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We get Big 12 trolls on the UH site sometimes. I've only seen UNT fans there a few times.

I first learned about the Scrappy-Eppy thing on NCAA Football 10 I think or it might have been like NCAA 05 where the loading screens would have trivia about every FBS school.

Pezman is lucky he still has a job. He should have been ran off alongside Dana.

Vito missed this in today’s DRC article. He has Dixon returning.

He left us. I wish him well but he did leave.

I hate the portal and NIL too. But North Texas didn’t invent those things and the answer isn’t to quit on your alma mater. We just have to ride this out until whatever is next comes along. Looks like we will have an exciting team next season too.

This has Old-Denton, Tie-dyes-on-Fry-Street-Fair vibes.

So, since it is perceived that the players are not loyal to NT, we should abandon our alma mater and thus become disloyal, too? Makes sense.

The free throw percentage decrease this past season is concerning. It looks like he can shoot the 3 but was not as high of an option on the offensive side as Aaron. Hoping Hodge signs another 4 that has better shooting numbers.

Hopefully we can get another run-rule win against Memphis to get the bats going and hopefully we draw ECU in the second game who we swept in our first conference series of the year. Gonna need that and career games out of Wagoner and Savage Friday/Saturday to have a chance.

Apparently he's up in Canada with Mason.

I realize that UAB in round 2....is scary. (since they swept us in B'ham). But they're not at home. I would rather face them....than home team WSU. https://twitter.com/American_Conf/status/1787290248285769729/photo/1

Wish his shooting percentage and free throws was better.

So no one will watch college basketball any more? Because of hurt from loyalty? Doubtful!!

I know quite a few people who have not renewed their season tickets. Including some who have emailed the AD to let them know the direction of college sports with the NIL and the portal as the reason. Many feel of the players aren’t loyal why should they be. Especially if they are going to be season ticket holders or donate 10k-50k to the university a year. Losing people who have supported programs for decades and apathetic college students isn’t good for the future.

They are simply tools of their overlords that distribute hate ideology through TikTok. Nothing more.

It is allowed. I never understood why other team's fans are allowed to come on here and troll repeatedly.

What part is the biggest drop in awhile?

Once again, no offense.

Put these guys around Jones and Scott who graduate and ride out together into the pros. That was the ending we needed. Still hard to get excited about any of this. Hopefully students show up as season ticket holders are sadly not coming back for sports. Probably the biggest drop off we have had in a while 😕

Lost game 3 2-1.

Good get. Seems like an auto 8/5 defensive guy from the jump. These are the pieces that allow teams to go from competitive to really good.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As he sat in the lobby of a posh resort last week, athletic director Chris Pezman reflected on the changes the University of Houston has undergone in the nearly 12 months since joining the Big 12 Conference. Fittingly, perhaps, the Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch was in midst of a massive renovation as the league’s three-day spring meetings were held in suburban Phoenix. The same can be said for UH’s athletic department as it continues to evolve to life in the Power Four. Q: What’s the biggest challenge right now for the athletic department? Pezman: Our biggest challenge right now, honestly, is money. We’re trying to catch up to a lot of other schools that have had greater resources for decades. I would tell you right now we’ve got a pretty big hole to fill. We’re trying to figure out a way to either manage our business better or enhance new revenue streams. Everybody chases the same things: self-generated revenue, ticket sales, donations, multimedia rights, those are the main ones. We’ve been way behind on that. If you look at UCF and Cincinnati, we are about $10 million behind them on self-generated revenues. There’s not any reason for it. We could make excuses all day long, but until we meet or exceed that we’re failing and that’s on me. Q: How do you close that gap? Pezman: You’ve got to continue to grow the season ticket base. Obviously, we saw a huge spike last year, first year in the Big 12, obviously the Texas game was a big part of that. Our whole goal is to maintain those numbers, don’t regress. We want to get where we are 33,000 to 35,000 season tickets sooner than later. Q: With UH not receiving a full media share until 2025-26, where does your total budget currently stand? Pezman: We’re at the $95-$97 million range for this year. Our goal is to get to the average ($120-$125 million) as soon as we can. We have to figure out ways to do that in a challenging environment with NIL. That’s the challenges. That same dollar used to go to us, now it’s to the kids, a million different ways, capital projects. It’s a very difficult problem that nobody has figured out the solution yet. Q: What type of impact has the $14.8 million buyout for former football coach Dana Holgorsen had on the athletic department? Pezman: It’s impactful. We’re carrying it on our books. I’ve got to solve it. It affects us how we move forward. I knew we had lost our momentum, and to see the response that we’ve gotten with Willie it justifies the decision. It was really expensive, and it was really painful for a lot of reasons. We want it to work. We have to make it work. But you also have to be smart enough to realize when it’s not and move on. (The school is currently on the hook for roughly $300,000 in monthly payments through the 2027 season). It’s a lot of money. It’s a heavy number. When we hired Dana we were still on the outside (Group of Five) looking in. We were trying to prove that we were investing and that athletics is important to us. We needed to do something like that. I don’t want to say to make a statement, but it was proof of commitment. Dana is a good coach. It just didn’t work. Q: How much has the belt tightening limited what you can do? Pezman: I would tell you 95% of our budget is locked. It’s scholarships, meals, insurance, game guarantees, salaries. It’s not like I can walk in and lay off a thousand employees and make it up. It limits our ability to do further investments in other areas that we want to invest in. In the long run it’s going to even out, because I think the success that we’ll find in short order with football will offset it. read more: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/state-of-university-of-houston-athletics-19437324.php

Love this pickup!! Size!!

Looks like today's game is pretty meaningless....for us anyway. We're locked in as the #3 seed....and would face Memphis in round 1.