A Halloween special at Hofheinz
I like to call this holiday Halloween, and it certainly turned out that way for the Cougars tonight, as an empty building on a night where nothing went quite right led to a home loss against a good, likely NCAA tournament, team, but a team that the Cougars could beat at home with an actual crowd.
The photo above was taken just before tipoff. As it illustrates, not many people turned out for the game.
The Coogs have been improving after a rocky non-conference start (or maybe it's just the sorry state of the conference -- hard to know for sure), but unless teams are winning, this can be a tough sports town -- and a record near .500 isn't enough of a draw for a team in a crap conference that plays in a dilapidated facility where the sound doesn't even work in half the building (and the staff wants to insist I'm crazy for merely pointing that out, and pointing out that fixing it might actually be in their interest). Rinky dink doesn't sell in this town, unfortunately, and all too often the UH athletics program just comes across as rinky dink.
It's too bad, because this team, like the previous Penders UH teams, is fun to watch. It deserves better.
UPDATE (02-15-2007): The official box score places attendance at 3,524. Those numbers seem wildly inflated.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/14/07 09:47 PM | Technorati | Comments (1)
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