(06-25-2022 07:29 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote: What does our history have to do you having an over-inflated opinion of yourselves. Since you brought it up jerk, it took you six years to finally beat us last year. You red-shirted an entire season because you got off to a slow start. Great sportsmanship right there.
You want to talk about cheating, your basketball coach got thrown out of college sports for "cheating".
If the Pac 12 would take you, it wouldn't be because of the schools storied football program. It would be because of your market size and being in Texas. Yet you still didn't have attendance as good as Memphis while you've been in the AAC. Go figure.
Your record against us in basketball since 2000 is 11-28. Courtesy of the University of Houston: Houston vs Memphis 2000-2022
All time it's 21-35 since you were bring up comparisons.
Yes, the Cougars have struggled with Memphis in football over the past 5 years, and historically Houston's record in basketball against Memphis is bad too (that's changing though). Yes, Kelvin Sampson did get caught cheating at Indiana/Oklahoma, I'm not going to throw out that excuse that what he did is legal now because it would make me a hypocrite. I do disagree with you about the schools having an over-inflated ego, since most of it is just a select few fans doing that talking.
The reason I talked about history was your mentioning of UCF's young program, and Cincy's history and culture. I never really meant that as a statement for "over-inflated opinion of yourselves", I meant it as a rebuttal of the previously stated along with this sentence "It annoys me to no end that teams going to the big twelve that are nothing". Meaning if UC, UH, and UCF are nothing then what is Memphis?
Quote:If the Pac 12 would take you, it wouldn't be because of the schools storied football program. It would be because of your market size and being in Texas.
If the PAC-12 takes Houston just because of their market size and location then ok... that just means Houston is a favorable program for them to acquire, really isn't a knock stating that Houston is in a really good market.
Quote: Yet you still didn't have attendance as good as Memphis while you've been in the AAC. Go figure.
Also going over your point about attendance. Isn't the Liberty Bowl a 58k seat stadium? If I'm looking at this correctly you're struggling to fill that thing up, seems like attendance is a big problem over there.
Lets look at your attendance percentages with your time in the AAC (excluding 2020 for obvious reasons).
2013: 48.2%, 28573/59308
2014: 57.1%, 33851/59308
2015: 73.9%, 43801/59308
2016: 64%, 37345/58325
2017: 62.2%, 36302/58325
2018: 51.8%, 30178/58325
2019: 66.6%, 38815/58325
2021: 53.7%, 31295/58325
Seems like not being able to fill up "your" stadium isn't only a UH problem.
Hell, let's compare the best years attendance-wise for each in the AAC.
Houston: 2016, 97.2%, 38,888/40000 (also doesn't include the home game against Oklahoma which had 71,016 people in NRG)
Memphis: 2015, 73.9%, 43801/59308
Ya, you outdrew Houston in a much bigger stadium, so what. They could probably go in NRG and spew out a good 45,000-50,000 each game at a minimum. Still doesn't change the fact you can't fill the Liberty Bowl.
UCF, UH, and UC isn't "nothing" and they don't have an "over-inflated opinion of yourselves". They got into the Big-12 for a multitude of reasons and they're happy about it, along with them being able to look into their future with a less pessimistic light.