Houston vs. OU

[Adios]

This might sound silly but I don't think the number or margin of Houston's wins will actually make any difference, but the buzz surrounding the success could be a factor (one of many) in the decision if Houston is borderline. From a football coach's perspective, the other schools don't want to UH recruiting in a P5 league, but that is not likely to influence college presidents.

Houston's golf championships might have a lot of away.

 

[Hoophound]

Hoophound, it has nothing to do with that, I'm 100 percent behind UCONN alway. This is an even better Houston team than last year. And Ward saw minimal time against us and was ineffective due to his injury. (1-4, 18 yds)

This is the same Houston team we kicked in the nuts and took their wallet. Tim Boyle lead the way. Grow a pair.

 

[Sky ball]

Houston did not read UConn's playbook. They passed on 1st two downs of game. No Run Run pass. WTF are they doing?

 

[HuskyBandDad]

That's what I was implying, OU looks like barely a Top 25 team at all right now. Not clear they aren't the third best team in their own state.

Yes I was agreeing to your first post. Same for Houston. Let's see were they are after a few weeks

 

[UConnNick]

Yes I was agreeing to your first post. Same for Houston. Let's see were they are after a few weeks

Next week UH plays Lamar at home. The scoreboard won't go high enough to record the final score.

I attended the UH game today. Some were suggesting it would be a 50/50 crowd split, or even more OU fans. That wasn't the case at all. UH had 70-75 percent of the crowd. The Sooner fans began a mass exodus very early in the 4Q. Even I was surprised. OU has a huge number of alums in metro Houston.

 

[Bomber36]

This is the same Houston team we kicked in the nuts and took their wallet. Tim Boyle lead the way. Grow a pair.

Ok. So they deleted my first reply to your inane post. Boyle did not do anything in that game. Newsome had a great game....our defense played great. Their back up quarterback did nothing, so we beat a better team then us. No need to be rude about it, it's a fact. We're all UCONN fans so no need for the insults. Unless it's your way of feeling smart and superior.

This is the same Houston team we kicked in the nuts and took their wallet. Tim Boyle lead the way. Grow a pair.

 

[Redding Husky]

I don't think conference realignment selections should be based on one good game or even a few good seasons. Any team not named Alabama will have its up and down cycles ... even top programs like Michigan, USC, and Florida. To add Houston to the Big 12 solely because their football team is hot right now is pure insanity.

I've got to believe school presidents will take a holistic, long range look at the schools and won't be swayed by fleeting success.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I don't think conference realignment selections should be based on one good game or even a few good seasons. Any team not named Alabama will have its up and down cycles ... even top programs like Michigan, USC, and Florida. To add Houston to the Big 12 solely because their football team is hot right now is pure insanity.

I've got to believe school presidents will take a holistic, long range look at the schools and won't be swayed by fleeting success.

Believe it or not Alabama has also had down cycles.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

I don't think conference realignment selections should be based on one good game or even a few good seasons. Any team not named Alabama will have its up and down cycles ... even top programs like Michigan, USC, and Florida. To add Houston to the Big 12 solely because their football team is hot right now is pure insanity.

I've got to believe school presidents will take a holistic, long range look at the schools and won't be swayed by fleeting success.

We better pray that's the case. How did TCU ended up in the B12? I do wonder sometimes if their football success at the right time helped them. Was that the most important factor? Houston is getting hot at the right moment.

This is why our FB team must show some life soon in the coming games. If we play another crappy game like the Maine game, it won't help our perception with the general public. Every bit helps right now.

 

[Redding Husky]

We better pray that's the case. How did TCU ended up in the B12? I do wonder sometimes if their football success at the right time helped them. Was that the most important factor? Houston is getting hot at the right moment.

This is why our FB team must show some life soon in the coming games. If we play another crappy game like the Maine game, it won't help our perception with the general public. Every bit helps right now.

I understand Diaco wanting to keep the offense vanilla against Maine. From a football perspective, that's fine. Just get a win and don't reveal too much.

But like you basically said, we are auditioning. Realignment is partially a beauty contest. And we stumbled a bit in our first walk down the runway against Maine.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

NRG was packed and full of red yesterday to my surprise somewhat. Of course this good news for UH. Probably better news that OU fans also wear red.

