(11-01-2010 10:56 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 10:41 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 10:33 AM)buckaineer Wrote:  Houston is looking at building a brand new football stadium with much higher capacity. Their current stadium doesn't hold much more if any more than that average. I wouldn't go to basketball games either if the league games consisted of teams like ECU and Tulane and Southern Miss. In the Big East, their attendance would increase as it has for every team added to the league.

I think Houston would rather play in Reliant Stadium for a few years first and rebuild the base before building a stadium. The reason they moved back on-campus was the declining numbers in the Astrodome as a result of the collsapse of the SWC.

Forget Houston. Don't even think about them for the Big East.

Houston's attendance in the Astrodome was always lousy. Awhile back someone posted a link to a media guide with their reported historical attendance figures. Even in the 1970s when they were winning the SWC and going to the Cotton Bowl, they only had good home attendance when they hosted Texas or Texas A&M and (sometimes) Arkansas. Otherwise they were reporting under 20,000 per game.

The city of Houston is an NFL town first, a Longhorn town second, and an Aggie town third. The Houston Cougars couldn't get any traction with football fans in their city even when they were playing in a major conference and had one of the best teams in the country.

The University of Houston is making major strides and has a lot of money to spend (i.e. to build a new stadium). They are on the BEasts radar so it doesn't matter what we think here. Many BE areas have pro teams in them. Pitt, Cincy, USF, Rutgers, etc. etc.