(12-11-2012 09:21 PM)Caltex2 Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 01:19 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  For a BBall game in Dec in football crazy Texas. In case you hadn't notice, Texas still has HS football playoff games. Some people will grasp at straws. Oh well

It appears you are. You use attendance and TV ratings as a barometer for popularity on one hand but throw it out when it doesn't favor your PoV. Even if basketball isn't very popular around here (and it obviously isn't), that's inexcusable attendance for a school that supposedly owns the Houston market.

It's freaking BBall in the state of Texas in Dec. You coog fans keep changing the goalposts to fit your agenda. 1st attendance does not accurately reflect the support that UH gets in Houston( 27K in the stands means so many more are at home watching on TV right?).

OK, so they move onto this article (which by the way is completely inaccurate. It appears it was written by the UH President who is pretty good at not telling the whole truth) http://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmoney/...f-houston/. Coog fans run from web site to web site posting how valuable they are and how the UH-USM, Tech-UH games are the norm in Houston and brag about how they beat Baylor and mighty Texas Longhorns 1 time in TV ratings. So I post accurate numbers from the Houston Chronicle and the freaking whining starts again. Well we don't get to play on a major network in prime time and once we get our big new shiny BE TV deal, we will compete with UT and A&M. You mean the same BE schools that UH fans wouldn't show up for or watch in CUSA? Now, they want us to believe that because they have a new conference playing the same old schools from the past will automatically help them with attendance and TV ratings. Give me a break. People aren't stupid.

If the Big 12, SEC, Big 10 or PAC 12 thought the schools residing in Houston were worthy, 1 of those conferences would have already invited them. I think the TV execs and Conference commissioners are seeing the same thing that I see in the Houston Chronicle

But hey lets all sing kumbaya and laugh at UT to make our selves feel better because they only brought 3K fans to a December BBall game in the state of Texas.