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Don't know if it's a po boy contender, but I've stopped there at 2 or 3 AM for food several times. Doesn't look like much, but pretty good food especially for that time of night

For breakfast, try the Camellia Grill. If you have time, take the trolley past Tulane to the original location on Carrollton. If not, The Grill in the Quarter works. Get the Manhattan Omelette or the Chefs Special Omelette. And agreed to everyone who said the WWII museum. I think it may be the biggest must do in NO. Plan on taking at least 1/2 day, but I could spend a whole week there

Mothers is good. Used to be my favorite. But the best poboy is at Parkway. Try the surf and turf. A little outside the Quarter so take an Uber. It's worth it http://parkwaypoorboys.com

HY had split opinions about him. Very few loved him. Many hated him and are glad he's gone. Most thought he was adequate Many consider him a bean counter type AD who did a decent job of the day to day. Kept the facilities improvement projects momentum going but didn't really do much for taking care of the fans and the game day experience. Hired Applewhite, but the credit/blame for that falls mostly on Fertitta. Many hated his inability to schedule for football, but he partially redeemed himself lately with home and homes with BYU and Boise

So only those who played D1 football have knowledge? Guess you need to tell that to Mike Leach, Paul Johnson, David Cutliffe, Chad Morris, Sonny Dykes, and Hugh Freeze

I know it's likely a minority, but the UTSA fans claiming UH delayed/cancelled the game because we're scared of losing to them is not a show of class. Sadly I'm guessing that the number of UTSA fans who think this way is higher than the number who posted, but they don't want to look bad by bad mouthing hurricane victims.

What a dumb article. There's not an NCAA 2018, so we're going to use someone else's ranking (Bill Connelly's S&P+ projection) and claim that's how the video game would rank them.

In this era of terror attack concerns, I imagine fewer stadia are being left open.

All I need to know about this article is that it says Rice seats 70k. That stadium hasnt been able to seat that many for 10 years. It holds about 47k.

Looking at Houston's experience as crowd sizes have increased, the name team bump in season ticket sales is negligible without the sell out. The fan who comes to 2-3 games a year without the big name still only comes to 2-3 games and the bigger name game is included. Possible exception is if he's already been considering season tickets, but again that's not usually a huge impact The increase in that one game comes from opposing fans if local or a big travelling fan base and home fans who go to 0-1 game a year. Those aren't going to be season ticket buyers UH didn't start seeing significant season ticket sales increases even with on field success and increased average attendance until the big game or multiple games per season started selling out Agreed UH isn't going to bump season tickets sales. It will bump that one game

You include Baylor in UNT's sphere of influence and don't include aTm in Houston's? aTm had much more power in the SWC than SMU, TCU, and Baylor combined. It's funny you knock Rice as a doormat by the mid-70s. TCU? From 1966-1983, they had 1 winning season. Not many more until 1998. So pretty much a doormat too. I'm not sure where UNT goes if they make the SWC in the early '80s. Arkansas is gone in just a few years. The conference announces it is dead in about a decade. With the increase in competition, does UNT drop to Rice and TCU level in the SWC? Does UNT go with UH to CUSA or does it join the rest of the SWC leftovers in the WAC? Probably the WAC, then UNT gets left out of the MWC because it's not aligned in any way with the Airport 5. Do they then join CUSA in 2005 or do they stay in a dying WAC? At some point in all of this, UNT would have had to devote resources or they're like Rice or worse. No Sun Belt type championship runs in the WAC or CUSA without it.

Wing Zone and Family Pack (requires 4 seats). I said unless they want to sit in the end zone...

Depends on the opponent. I already said the UT/LSU/OU etc aren't coming to Apogee where $160+ seats might be common. Likely its a middle of the road or lower P5. Those teams have much smaller traveling fan bases, especially to visit a G5 school. That keeps the scalper market way down. Unless they want to sit in the end zone, I'm guessing there's not a huge market for middle to lower P5 fans for one game that would get the prices above $160 per ticket And with a P5 on the schedule, don't be surprised by a season ticket price hike, whether it's a good idea or not.

You do know UConn is in the AAC and Colorado St is in the MWC, right?

Texas plays at Rice because they've lost most of their presence in Houston. aTm and LSU are bigger players in Houston than UT. Even lowly UH has challenged their presence there, drawing bigger TV numbers than UT.

I understand the disappointment. If you had an Okie State type announcement, then the UH announcement, you'd be loving both of them. A P5 and an upper tier G5 would be a major schedule upgrade. UH is an upgrade over most of your OOC scheduling, but it doesn't meet your hope and expectation level. Keep building the program on the field. Keep building fan support in the stands. Do that and you'll get closer to what you want (I say it that way because in the current system, us G5 programs will never get what we all want, scheduling equality).

