(10-18-2016 09:02 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (10-17-2016 09:16 PM)Pony94 Wrote: Love people in Houston thinking a city trumps the state
You said it. Denial is not a river in....it's a city in Texas where I live. The crazy part is this: Hardly anyone in Houston knows or even cares about UT-Houston going up. Then if they did know, they wouldn't care. I wish it wasn't true, but it is. It's like the Coog fans on here telling everyone that Houston isn't a commuter college anymore....or putting up stats about Houston's new high admission standards etc. these high SAT averages and so on. Almost everyone in my army unit takes classes at Houston, they are older commuters who got in by simply applying, none of them go to games, most follow AtM or UT if they even follow college football at all. It is was it is.
Cheers!
i honestly never noticed billybobby777 was a houston hater. well atleast now that is cleared up
1) communter school is defined by percentage of commuters ..houston has identical housing stats to UT..the only school in texas with a drastically better campus housing percentage is TTech and that is becuase the make it mandetorry to live on campus 1 year
--your counter of "i know commuters" is a stupid one, everyone knows commuters in every college.. the national average for on-campus students for every college is only about 19%..so about 81 percent of all college students dont live on campus and commute
-- my last tailgate non of the people were UH alum, they went to UT, ttech, UNT or A&M. they all just came to game from the buzz or knowing someone coming. but im not stupid enough to use my personal isolated experience to say UT and A&M alums actually all root for houston..
2) you just stated why this is in houstons favor... "Hardly anyone in Houston knows or even cares about UT-Houston going up" most non-UH person dont know about this. the UT people dont care, they arent pushing legislators nor does it have any public support...but in UH circles fear mongering has grown about how this might "hurt your UH degree". they are making pushes to stop this..atleast 20 politician have publicly spoken against it, the governor has sided with us, so has the head of texas board of education
zero politician have come in support of UT-Houston, most UT people dont even know its happening
this isnt the power of UH vs The power of UT...Its the power of UH (with heavy political clout) vs a few optimistic board members at UT
but honestly i never realized you were such a hater