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RE: 12/2 AAC Basketball Games
This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.
12-03-2017 02:44 PM
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(12-03-2017 02:44 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.

It’s funny, while our crowds are usually really good, they ALWAYS arrive late, and the excuse is ALWAYS traffic. It is next to impossible for people living in the suburbs to get off work and make it to Moody by 7:00pm. But five to ten minutes into the game it will be full.
12-03-2017 02:56 PM
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(12-03-2017 02:44 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.

Bring back some 'Phi Slamma Jamma'... "Ray, people will come."

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(12-03-2017 02:44 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.


The last part Kinda reminds me of the xl center lol


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12-03-2017 03:02 PM
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Wichita State has some of the best fan support in the country which tends to skew some of our fans’ perspectives. Selling out a 7k arena is good as far as college basketball goes.
12-03-2017 03:07 PM
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(12-03-2017 02:44 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.

I understand the traffic issue up to a point. But Houston proper and the Houston metro area have so many freaking people, aren't there plenty of fans close enough that traffic isn't an issue for them?
12-03-2017 03:49 PM
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(12-03-2017 02:59 PM)WstateU Wrote:  
(12-03-2017 02:44 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  This will sound stupid to people who live in places like Wichita, but the two biggest things holding us back are 1) traffic and 2) not being good enough.

If you live and work outside the loop (the majority of the region), it can take well over an hour to get to a midweek game. People aren't going to deal with that hassle when the product is bad. We were offering mediocre at best basketball and a horrible venue. Hofheinz had become a real dump with broken seats, old bathrooms, terrible concessions, and no atmosphere.

Bring back some 'Phi Slamma Jamma'... "Ray, people will come."

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Even as an opposing fan, I had much respect for Houston during the Phi Slamma years.
12-03-2017 03:51 PM
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(12-03-2017 11:09 AM)Aargh Wrote:  After watching the SMU/USC game last night, I find it interesting that a SMU fan is ragging on a Houston fan for attendance. UH doesn't get many people to their games, but SMU WON'T LET many people go to their games. That gym is - let's call it - "cozy".

Then I heard it was recently renovated. YIKES! There has to be an incredible amount of pessimism about attendance to renovate a gym that size and leave the seating at that number. That place wouldn't hold what we just got for a freaking volleyball game.

Duke doesn't fit your point very well.
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(12-03-2017 03:49 PM)pvtlamb Wrote:  I understand the traffic issue up to a point. But Houston proper and the Houston metro area have so many freaking people, aren't there plenty of fans close enough that traffic isn't an issue for them?

I always thought one problem with fan support in places like Houston is despite the fact that it has a huge population, a lot of that has been immigration, particularly foreign. Not sure if newcomers from New York or Nigeria have much interest in Cougars sports.
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There are hundreds of thousands of people living near UH but those folks also live adjacent to Minute Maid (Astros), Toyota Center (Rockets), Dynamo Stadium, NRG (Texans), Rice, Texas Southern, HBU, and the restaurant/bar scene of downtown, midtown, Montrose, EaDo, Washington Ave, the Heights, Upper Kirby, and Uptown.

The last time UH won an NCAA tournament game was 1984. We're a couple of years away from not only were our current students not born yet, but their parents might not have been either.
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i was really happy to see UH beat Arkansas...esp as bad as they did.

Hope UH surprises this year.
12-03-2017 07:16 PM
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RE: 12/2 AAC Basketball Games
(12-03-2017 09:04 AM)WuDrWu Wrote:  
(12-02-2017 08:22 PM)shockerfan1313 Wrote:  Don't get me wrong, still 1 million times better than the Valley. Just hoping for more ass whipping.

1)Very, very happy to be selected to compete in the AAC. I hope our conference mates feel WSU is holding up their end of the bargain so far.

2)Not for nothing, but Valley 3 AAC 0 so far this year. SMH

3) Valley RPI 6 AAC RPI 8 RSMFH

Those numbers won't keep but still.

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