Congrats, Coogs. 13-1 is a fantastic season no matter what. Hopefully SHSU can make it 15-0 on Saturday and have the two teams with Houston in their name go a combined 28-1.
Yeah it really frustrates me more thinking how that game went down..not to discredit USM because they played hard and I think showed more fight at times than Penn State. But, we play like we did today, like we have all year, we win...or we at least have a chance at winning. Oh well, if this program is going where everyone hopes, there will be more chances for BCS glory in the future.
For bowls with payouts exceeding $6 million (i.e. the BCS games), each participating school gets $1.74 million. The balance goes to the conference, which takes its share and then splits the money up evenly among the remaining conference teams. Also IIRC, non-BCS teams in BCS games don't get $17 M, they get 9% of the BCS revenue which is much less. Then, they split their payout not only with their own conference, but will all non-BCS conferences. I remember that when Boise was in the Fiesta Bowl, they got $9 M and got to keep $3.5 M of it. The TicketCity Bowl pays out $1.2 per team. UH keeps $840 K of that and the rest goes to the C-USA to split amongst its members which is $30K each. So UH gets $870 K from this game. If UH were in the Big East and in a BCS game, they would've taken home $3.266 M. If I'm wrong about the other and non-BCS conference get paid like BCS conferences, then UH would've made $3,011,666 this year as a member of C-USA. So really, it cost UH a little more than $2 M, not $17 M.
Yeah, it's tough to swallow. But Maggard, Briles, Sumlin, and Rhodes ...they all helped bring us back to where we are now. Sumlin got the chance to go to the SEC and had to go then ...again because of the recruiting. I've waited 30 years for the Coogs to get where they are clearly headed now. (being able to play with anyone in the nation again) There is continuity in philosophy and recruiting... Levine & UH will be keeping plenty of talent at home and with the move to the new Big East will benefit from coast to coast exposure. That's why after the loss to USM, I was glad when it was announced that it would be Penn St. It was the perfect matchup for us. Though the Nittany Lions are embattled(between the scandal & QB issues), this win will carry a lot of weight moving forward in recruiting/respect here and there. Seeing what happens when the president, the athletics department, and the powers that be finally line up has been a thing to behold. We are positioned to dominate the BE in football and be in the thick of it in hoops each year .(Dickey is the right guy) From there we'll see what happens, but either way, I'll be there with 50,000 others when the stadium comes online .....with memories so thick you can cut them with a knife....and I'll be home.
didn't so. miss' coach leave just days after that game as well? can't use that excuse as the reason uh got blown out.
While that's true, I don't know if there were the same rumblings about Fedora leaving as there were for Sumlin. At least not to the point where it was pretty much confirmed that he'd been offered and had accepted a job some place else. North Carolina was still interviewing people the day before the C-USA Championship game.
True, but the University would still have greatly benefited from the national attention gained from being in a BCS bowl.
Definitely USM came to play and had a chip on their shoulder. But UH clearly came out flat. Completely different team. If one or two players are having a bad day that's one thing, but if the whole team is playing horribly, you have to look at the coaching...especially if that was the only game all season they played like that. I think there were feint rumors surrounding Fedora too, but I believe they intensified only after the win. USM came to play no doubt, but UH clearly was clouded by the BCS hoopla and the Sumlin rumors. And...this wasn't this first time under Sumlin that UH lost a CUSA championship game.
46,000 people showed up for the game earlier today. The stadium has a 90,000+ seat capacity. It was a little dissapointing that the stadium looked only half full. It's not like Dallas is an eternity away from Houston.
Considering that 40K showed up when Tech (who, according to most Tech fans, has a massive presence in Dallas) and Northwestern played in the same game last year, I'd say it was a good turnout.
Kingsbury is leaving for A&M and Jason Phillips says he's "exploring his options" which pretty much means he's leaving too.
It was a pitiful showing. UH has over 30K students on campus at any point in time, and many many more alumni. Just goes to show that a commuter school doesn't get quality fan support. Just compare Baylor attendance vs. UH....and Baylor only has 14K students.
Their team just got raped in the United States Conference "championship" game. Hard to blame the fans.
http://deadspin.com/5872516/pedobear-showed-up-at-the-houston penn-state-game-today apparently it was some UT fans behind the pedobear appearance there was also a penn state flashmob after the game that did a choreographed dance number to "don't stop believin"... weird day
Tech/Ole Miss did set the cotton bowl attendance record in the same stadium just a few years prior... Also Tech probably gets a few extra thousand people if the game wasnt 11 AM New Year Day. I had tickets and was about 30 minutes late:grin: The Ticketcity bowl will never get close to filling that thing up all of these second class bowls don't draw too well...So ya if they drew 46k I'd say that's pretty good...
