Maize Wrote:Quote:College card again shows his total lack of understanding of the Houston sports scene. On his little list he stopped at 2000 and did not list the 99 and 98 seasons when Clyde sold every frickin seat for the entire season before a single game was played.
He was probably ONLY THINKING THIS DECADE. 2000 is a very reasonable cutoff.
Exactly. I wasn't going to list every year ever. It's not like I stopped on a "random" number, a decade is normal for that sort of thing.
TopCoog Wrote:College card again shows his total lack of understanding of the Houston sports scene. On his little list he stopped at 2000 and did not list the 99 and 98 seasons when Clyde sold every frickin seat for the entire season before a single game was played. The fans are in Houston but you have to win and have to show a little glitz. The program is back and attendance has upticked in both of penders seasons....it will continue to do so.
secondly UH football is not down. We are picked by some to win CUSA and by all to go to our third bowl in four years.
Man, what a surprise. Coog is proven wrong once again. You sold out every seat in 1998? NOT buying that one, considering your 1998 attendance was 2,838. 1999 was 8,479. Now that year I can believe you had a sellout, as actual attendance is darn near capacity. Congrats on 1 good year of attendance in the past decade. I say 1 good year out of the last decade because 1997 was 3,337, meaning 9 of the last 10 years UH attendance is pitiful.
It boils down to this. UH only draws fans for a "freak show" if you will. In other words, something other than the true product that a solid program sells...that being the actual team and program. For 1999, that freak show was coming to see Clyde coach (despite that it was a train wreck), not the actual team. Currently, Penders has UH fans somewhat whipped up with excitement, similar to @ UT, Rhode Island, and GW. Like every other place, he'll run from town in a few years, one step ahead of NCAA allegations and/or sanctions from his own university employer. What then, back down to 3,000 people in a 12,500 arena? NICE! At least any time a UH player misses at the free throw line he'll have the excuse of the silence being broken when a fan in the upper deck dropped a penny in the 75% empty stands.
As for UH football, the last 15 years that program has been darn near the definition of "down".
What else do you call the simple fact that since your stellar 1990 campaign, Houston has only 3 above .500 seasons in the last 15 years? The best win total in that 15 years is 7 games in a season.
Since CUSA's 1996 inception, UH is a total 27 games under .500 overall, and 15 games under .500 JUST in CUSA play. Not impressive at all.
As for fall of 2006, everyone thinks they'll be champs in June Coog, you know that. I won't be surprised if Kolb repeats his first 3 seasons. And by that, I mean throw for a lot of meaningless yards, throw a lot of INT's along with his TD's, and lead his team to either bowl ineligibility or else snag the last CUSA bowl spot.