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This is pretty much where I am. Young teams rarely play consistent week to week. I think we've seen our floor against UTEP and Florida and maybe our top level the 2nd half of OU. I'm guessing we get a mixed bag this week as well and luckily Kentucky just doesn't have the roster that Florida does. I think we get a relatively frustrating win and frankly that would be fine with me. We need to try to get more consistent, stay healthy and stack wins during this phase of the schedule.
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I'm not telling you that you are wrong and I have no doubt it was a great setup. I'm just trying to offer advice given lack of sales. I've attended several of yours and can attest to how solid they are. But I'm just letting you know that nobody in the group we were with had interest in a Texas specific tailgate on that trip as everyone wanted to check out the Gainesville vibe. I think if it were a night game and people thought there would have been enough time to do both, your ticket sales would have reflected that.
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I think what hurts attendance at a place like Florida (or TN next year) is a lot of people are making the trip for the first time and want to take in and walk around the campus, drink and eat in local restaurants/bars and otherwise experience from that perspective vs. a tailgate with longhorns. Most I know that went to Florida didn't stay in Gainesville so only experienced campus area pregame. I think you would have had better attendance at Florida had it been a night game as people could have done both.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I don't think this has anything to do with CJ one way or the other and certainly not the staff pushing Gibson out the door mid-season (unless an unreported culture issue which I doubt is the case). Gibson is just looking out for himself by preserving his RS. He knows he's not getting 1st or 2nd team carries absent multiple injuries. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Skipper replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Hopefully the RB room can stay healthy and this won't impact us but stuff like this (happening across college football no doubt) is another reason the redshirt rule needs to just go away. Every athlete should get up to 5 seasons of eligibility period. That's it. No 4 game rule. No injury redshirt (although I could be convinced otherwise on this point). But if a player signs on to a team for a year, they should be expected to finish that year out or lose any Revshare/NIL benefits. From Gibson's perspective, it makes complete sense to leave the team now as he hasn't burned a shirt and gets to retain this year of eligibility, but we just need to remove the entire concept from the equation. He could stay here and be a depth piece and potentially get a chance to either carve out a role for himself here or help his value in the portal if we end up needing to play him. Instead, it's essentially a wasted year for him and a wasted roster slot for Texas.- 7861 replies
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Skipper replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
I can't make tonight (tix already traded for later game) and also can't make this Thurs or next Tues with youth sports. Anyone looking to buy tix to Thurs or next Tues before I list? In 105N. Our season ticket price is $138 per this year. Haven't checked 'market' but would take something less than that I'm sure for early season weeknight. -
Someone in our group mentioned there was a part of the midway this year closer to the stadium (maybe where the busses came in?) that you had to show (not scan) your ticket to get through. I wonder if they tried to do a mini "outer fence" on that side. But I 100% agree the outer fence would solve the problem. They did that for the Stars Winter Classic game. Huge outer fence and it was so much easier to move around for a sold out event. Of course, the only fair park attendees that day were going to the game so the 'fair' is what makes it such a unique setting but also pain in the ass for crowd management.
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Pretty clear from the posts that it's a night and day difference between if you were on the renovated west side or non-renovated east side which happened to also be the side everyone was baking in the sun so non-renovated concourses extra crowded. The west side was much improved. Hopefully when they work on the east side the mensa candidates designing it can add a few more urinals to the restrooms. It's not rocket science. Only 4 urinals in a restroom meant to be utilized by 1000+ people is true design malpractice, but still overall much better and next season i'm just going to go scout out where a bigger restroom is pregame.
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Anyone that prefers that is a moron.
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I don't remember if it was this thread or another thread but a poster was taking the position Sark can't win big games and in support of that position claimed that neither @ A&M with the SEC Championship game on the line for the winner or either of the 2 playoff wins last year were "big games". That is the kind of 'fan' I was referring to in my post that would claim yesterday isn't a big game W.
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This. Their LT held just about every play in the first half and no calls.
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That was definitely significantly better line play yesterday than I expected even in an optimistic scenario considering the quality of opponent. Hopefully can start to build some confidence. Clear weak link of the team but if they can continue to improve our season outlook changes significantly. Hopefully we all look back as Florida as the ass kicking they needed to step up and get better. Need to rewatch game but I thought Brooks played better after a rough start and see that is a consensus. Tough position for him to be put in but encouraging he held up ok.
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On the upper west side the renovations really helped this. So much more room now. Where we were was the best for in game beer sales easily. Never a wait longer than a couple of minutes and enough open space that they weren't in the way.
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Well I've been to 27 and only a handful have been 2:30 kicks so that hits different. Last year waited too late for our Fletchers and stood in line too long around noon. This year did that at 10:30 and sole focus until leaving for game at that point was beer. But hey, clearly fair food is really important to you so will gladly stop engaging.
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The way yesterday went is exactly why I said it would be absolutely idiotic to play Mateer under the circumstances. Thankfully they have a head coach who is indeed that idiotic. If yesterday plays out exactly the same with Hawkins, they largely would have gotten a free pass from the national media, and while their own fans would still be pissed, they would be confident all could be salvaged once Mateer is back. Instead, Venables back squarely on the hot seat with his fan base and season could easily crater from here. Love it.
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