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Skipper

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  1. But they can fit plenty of the donors that aren't on Surly but receive emails from Texas Exes who, if introduced to Texas NIL efforts at the party, might consider contributing going forward. I just think having this email blast from the Texas Exes be about the party at Mannings could have really helped One Fund. Instead, we still have Texas Exes and LHF grabbing donors to fund their over the top administrative bloat.
  2. Is Texas One Fund not frustrated they chose to compete? I mean I don't think anyone is going to pay for both parties. The vast majority of folks at your event are going to be ticket holders. I'm still relatively confident prices are going to come down to a level that anyone that pays to stay in N.O. won't break their budget to attend the game. I just think no doubt their party is going to pull away people that may have otherwise ended up at Mannings. Especially "olds" that absolutely need to be introduced to Texas One Fund.
  3. Really seems like it's bullshit. @immamac - I'm assuming they were well aware of the competing event and didn't give a shit? Too many Texas Exes administrative salaries to pay. Absolutely ridiculous.
  4. Why the fuck are the Texas Exes throwing a competing tailgate siphoning $$ away from the Texas One Fund. Just got an email. Fuck them.
  5. That's insane. Wow. It's amazing how far SWA has fallen.
  6. I don't think anyone is disputing his resume. Nor is anyone disputing he would have been a huge hire in 2010. People are questioning whether it's still a big time hire in 2024.
  7. Yep. If people just want to get in the door I don't see any reason to not wait. I think the shitty seats will end up close to if not at or below face. The mid range to good seats are a bit more unpredictable. It all depends on how much inventory comes on the market from sponsor seats (i.e., employees that get them and list instead of attend). You have a bunch of high net worth donors at both schools that just got shitty seats that will be looking to flip and buy better. The large brokers are all going to collude, keep prices high, and play chicken that most of those individuals won't fly to NOLA without seats in hand. Those fans may very well buy up a bunch at or around current pricing. But if a significant amount of premium inventory hits the market from individual sellers (which I think is a possibility), you will see intermittent relatively decent deals pop up that sell quickly then have the same scenario that played out with Big 12 championship (where club level seats ended up at or below face by night before the game and day of game as the large brokers finally started discounting in tandem).
  8. I still think Sugar bowl goes down a lot. The demand for the championship compared to the sugar bowl is just not remotely in the same ballpark.
  9. Definitely agreed with this. Texas/Michigan will be 2005 Rose Bowl except playing out online instead of around the stadium. Will be fascinating to watch and painful to pull the trigger.
  10. I have zero problem with it. Nobody selling tix is even remotely recouping what they donated to be at the front of the line. With our fickle fan base, home games typically resale at a steep discount for season ticket holders with extras so they lose money on those regularly. I didn't make cut for the sugar bowl but would be trying to flip shitty uppers to help finance better seats if I did. I think people buying need to have some patience. I'll be a bit surprised if "get in" price isn't too much above face in a couple of weeks. The more team allotted tickets that get added to the resale inventory the better for those loooking.
  11. I made those purchases and I knew what they cost. My balance was about 25% higher than I expected because of how insane pricing for everything else is right now. So in the context of a chart reflecting peak credit card balances, it just reminded me of the exact conversation I had last night (without seeing the chart) that I don't see how this doesn't all blow up in the first half of '24. My prediction is one last big consumer spending push this quarter and then a big slowdown into first half of next year with a noticeable bump on delinquencies on cards, car payments, etc.
  12. For Big 12 champ tix I had good seats but purchased around 9PM Friday night before game for about a 60 or 70% discount of what the same seats were selling for the Monday prior. I'm hoping for a similar experience with the Sugar Bowl but not quite as confident we will see the same drop.
