(04-12-2011 06:28 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:53 PM)NTXCoog Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:38 PM)NashvillePirate Wrote:  What's funny about the UH renderings is that they actually have fans in their stadium! Not very accurate if you ask me.....

But WAIT!!!! I forgot, when UCONN comes to Houston everyone in town will quit watching the Big 12 South and rush to watch the Coogs!!

An ECU fan trying to be funny. FAIL! I guess you missed last season where every game but one was a sell out and it was within 1k.

BTW: Houston is a city. In fact it's a very large city. It's not a town. I know that's confusing, but that's one reason UH is being considered. We actually have a large city which makes for a large TV market.

And we have something called a real football stadium, filled with 50k real ECU football fans every week. When was the last time there were 50k Houston fans at any football game (notice I emphasized Houston fans so you don't try to pull a Rice and count UT fans as your own)?

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/hou/...41-208.pdf Page 189

Besides the Texas Bowl against TCU, the last time UH played in front of 50K in Houston was 1981 against #5 UT in the Astrodome. 52K plus.

(04-12-2011 03:41 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 03:23 PM)KnightTower Wrote:  Its a formality. They discuss those things at EVERY meeting. There's almost no reason to think this has anything to do with the Big East.

It's a formality because those are the statutory exceptions to the open meeting requirement. Those are the provisions you cite in Texas when you want to go behind closed doors.

The UH BOR needed to talk about something in private TODAY. Something that could not wait until the mid-May meeting.

executive sessions generally deal with personnel matters

is some bigwig getting ready to be hired or fired?

The Big East has consulted with Paul Tagliabue about starting a Big East network. They most certainly sought his opinion re: the TV value of all the expansion candidates.

Likewise, I'm sure the Big East in its negotiations with ESPN has determined which expansion candidates, if any, add the most value to the TV contact.

So, if East Carolina or Memphis or UCF or Houston or Temple comes out smelling like a rose after all that study and gets a Big East bid, so be it.

Whatever direction the Big East goes, we'll all know that the schools left out were weighed and measured but found wanting.

(04-12-2011 03:02 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  The UH Board of Regents meets quarterly. The last regular meeting was in February. The next regular meeting is in mid-May.

Today, the UH BOR called a special meeting. This is unusual in and of itself.

What's more unusual is that, as a state school, UH BOR meetings are supposed to be public. There are several statutory exceptions to the public meeting rule, like meeting with attorneys.

Today's agenda invoked several of these statutory exceptions. In essence, the UH BOR is meeting in secret today.

While they can deliberate in secret, they cannot vote in secret. So no votes will be taken today. But clearly, something is being discussed that the UH BOR does not want disclosed at the moment.

Maybe it has nothing to do with the Big East. Maybe it's a coincidence. Just thought it was interesting nonetheless.

I really hope this meeting is about BE membership and not about cutting programs. You know, Texas has a budget crisis just like all the other states. If the UH truck driving academy were to be shut down then interstate shipping could be severely affected.

Just kidding, Coogs!

=D

Lonestar Lizard wrote:
I really hope this meeting is about BE membership and not about cutting programs. You know, Texas has a budget crisis just like all the other states. If the UH truck driving academy were to be shut down then interstate shipping could be severely affected.
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We are not even in the BIg East and this little froggy is already trash talking. Nice, I like it...

(04-12-2011 07:10 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  The Big East has consulted with Paul Tagliabue about starting a Big East network. They most certainly sought his opinion re: the TV value of all the expansion candidates.

Likewise, I'm sure the Big East in its negotiations with ESPN has determined which expansion candidates, if any, add the most value to the TV contact.

So, if East Carolina or Memphis or UCF or Houston or Temple comes out smelling like a rose after all that study and gets a Big East bid, so be it.

Whatever direction the Big East goes, we'll all know that the schools left out were weighed and measured but found wanting.

Respectfully disagree. Nothing has shown me that the Big East uses any type of logic and has a very poor understanding of the nature of college football. I wouldn't automatically assume that they have done their homework.

Definition of Due Diligence. Dart board.... Meet Dart. :0)

(04-12-2011 06:47 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 06:28 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:53 PM)NTXCoog Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:38 PM)NashvillePirate Wrote:  What's funny about the UH renderings is that they actually have fans in their stadium! Not very accurate if you ask me.....

But WAIT!!!! I forgot, when UCONN comes to Houston everyone in town will quit watching the Big 12 South and rush to watch the Coogs!!

An ECU fan trying to be funny. FAIL! I guess you missed last season where every game but one was a sell out and it was within 1k.

BTW: Houston is a city. In fact it's a very large city. It's not a town. I know that's confusing, but that's one reason UH is being considered. We actually have a large city which makes for a large TV market.

And we have something called a real football stadium, filled with 50k real ECU football fans every week. When was the last time there were 50k Houston fans at any football game (notice I emphasized Houston fans so you don't try to pull a Rice and count UT fans as your own)?

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/hou/...41-208.pdf Page 189

Besides the Texas Bowl against TCU, the last time UH played in front of 50K in Houston was 1981 against #5 UT in the Astrodome. 52K plus.

Woohoo! Another anti-UH post from notJeff. Do you ever bring up negative posts about other schools when you just "post the facts"? Do you every bring up anything positive about UH when you just "post the facts"?

Of course not.

(04-13-2011 08:42 AM)NTXCoog Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 06:47 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 06:28 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:53 PM)NTXCoog Wrote:  

(04-12-2011 05:38 PM)NashvillePirate Wrote:  What's funny about the UH renderings is that they actually have fans in their stadium! Not very accurate if you ask me.....

But WAIT!!!! I forgot, when UCONN comes to Houston everyone in town will quit watching the Big 12 South and rush to watch the Coogs!!

An ECU fan trying to be funny. FAIL! I guess you missed last season where every game but one was a sell out and it was within 1k.

BTW: Houston is a city. In fact it's a very large city. It's not a town. I know that's confusing, but that's one reason UH is being considered. We actually have a large city which makes for a large TV market.

And we have something called a real football stadium, filled with 50k real ECU football fans every week. When was the last time there were 50k Houston fans at any football game (notice I emphasized Houston fans so you don't try to pull a Rice and count UT fans as your own)?

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/hou/...41-208.pdf Page 189

Besides the Texas Bowl against TCU, the last time UH played in front of 50K in Houston was 1981 against #5 UT in the Astrodome. 52K plus.

Woohoo! Another anti-UH post from notJeff. Do you ever bring up negative posts about other schools when you just "post the facts"? Do you every bring up anything positive about UH when you just "post the facts"?

Of course not.

Does continuing to feed the troll do any good? Of course not.
Ignore him.

So how'd the meeting go?

Capped tuition raises to 7% for undergrads and 9% for grads.

Glad I have already completed my Masters.

(04-13-2011 09:00 AM)KnightTower Wrote:  So how'd the meeting go?