UH athletic director

[ZoomZoom]

More details:
A source tells @HoustonChron that top levels of UH administration had become frustrated with AD Chris Pezman’s inability to make significant progress to increase revenue through sponsorships and fundraising and it was a “consensus decision” to make a change.

So Maggard is out

This is a quickly growing concern across the nation. Professional sports are becoming unaffordable to the average family, college sports are simply following the trend. NIL just grease the skids.

NIL moved a good bit of funds that universities received to NIL. And fans are saying enough and walking away.

[HelmutVII]

This is a quickly growing concern across the nation. Professional sports are becoming unaffordable to the average family, college sports are simply following the trend. NIL just grease the skids.

NIL moved a good bit of funds that universities received to NIL. And fans are saying enough and walking away.

Say for football here at UL if you total the cost of RCAF membership, parking and season tickets and divide by 6 the cost per game per seat can be anywhere between 250.00 to 500.00. The entertainment value is not there. Add having to deal with the parking Nazis and tailgate Nazis you come to the conclusion that it's just not worth it. I can stay home and listen to the game on the radio or watch on TV and get something to eat or drink from my fridge, take a nap or work in my yard. Bottom line, it's easier to stay home and not pay someone to hassle you.

[ZoomZoom]

Well, here’s tonight’s view into the future. Been saying basketball is next. Increase the number of slices of pie and shut out the “mid majors” gaining bids, more money in the long run for the big boys.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ns-72-76-teams

Other sports will follow.

[Turbine]

Well, here’s tonight’s view into the future. Been saying basketball is next. Increase the number of slices of pie and shut out the “mid majors” gaining bids, more money in the long run for the big boys.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ns-72-76-teams

Other sports will follow.

Good bye NIT

[CajunVic]

Good bye NIT

NIL strikes the NIT

it will probably be more diminished rather than gone

it may even become THE top level of competition for those no longer capable of competing in the NCAA tournament as a result of free transferred combined with NIL (or better the lack of NIL sources and funding)

[USLJim]

UH has a president (woman) who understands the importance of athletics to the university and it alumni. She has moved the university in an upward trajectory academically and athletically and now has them in the Big 12. Our president has done great things academically and with our campus, but athletics has been left to relative mediocrity at the G5 level with no understanding of the importance of athletics to the brand of the university that moves the needle with its alumni and fans or an unwillingness to do so.

I believe he’s more interested in the WOKE culture and nerds , than Athletics. He has beautified this campus tremendously and I salute him, but driving thru campus is like driving thru a ghost town, I don’t see the large number of students walking thru campus regularly

[R1Letterman]

Good bye NIT

NIT was already gone, lol. Any further downsizing of nit is a p5 esting p5 situation.
In 2023 g5 had only 1 auto bid to nit and in 2024 zero.
Meanwhile for p4/5/6? Autobids went from 0 to 11
And total teams in 23 for g5 there were 6, and big boys had 14, then in 2024 g5 just 5 with big boys up to 17

[RaginScotsman]

Good bye NIT

That was my first thought. Wouldn’t be a terrible thing as they are pushing back on non p4 too.

[CajunJeaux]

Good bye NIT

Reality is the NIT lost its luster years ago.

The only people who really care about it are the teams in it.

[ZoomZoom]

In the hey day of USL basketball, NIT meant Not In Tournament.