Maybe, but you know Baylor and TCU don't usually have top thirty recruiting classes anyway. Those guys seem to get a lot out of two and three star recruits.
The 3.9 is based on the city of Houston viewership. The reason it is important is many P5 schools have always said Houston can not carry the city. The last two weeks numbers have shown that we can.
Rumor is they're gonna bump him up a million and probably either extend the length or increase the buyout.
National numbers are in. UH Memphis had 748,000 viewers, about 100k better than Memphis Navy from the week before on ESPN2, but not close to the 5.5 million that watched Baylor OU on ABC. At the same time slot, Arkansas LSU had 3.6 million viewers on ESPN, UFC prelims had 1.4 million on FS1, and A&M Western Carolina had 300,000 on ESPNU.
Of course Baylor OU was the most watched game. It was easily the best cfb game of the week! I'm pretty happy with those numbers. The Navy game should get around 3mill nationally if it ends up on ABC.
The November 7th night games viewership was: CBS LSU Alabama 10.68 million ABC Ohio St Minnesota 4.63 million FOX Utah Washington 1.13 million ESPN Michigan St Nebraska 3.47 million ESPN2 Navy Memphis 650k ESPNU Iowa St OU 554k FS1 UFC Belfort Henderson 609k So the numbers for Memphis UH were good, not crazy good, but definitely an improvement from the prior 2 weeks of ESPN2 games. But I'd be pleasantly surprised if they decide to bump the likes of Ohio St Michigan off of broadcast tv in favor on UH Navy...actually, I'd be shocked.
We're up against Pitt/Miami for the ABC slot, I think. They're waiting to see this week's results before deciding.
I didn't realize before how much of a bargain contract we currently have Herman on. http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/ Five coaches within our conference are paid a bigger base salary. I'd like to see if we can offer him $3m. He's shown enough already for us to go all-in on him.
It's a bargain given what we know now. On the day he signed, it was a pretty lucrative non-P5 contract for a rookie head coach. To come into a job fresh and immediately start making almost as much as accomplished guys like Ruffin McNeil, Tim DeRuyter, and Ken Niumatalolo? That's a big pretty leap of faith for UH to take, especially since they're still on the hook for Levine's stupid extension. Here's the list of bonuses: That's almost 200K in bonuses he has a good chance of landing this year. That would put him as the 3rd highest paid coach in the AAC. Not bad for a beginner.
Ugh, forgot that we're still paying him. When is Levine's contract over? I'm hoping UH is willing to do whatever it takes to keep Herman. He can recruit and he can coach. A few seasons of Herman dominating the conference would really change the face of this program.