SMU could not keep UNT out of the SWC if they had accomplished similar to UH. And SMU could not stop UNT outside the SWC just like Rice couldn't stop UH. There was no need for UT to attempt to control UNT at any point in time as UNT was never considered a threat. Agreed UNT was recruiting AA Athletes before anyone else in TX, including some players that became very prominent both in college and the pros, but none were headline makers for HS recruiting like Warren McVea. They became great at UNT. UNT recruitment of the AA athlete was not considered a challenge to power at UT. North Texas was good in the late 60s and a few years in the mid 70s, but a force? Ranked one year in one poll is not enough to get considered as either a needed asset or a challenge to power. Maybe enough to keep an eye on and if bigger success occurred or success was constant, then maybe UNT has to be dealt with positively or negatively. But that didn't happen and UNT went another direction.

I'm just trying to learn here although I'm sure some will take offense, what did UNT do, especially on the field, to earn their way to the SWC or Big 8? The SWC wanted nothing to do with Houston either. UH tried to join the SWC from the time we put our first team on the field. Of course we got no support either. Rice actively tried to destroy UH athletics. At UH's first football practice, Rice offered to scrimmage. UH expected a casual practice, but a very good Rice team brought refs, fans, and the press and demolished our team in order to humiliate the program in front of the city of Houston. Rice Stadium? It was originally built for both Rice and UH and was to be named Houston Stadium. But Rice took it over as their own, leaving UH to play at their former high school stadium. Twice Rice offered to sponsor UH for membership prior to SWC meetings, but pulled out right when meetings began so UH couldn't attempt to find another sponsor. So how did UH finally get in the SWC? Finishing ranked from 1968-1971 (and would have been ranked in 1967 but the AP only ranked 10 teams then). Beating #1 Michigan St. Leading the country in offense 3 years in a row. The Astrodome was a huge recruiting tool (yes facilities had an impact then too). UH was becoming a dominant force in recruiting African American athletes in TX, players schools like UT didn't even want to recruit. So UT needed to take some control. They sponsored UH for membership, and that's where the control started taking place. UH couldn't join SWC football for 5 years (1976, other sports started in 1971). SWC opponents could even choose UH's home stadium for the first few years. Only UT and aTm took advantage of this, forcing UH to play its first conference games against them at Rice Stadium instead of the Dome. So I'm sorry if you feel UH screwed you over while in the SWC, but we forced our way into it, something UNT couldn't do.

There are some UH fans trashing UNT, just like there are UNT fans trashing adding UH to the schedule. But as I said in another post, most of the UH fan frustration in that thread is directed towards the UH AD. Until the announcement of Washington St having a home and home (announced after UNT), the current UH AD had not scheduled a P5 team. I read here all the time the same frustration with UNT being unable to host a P5 opponent.

No offense, but what team that will come to Apogee is going to sell season tickets? Season ticket sales tend to increase fastest when the biggest individual games are going to sell out. So what opponent is going to do that? Your bigger draw Texas/border state teams (UT, aTm, OU, LSU) etc aren't coming to Apogee. Your medium draw Texas teams (Tech, Baylor, etc) might sell out, but it's not guaranteed, and definitely not a pre-season guarantee that would drive season ticket sales. Fans would take a chance on getting them when individual seats go on sale or figure that if it is a sell out, scalper prices would be cheaper than season tickets. Maybe UNT could sell mini-season ticket packages to get those like UH did to get Louisville tickets last year. Your medium draw non-Texas P5 teams (Oregon St, Okie St, Louisville) might not come to Apogee, and if they do, no guarantee of sell out because of unfamiliarity with them, even if they are average to above average P5. Not going to drive season ticket sales even if they bump that game up some. Your low draw P5 teams (Indiana, Kansas, Virginia) are unlikely to sell out because of unfamiliarity and lack of traveling opponent's fans. Again maybe an increase in game sales, but not season ticket sales. Again I say no offense. Houston has been in the same boat and while the situation has improved, is still in that boat although less than UNT because we have had more recent success on the field and with ticket sales. Washington State was announced yesterday as a future home and home with Houston. Washington St is not going to drive UH season ticket sales except maybe to prevent a drop in sales like having another FCS school might cause. Possible exception if Leach is still coaching there since he's very familiar to UH fans.

They're too busy playing Liberty in 2018 and 2019. :-) But seriously, it looks like they only play 1 road OOC a year and they've got a road OOC game scheduled every year until 2028

Don't like Scout? Here's the Coogfans thread on the series. http://www.coogfans.com/t/home-and-home-with-unt/7046

Yay! UH just signed a home and home with Washington State, lowering the UNT complaint level

The biggest complaint UH fans have is the same one UNT fans have. The current AD has not been able to schedule a P5 series. All of the P5 games we currently have scheduled were signed by the prior AD

I just don't see this right now. That would give UH 2 road OOC games and no home games scheduled. Maybe if UH already had 2 or even 1 home OOC signed, it would make more sense. But filling up the away OOC schedule with nothing at home would limit the flexibility and bargaining position to complete the scheduling. Unless maybe UH is picking up Army as a home game in 2019.