 

[Sky ball]

I don't think conference realignment selections should be based on one good game or even a few good seasons. Any team not named Alabama will have its up and down cycles ... even top programs like Michigan, USC, and Florida. To add Houston to the Big 12 solely because their football team is hot right now is pure insanity.

I've got to believe school presidents will take a holistic, long range look at the schools and won't be swayed by fleeting success.

Like the ACC did with Louisville?

 

[Redding Husky]

Like the ACC did with Louisville?

Louisville seriously committed to football about 1990. Houston's commitment has been consistently inconsistent for 50 years. Right now, they look fantastic. Where will they be in 2030 or 2040 with football? I think it's a good bet they can sustain a P5 football program. But that's all they have. Louisville also has elite basketball.

 

[Nostical]

The Houston crowd was the most important metric yesterday. I'm still of the opinion that much more important than how we play--- is how many fans are in the stadium. Regardless of the opponent or the excitement of our play, if UConn still can't fill a stadium when filling it is absolutely critical to acceptance into the Big XII and our AD has even hired a firm to help, then the entire State of Conn doesn't care enough about being a P-5 member. They either haven't been properly advised of the benefits to the University and the State, either directly or via the media, or no one cares enough to listen.
If I put $100 bills on every seat and said you can keep it if you're in that seat by kickoff, I bet I'd lose very little of my money.
We better wake up on Sept 17th. Lots of people will be watching. Maybe even Bob Bowlsby.

 

[Storrsbred]

The Houston crowd was the most important metric yesterday. I'm still of the opinion that much more important than how we play--- is how many fans are in the stadium. Regardless of the opponent or the excitement of our play, if UConn still can't fill a stadium when filling it is absolutely critical to acceptance into the Big XII and our AD has even hired a firm to help, then the entire State of Conn doesn't care enough about being a P-5 member. They either haven't been properly advised of the benefits to the University and the State, either directly or via the media, or no one cares enough to listen.
If I put $100 bills on every seat and said you can keep it if you're in that seat by kickoff, I bet I'd lose very little of my money.
We better wake up on Sept 17th. Lots of people will be watching. Maybe even Bob Bowlsby.

Agree. Winning is nice, but if a team doesn't play a fan pleasing style of football it doesn't matter. Fans won't show up. No fans equals no P5. No P5 probably equates to a slow inexorable death spiral in UConn sports.
The good news is UConn has survived pretty well without big boy football to date. Maybe that will continue, but with increasing costs everywhere, less likely.

 

[Dooley]

The most important thing to come out of Houston's win yesterday is the TV rating it drew. That's an astronomical local number, which is what UH is selling. Dallas-Fort Worth drew a huge local too.

Houston:
Okla-Hou: 4.0 overnight & 12.8 in Houston, market’s highest rating for an opening weekend cfb game across ESPN nets

Did a quick lookup. That Houston-OU 12.8 TV number in Houston bigger than any regular-season or New Year's Six CFB game last year in market.

DFW:
DFW Saturday Ratings:
Oklahoma/Houston 7.3
Alabama/USC 5.2
UCLA/Texas A&M 5.0
LSU/Wisconsin 5.0
Astros/Rangers 3.4
SDakSt/TCU 2.0

Houston’s triumph over OU a winner in the ratings, too

Point is: if you don't go to UConn football games, you have to at least turn your TVs/streaming devices to the game. 29K crowds and low TV ratings will not help our cause whatsoever when Houston posts up numbers like that (and yes, a large number of OU fans are certainly embedded in these numbers).

BYU also drew over 30K fans to Phoenix last night. They had so many fans there that it sounded like a home game for BYU...in Phoenix...against Arizona. I don't know the rating it drew but I imagine it will be 2nd behind UH/OU of the B12 candidates.

 

[Nostical]

If you don't go to UConn football games, you have to at least turn your TVs/streaming devices to the game. 29K crowds and low TV ratings will not help our cause whatsoever when Houston posts up numbers like that.
BYU had so many fans (in Phoenix) that it sounded like a home game for BYU against Arizona.

Amen, brother. As for BYU they can count on lots of local Mormons coming out in many western venues to watch the Cougars. That's one of their main attractions to networks.
We need to step up or we'll deserve exactly the unthinkable outcome we fear.