  13. Just had a similar conversation with my wife. I always pay off card monthly but not sure I've ever had a higher current balance than when I logged in yesterday to make the payment. Granted there are extenuating circumstances (Big 12 champ tix, Sugar Bowl trip flight and hotel prepaid, refundable flight/hotel to Houston for championship game) on top of all of the typical Christmas related charges, but still, it was a bit shocking and I did a double take. It's just crazy how expensive everything is. I've got reserves to absorb it but I don't know how people living paycheck to paycheck or "budgeting" based on prior spending are handling it. The chart above is not surprising at all. Feel like this all has to come crashing down at some point in '24 but I've been saying that this entire year so who knows.
  14. Schools were only allocated 26K total tickets (out of ~77K capacity) so neither. Schools will each have their allotment in sections on their sideline. Texas is visitor. But pretty much everything for sale currently are the sections that will be mix of Texas, UW and neutral (largely sponsor/corporate/local tix that are on the market)
  15. Interesting. My buddy that was right on the edge moved down like 400 spots from where he was when he submitted his request (without additional donations)
  16. What I'm hearing is that your ranking in this range may have changed materially based on people that made supplemental donations at time of purchase (i.e., check your rank again and you likely dropped). I think I dropped some but wasn't really that close to the cutoff so didn't pay much attention to it. But it's all the more reason to just give your money to Texas One Fund where the funds will actually be used to enhance the program instead of administrative bloat that is the LHF.
  17. It may mean the broker is short selling them to you. I wouldn't be worried about getting in with similar or better seats but they are betting market cools and will be able to buy the tickets to be delivered to you for cheaper.
  18. Will the VIP/open bar be separated at all from the regular entry? May be splits in our group between drinkers that are going to take advantage of the open bar and those that may only have 1 or 2 pregame.
  19. Definitely underperforming but have played a lot of games. Obviously going to be stretches like this every year and hopefully they will come out of it. Our defense is still garbage and not sure that can be fixed but Otter has looked like a below average goalie his last several starts. I sit close to the goal visitors shoot 2X and body language after he was letting in goals on Saturday sucked. Didn't seem like he gave a shit but could say the same for the entire team. Almost like they all went on a long road trip, went out Friday night and came to work hungover.
  20. What time is the party getting started? And what would be the open bar window?
  21. It's gotten mixed reviews on here but I've had 2 (out of 2) great lunches at Luke. That is one of my 12/31 dinner reservations. I'm still hoping by a miracle Commander's or something else I had on notify (Herbsaint I think) pops up but if it doesn't I won't hesitate going there. Have not been to the other 2. FYI - we have a couple of reservations 1/1 for St. John we may be cancelling. Going to talk to them this week and see if they are able to accommodate but I think we may have more people coming than seats. I had brunch there previously (based on a rec in this thread) and it was great. We separately have Arnaud 1/1 and I know they have room for us - I just have not eaten there and have heard mixed reviews.
  22. Took my kid to the game yesterday. I'm glad he still had fun just being there because that was an absolute dogshit performance. Just pathetic across the board to show up and play like that in a big game.
  23. Never walked in a second line have you?
  24. I love a Bourbon St. bar crawl pregame (did this for 03 final four and last sugar bowl) but may try to squeeze this in as well. Looks great. I know some friends I'll be meeting up with are making the sad choice of bringing their kids to NOLA. Will minors be allowed entry (presumably via the $100 ticket?). Appreciate the effort getting this set up and everything else you do for NIL.
  25. This. I like my seats and like having them. But living in Dallas with young kids I can't make half the games and have generally lost my ass selling tix over the last decade when I can't make it. That may change next year with a better home schedule, but even this year with a top 10 team, I had no takers on here for BYU well below face (35YL seats) and ended up selling on seatgeak night before game netting like $60 each or something. To be clear, I didn't get Sugar Bowl tix (i donate my extra $$ to Texas One, not to the fucking LHF seating consequences be damned) but there is going to be a lot of bitching when foundation members list these seats in a week or so. The flip side of that is every person listing seats has also generally lost their ass on resale because we have pretty big fair weather fan base. So I personally don't begrudge any foundation member trying to make a profit. If I would have gotten seats, i absolutely would have tried to flip them for some profit and roll that into offsetting price of better seats on the secondary market.
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