(06-07-2017 08:17 AM)Dawgxas Wrote: (06-07-2017 12:58 AM)pesik Wrote: (06-06-2017 09:03 PM)Dawgxas Wrote: (06-05-2017 05:55 PM)techdawg28 Wrote: There it is. The 2019 UH game will replace the would-have-been 2019 Army game. Seems like a better option to me.
The optics of dropping two Army games for two Liberty games may not be great, but I think picking up this UH series more than validates it. IMO UNT's schedule is better off than before.
Hopefully UNT will be improved enough by then to make this an exciting match up! GMG
Not really, Army would have brought out a much better crowd and local fan interest than Houston. Nobody cares about Houston in DFW
outside of texas (& west louisana) id agree but you have zero clue if you think this is true within texas...vs Houston is top 4 attended if not #1 for every g5 texas team...
we bring the most fans of any teams willing to travel to their stadium, about 3-5k.
i guarantee youd have said the same thing that nobody cares about houston in the austin area...except our game was completely sold out for texas state and had 3k people in standing room only (highest attended game ever for texas state)
houston vs unt is still unt's most attended game ever
not including utsa first ever year, where every game was doing crazy numbers, we are the #4 most attended home utsa game outside of year 1 (arizona beat us by a 100 people, another was a top 10 Oklahoma st)
you have zero clue about what you are talking about..unt, utsa texas state have all claimed they want to be rivals with us, their fans come out of the woodworks to trash talk whenever we play them..san antonios mayor makes a jersey bet with houstons mayor everytime we play...
We all believe Houston would generate more interest than Norte Dame, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Michigan. What about UT, A&M? When you talk about bringing in a splashy opponent UH is way down the list.
More people watch SEC and Big 12 in Houston than UH (proven by top 20 chart) much less in DFW where UH is just an after thought. For a regional G5 opponent, yes Houston is good opponent but nowhere near the opponent UNT fans were expecting. I'm sure it will be a decent crowd with the local UH alumni but so would Army. And Army would have generated interest among local Vets, soldiers from Fort Hood and they could have a military appreciation day and showcased their university for potential students.
Ruston is not much further than Denton and Houston brought a smaller crowd than quite a few regional G5 opponents
BTW You are referring to UNT first game ever in their new stadium. It wasn't because they were playing UH, yeah you forgot to mention that part
1) first of "Norte Dame, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Michigan. What about UT, A&M?"..i clearly wrote "teams willing to travel to their stadium"..not a single one of those teams are touching their stadiums..
2) why do you make up BS..houston oklahoma was rated higher in the houston area than Texa ND (which was the highest rated game nationally that season)..you literally make up BS every time we debate ...i really dont feel like looking it up but when the whole big 12 fiasco was happening every houston fan posted an article that showed 3 houston games (2 vs g5) rated higher than all but 2 big 12 games (for all 14 teams).. houston owned the houston market....your top 20 charts statement is a lie as it supports houston not your made up facts
3) houston oklahoma, had dominant dfw ratings (almost 300k) and before you state that it was because of Oklahoma, we drew over a 100k more viewers in dfw than oklahoma/tcu..and the dfw rating site is pretty trash and hard to navigate but i i couldnt find any tcu/baylor/texas tech game that rated higher (including vs oklahoma) the last 2 years
http://www.unclebarky.com/dfw_files/arch...-2016.html
4) so we are just going to pretend UH/la tech didnt do 24k (and at the time of the game no one thought we were good)... la tech struggles to do 24k now and your team is drastically better, literally the year before you could only muster 23k for a top 5 boise
if we played at la tech next season, with both of us being perceived as good, we both know it would likely crack top 5 attended la tech games ever
5) and yes it was UNTs first game at the new stadium, what you are missing is that they desperately wanted us to open it.. that they were looking for a big opponent to open and were basically praising us for coming...i can almost guarantee the 2019 game will be their second best attended game ever
every time we talk, its almost built on animosity and not facts