potential candidate beyond ECU, UCF and Memphis.

SO#1 Wrote:Thank rocketfootball,

I notice your stadium is only 26,248. But you manage to squeeze in 32,012 averages in 2001. Is there any room to expand beyond that?
I check last year budget and it’s only $15,128,643 to fund and supports 392 student-athletes but there a typo for total revenue, only $2,121,983.

UConn Boosters, 7,738 strong raise over $16 millions dollars.

I like the ideal of having potential candidate beyond ECU, UCF and Memphis.

Our last expansion in 1990 allowed for us to again easily expand the stadium to 42K. Now if we have to ever expand over that, a major renovation would need to be done. However, it would take quite a long time to have to expand past 42K, IMO.

TopCoog Wrote:we have two stadiums maize, one is not nearly as nice as yours, the other puts it to shame. We play our big games in Reliant, the others at Robertson. Miami, Oregon etc are played in Reliant, they obviously did not consider Louisville a big enough name to book you in there, sorry.

Coog,
You have two stadiums and sadly, you can't fill either one. Thats all you need to know about UH athletics at this time. BTW the Miami game was played in Reliant because of the Can fans interest. The Louisville game wasn't moved because by November the Cougars can't draw flies to their games. The Coogs could have been hosting USC and the place would have been void of Houston fans. There is an advantage to having Rice and Houston in the same conference. At least one CUSA game in Houston will be sold out each year; When they play each other. :laugh:
CJ

TopCoog Wrote:actually, that is not the case squid. During the 30 years that the Coogs played in the Dome there were day/night games. they just didn't figure louisville would draw anyone, Maize knows that.

Dome had fuzzy concrete as its surface, did it not? Also, this day in age with luxury boxes and TV, it just wouldn't be posible to do that.

TopCoog Wrote:actually, that is not the case squid. During the 30 years that the Coogs played in the Dome there were day/night games. they just didn't figure louisville would draw anyone, Maize knows that.

TopCoog:

Coog you kinda talked yourself into a corner here. It isn't Louisville or any other teams' responsibility to draw fans for you. It is Houston's responsibility. You have a metro area of about 4-5 million people--there is no excuse not to draw 40,000 on a regular basis playing a C-USA schedule.

Thats right mark but that wasn't the issue. By the way, whats the deal with the boy Scouts at Syracuse?

rocketfootball Wrote:

SO#1 Wrote:Thank rocketfootball,

I notice your stadium is only 26,248. But you manage to squeeze in 32,012 averages in 2001.&nbsp; Is there any room to expand beyond that?
I check last year budget and it’s only $15,128,643 to fund and supports 392 student-athletes but there a typo for total revenue, only $2,121,983.

UConn Boosters, 7,738 strong raise over $16 millions dollars.

I like the ideal of having potential candidate beyond ECU, UCF and Memphis.

Our last expansion in 1990 allowed for us to again easily expand the stadium to 42K. Now if we have to ever expand over that, a major renovation would need to be done. However, it would take quite a long time to have to expand past 42K, IMO.

My bad.......I meant 51K, not 42K. Our stadium expansion in 1990 was setup so that we could easily expand to 51K without having to tear anything down, just add to it.

TopCoog Wrote:Thats right mark but that wasn't the issue. By the way, whats the deal with the boy Scouts at Syracuse?

Coog: Political Correctness gone bad

The Liberal Campus Nazis feel offended that parents prefer not to shove gays onto young men as their mentors.

I hope all you syracuse fans will at least call and gripe. Let the social nazi's know you are there.

rocketfootball Wrote:

rocketfootball Wrote:

SO#1 Wrote:Thank rocketfootball,

I notice your stadium is only 26,248. But you manage to squeeze in 32,012 averages in 2001.  Is there any room to expand beyond that?
I check last year budget and it’s only $15,128,643 to fund and supports 392 student-athletes but there a typo for total revenue, only $2,121,983.

UConn Boosters, 7,738 strong raise over $16 millions dollars.

I like the ideal of having potential candidate beyond ECU, UCF and Memphis.

Our last expansion in 1990 allowed for us to again easily expand the stadium to 42K. Now if we have to ever expand over that, a major renovation would need to be done. However, it would take quite a long time to have to expand past 42K, IMO.

My bad.......I meant 51K, not 42K. Our stadium expansion in 1990 was setup so that we could easily expand to 51K without having to tear anything down, just add to it.

In the past 7 years, Toledo’s average attendance is the highest in the MAC (12) at 24,864 (95% of capacity). But Toledo’s stadium is the third smallest in the MAC (12) after Ball State (21,581) and Ohio (24K). Akron has the largest stadium over 35K but average only 11,600 in the past 7 years, 11th in the MAC (12). You guy should expand to at least 35K.

SO#1 Wrote:In the past 7 years, Toledo’s average attendance is the highest in the MAC (12) at 24,864 (95% of capacity). But Toledo’s stadium is the third smallest in the MAC (12) after Ball State (21,581) and Ohio (24K). Akron has the largest stadium over 35K but average only 11,600 in the past 7 years, 11th in the MAC (12). You guy should expand to at least 35K.

I would like to see an expansion, but unfortunately we also have games against teams like Eastern Michigan and Buffalo that end up being about 20K in attendance and the University is worried about seeing a half-empty stadium for some of our games.

We own the largest crowd in MAC history with 36,852 and the second largest MAC crowd with 36,502. For those games, and several other games, temporary bleacher seating was brought in. Below are the 10 largest crowds in UT history:


36,852 vs Navy (2001) *MAC Record*
36,502 vs Northern Illinois (2001)
34,950 vs Minnesota (2001)
34,900 vs Marshall (2000)
33,040 vs Indiana State (1994)
32,781 vs Weber State (2000)
31,981 vs Bowling Green (2004)
31,711 vs Pittsburgh (2003)
31,458 vs Bowling Green (1994)
31,369 vs Bowling Green (1982)

I don't see the Big East going after Toledo. They aren't even close to the facilites that the current Big East Members have.

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:I don't see the Big East going after Toledo. They aren't even close to the facilites that the current Big East Members have.

Ohio Bobcat I just have one thing to say to you. I want to thank you for beating up on the Kentucky Mildcats in Lessington last season.