Good to hear it’s back!
To answer the Chron’s question, yes, I’ll continue to attend games even after we join the Big 12. 
The Chron covers local government and state government, including lots of what influences spending issues on flood control, police and fire, etc. The news side of the paper has zero to do with the editorial side.
Without the Chronicle, we’d get zero media coverage besides 30 seconds on a Friday night TV broadcast that will really be about the weather. The paper gives UH a full-time beat writer. Should that get cut because not enough readers subscribe, we can blame the paper?
Rant over.
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My 12 year-old son could probably write great exposés on the action figure market in Houston. But I wouldn’t read them if they included references to me as an evil parent. That’s how I feel when I read the chronicle. I can’t get by their juvenile headlines when I’m making my decision at Circle K either. Some cities don’t deserve good newspapers. The fact that Chronicle print version still survives is evidence of this.
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This was a thing in 2019 when we played PVAMU! I do agree with it.
I did say they should let in full and part time students. A few more entities are involved in lobbying for this now.
Mark me, it’s print version is not long for the world.
The answer is yes, football fans will come. Because this administration is doing much better at emphasizing athletics and promoting school spirit. The question is legit though. Remember the SWC days when we’d have a much higher attendance for A&M, UT, Baylor, Tech…mainly because of their fans? Plus the current administration has put much more resources into on campus facilities versus playing in the Dome/NRG. But the question is still legit. We can’t continue to rely on the opponent to prop our attendance numbers up. People in this city have to want to come out to see US play. We’re getting there.
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I forgot to add, I think we’re getting there because student participation in athletics/school spirit is much better. We’re no longer that “commuter school with the older foreign students who don’t care much about athletics.”
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Chron:
“Rise in 4Loko prices create untenable work hours for panhandlers”
“Is the AG responsible for Texas woman’s tic-toc dive into baby pool?”
“Experts: “Idling SUV’s create massive ozone hole over east side Whataburger”
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Never been a bigger time to have season tickets sales high and viewership up and attendance at an all time high. This realignment is all media driven, if your school has the interest and eyeballs, you will succeed in realignment, overwise it is 1996 all over. UH facilities, AD, coaches and president are all in place, what is missing is the fans.
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I agree. But haven’t having your local paper ask the same question we’ve asked ourselves for 35 years doesn’t increase their readership, doesn’t answer any questions everyone’s heard 100 times, etc. Its just needling to drive commentary. Its the same at the Miami Herald and I’m sure Temple gets their share in Philly. Chicago’s generally a better college sports town. This is a by-product of your school being covered by out-of-state expatriates on whole. When you go to college towns most of those news guys come up through the community and are groomed by a homer that came before them. The national news relies on them for stories. In Houston the sportswriters think they are national news. And if you’re a no-name or little guy nationally then you are to them as well.
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The local sports coverage has always been disappointing, what will change that is a natty in the Final Four, something not even PSJ could do.
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agree
Everyone bitches about coverage and yet nobody wants to subscribe. Duarte has been at the Chronicle since forever.
Too, just face it that this is a pro town, and even worse, Texas and A&M, plus Baylor have lots of alums here who are actually fans of their schools. It was a good article written for a general sports audience. We are well aware of our attendance and viewership shortcomings.
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I fully expect them to write the same article in two weeks. Why would I subscribe to a newspaper that kicks me in the b###?
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I subscribed for 30 years…1980-2010. Had enough. They have an axe to grind, period.
I am not in the habit of rewarding bad behavior. JD is a good guy for sure. This starts upstairs and rolls down on us…has for years.
My conversation with the No.3 at The Comical confirmed my suspicions in 2010. She was and is a very good friend of ours…
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Where have you seen this same article before from the Chron? Got a link? You think the article didn’t give us more detailed answers as to what our AD is thinking in how they’re going about increasing attendance and season ticket sales?
If the Chron doing a whole series about UH’s impending transition to the B12 and all the great things coming down the pipe for the university is kicking you in the butt then I don’t know what you would consider to be catered coverage to your liking.
How is this article grinding an axe?
With all this being said, I’d like to add that I just finished paying my season tickets.
Looking fwd to this season, hoping to see some great, entertaining and winning football.
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At this point I’ve been reading the publication off and on for 35+years. It was actually pretty good prior to the collapse of the Post. When it lost competition it went down in my opinion. I don’t read it now because it reminds me of when I did LSD. Eventually, if you do enough, everything repeats itself but in a bad way.
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