This is a DailyCougar article that talks about UH taking a portion of the student fees away from Athletics and puts it towards other things (like CAPS and the CSAC). The SFAC’s reasoning comes from Athletics not saying WHAT they’re using the money for, when they believe it should be invested into the student experience. Holy smokes.
This also comes with Pez on the record saying that prices for everything are going to shoot up big time.
“As we move ahead, where we have to grow is our self-generated revenue: ticket sales, donations, parking concessions, merch, all those. We’re looking at probably close to a 250% to 300% increase across the board in each one of those revenue streams,” Pezman said.
If it’s 700k reduction , it’s doable but I disagree bc athletics keeps their degree on the front porch which they don’t understand. Ask A&M or UT to drop athletics and see what they say. Big time athletics keeps you from having to explain in detail where you went and etc. Right now, you say UH, A&M and UT and most in the nation will know. If you say Lamar , you have to explain well it’s outside of Houston about 100 miles and they play in what conf? Oh o forgot.
Pez does need to stop all the ticket increases for football. He simply needs to sell out the stadium by making those upper seats cheap. The buffalo bills were going to pay people 20 an hr for the playoff game till they moved it for ex.
It’s 700k from around 4.x million, so not horrible, plus this is from student fees (and it’s being moved around to other things like CAPS and more student centered items).
The main complaint from SFAC was that the money from the students should be reinvested into the students (experience, for example) and according to them that didn’t happen.
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If you read the article the 250%-300% quote was from before we played a single Big12 game, I expect that the increases to be pretty substantial if your bar is 2022, I don’t know about 300%, but that could be a 10 year projection.
To compare student fee support to other Big12 schools is not total accurate. Part of our fee covers tickets. I pulled a Big12 school at random, Iowa State, student tickets are free to wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball and women’s basketball, it is $175 for a season ticket to football, and $299 total if you want to add men’s basketball. OSU is $250 for all, KSU is $295 for all ect.
If a Lamar University graduate was asked by a stranger in Houston “where’d you go to school?”. I would recommend they respond “Lamar University, not the high school.”
Hey Shaun ,
Is there a list of what the Students use their share of the Fees for ? I wish I could find a list of Names of Student Activities /dollars allocated for each . I would like to see how that money is used and what good is it doing. I think things will be better for all when we start getting our full B12 share .
Go Coogs!
Also when I was at UT (Univ.of Tenn) in the late 70s doing Grad work,Athletics(mainly football) contributed a percentage of their income to the University’s General Budget . I hope UH gets that successful .
Go Lockdown-Htown…it is all ours !
These kids don’t necessarily hold the same views as the student population that they are representing. While I was a student, I didn’t know many kids who paid any attention to student government. I assume the admin and regents don’t give them much consideration.
UT and A&M’s athletic programs pay for themselves. We don’t come close to doing that. Even so I would hope we could avoid cuts, at least until the money starts rolling in from our full conference distribution in a couple of years.
We likely are building a student body that will be much more active and supportive of our teams now that we are in the Big 12…I doubt this committee reflects the feeling of the student body we’re going to have. The administration will do what they do, but no sense acting like this is important because it isnt…We are going to get vastly more money from our Big12 shares than we have ever made before…
The lunatics, as you put it, who voted in favor of funding the stadium, are long gone from the university. These students may be long gone soon but if they control the purse strings in 2-3 year budgetary increments.
Who makes the final decision on the disbursement of the student fees?
I was fortunate enough to be taking some classes at the time of the vote and proudly voted FOR our new stadium as did around 80% in a landslide victory for our university.
I Think something important being missed about the revenue comment, Is that we’re not talking a 250 to 300% increase in prices. Volume is an important component of revenue. Sell more tickets, more merch, more parking, and the revenue can shoot up without prices raised. Although realistically, it’s going to be a combination of both.