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CU adds home and home with Houston - 2025 at UH, 2026 in Boulder

4BienemyTDs said:
Solid Series for us, great recruiting hotbed. Look for some potential Houston area recruits in the 2022, 2023 classes, since you can sell that your family will see you play at home in a few years. The 1 for 1 is a little bit too bad, and wish that we could have gotten the 2nd visit from Houston a few years down the road?
Our schedules are looking good and getting better, as long as we continue to get CSU and even honestly Air Force off the schedules. Rick George is doing his job and we would not be where we are and in the direction we are heading without RG.
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Agree on CSU, but disagree on AFA. They have so little flexibility in football scheduling because of the Army and Navy games that we'll never play them in football on even a semi-regular basis. Two, both games in that series will sell out-easily. Three, I'd bet money that ESPN or FOX will take both of those. All the service academies draw from a TV perspective, and we share the after dark TV window with the MWC-seems very logical that both games in that series would wind up on worst case CBSSN for the game down there.
 
ahoelsken said:
A couple things here-I think the American schools in that part of the country make sense (Houston, Tulane, SMU, and I suppose we could throw Tulsa in that mix).......but I don't think people like North Texas do. Would a hypothetical road game in a 1 for 1 or 2 for 1 with them be on TV? I think we'd get more out of a game at the Texans' stadium against somebody from the SEC West-say Ole Miss or Mississippi State, or doing a home and home with a neutral site game in Houston or Dallas with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, or LSU on the back end.
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Interesting take. I am of the opinion that simply landing at DFW gives a CU recruiter the chance for an in home visit. And whether it’s NTex, SMU, or TCU, the player’s friends and family located in the DFW area get a chance to see a live game.

I agree that a matchup between CU and some B12 or SEC team under the bright lights of Jerry World turns things up a notch. But I’m not sure CU will be on the short list of teams that the folks at Jerry World would be soliciting. They want a program that can fill 35K seats or more. An LSU game at AT&T stadium versus CU would basically be an LSU home game.
 
ahoelsken said:
Agree on CSU, but disagree on AFA. They have so little flexibility in football scheduling because of the Army and Navy games that we'll never play them in football on even a semi-regular basis. Two, both games in that series will sell out-easily. Three, I'd bet money that ESPN or FOX will take both of those. All the service academies draw from a TV perspective, and we share the after dark TV window with the MWC-seems very logical that both games in that series would wind up on worst case CBSSN for the game down there.
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Very Fair Point on AFA, but it does not pop in the recruiting world of things, and they are tough to play due to style, and they have a good coach.
 
Guys, we WANT a game in Texas at least every other year for recruiting. I really don't care who we are playing.
 
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Clean Undies said:
Interesting take. I am of the opinion that simply landing at DFW gives a CU recruiter the chance for an in home visit. And whether it’s NTex, SMU, or TCU, the player’s friends and family located in the DFW area get a chance to see a live game.

I agree that a matchup between CU and some B12 or SEC team under the bright lights of Jerry World turns things up a notch. But I’m not sure CU will be on the short list of teams that the folks at Jerry World would be soliciting. They want a program that can fill 35K seats or more. An LSU game at AT&T stadium versus CU would basically be an LSU home game.
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The game's gotta be on TV though too. If we did a home and home with North Texas or Rice and we couldn't get the away game on at least CBSSN, why bother? As far as your second point-the game doesn't have to be at Jerry World.....NRG Stadium in Houston would work just as well. LSU and even UT will play games in that building somewhat regularly.
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Very Fair Point on AFA, but it does not pop in the recruiting world of things, and they are tough to play due to style, and they have a good coach.
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Any out of conference opponent in football needs to sell tickets, help in recruiting or both. Air Force does sell tickets, and I guarantee you we're not going to have any problems getting those games on TV. I don't have a problem playing them every so often.
 
Highlander said:
Guys, we WANT a game in Texas at least every year for recruiting. I really don't care who we are playing.
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If we can't get that game on TV, there's no point. Playing Nebraska on the road didn't help us in recruiting............but playing them on ABC at 1:30 in the afternoon Mountain time sure did lol.
 
ahoelsken said:
The game's gotta be on TV though too. If we did a home and home with North Texas or Rice and we couldn't get the away game on at least CBSSN, why bother? As far as your second point-the game doesn't have to be at Jerry World.....NRG Stadium in Houston would work just as well. LSU and even UT will play games in that building somewhat regularly.
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I agree with you about getting on TV.

I’m sure glad RG has A&M, TCU, and now Houston on the schedule. Each will be on TV, connect with fans, and help recruiting.

But playing home-home vs NTex, SMU, Rice or UTSA still pays recruiting dividends, even though those schools aren’t P5 and don’t grab premium TV slots/networks.

It’s certainly preferable than playing on the road at UMass. Having the opportunity to play in front of mom and dad, girlfriends, HS buddies, and former coaches is a nice thing to be able to sell a recruit.
 
Clean Undies said:
Good excuse to visit Cougar High’s new stadium, which is just 8mi from SWA friendly Hobby airport.

Maybe tour NASA or catch & release some toxic red snapper off the ship channel end of Galveston Island.
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Easy-peasy football weekend for CU’s Lone Star refugees.
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Highlander said:
Guys, we WANT a game in Texas at least every year for recruiting. I really don't care who we are playing.
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At least every year? So more than one a year is preferred? That’s a rough OOC schedule, especially to have two road OOC every year.
 
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