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  1. Is the thought that they want to connect it to 6th thinking it would bring foot traffic from there? I think 7th is pretty valuable for traffic flow connecting 35 with Guadalupe, especially during the commuting hours. 8th is too but less so than 7th. These allow traffic flowing from downtown to UT/MLK to avoid the main commuter flows of 5th/6th (35/Mopac connect) and 1st (a cluster fuck everyone should avoid at all costs). I don’t care greatly since I no longer have to be in downtown as often, and agree that 9th, 10th, and 11th could easily be closed off.
  2. I agree with this completely, and I tend to disagree with you 9 out of 10 times.
  3. Georgia fans travel. They may not all have tickets but lots of them here. Along with some douchbags from the Peach Bowl wearing jackets with a big peach logo.
  4. It’s fucking insane over here. So many people just around everywhere…
  5. For those interested the below our the guest pickers that have been in Austin (not counting Texas/Oklahoma games which have been either Mark Cuban or OU people) 2022-TCU Jordan Spieth 2022-Alabama Glenn Powell 2019-LSU Matthew McConaughey 2009-Tech Lance Armstrong
  6. He did it when Alabama came to town in 2022. They try not to repeat guest pickers too often.
  7. ABC’s deal with the SEC with Texas and Oklahoma has been a major hit for the network. They are routinely capturing 4+ million viewers across all three windows. Only OOC weeks 2&4 and aggy’s blowout of Mizzou failed to top 4 million. Last year ABC hitting 4 million across all windows was very rare and this year it’s more common than not. On the other side, viewership on CBS is down 33% through week 7. So far only Michigan/USC in week 4 topped the SEC game from the same week last year. CBS turned down the SEC tier one rights and ended up paying MORE money to the Big Ten for an inferior product. I find that amusing.
  8. Per the NCAA’s website the are 121 FBS/FCS matchups this year and this is twice the number as their were a decade ago. I’ll die on the hill. It’s shit football, it’s shit for ticket holders, fans, TV, players, FCS teams and basically everybody except coaches who pad their win totals and bank accounts. I don’t understand the push back. BAD football that brings in more money = Good GOOD football that brings in more money = Bad and I feel the same way about the NFL (though I don’t watch that nearly as much). Preseason NFL is dumb, limiting stupid preseason games is ideal, and making fans pay for that preseason games is a ripoff.
  9. First…never going stop, self righteous cunt for life bitch Texas doesn’t schedule FCS teams. Texas previously only scheduled 1 G5 team but moved to 2 and now 3 in the last few year which I do not enjoy. I do NOT watch these crappy FCS games (no one does, numbers validate this, NDSU/CU is the exception to this rule) and few watch G5 games. Bill Snyder and K State fucked this up. We’ve first hand with aggy bragging about their record of the last decade when they scheduled 3 easy wins to our 1. The world is not a vacuum, if K State does this then Iowa State does it, then Iowa, then Wisconsin, and then soon all the way to Ohio State. As long as people, recruits, sportswriters, and the committee put emphasis on records and bowls are easily accessible and coaches get bonuses for getting 6 wins it’s not going to organically stop. It would require new rules or regulations. The SEC saw this as a problem and passed a rule that all teams must play at least one power 5 opponent each year.
  10. How about one G5, one Big Ten, and one ACC/B12? Which is basically what we did 2012-2018…
  11. Yes! This would be far healthier for the sport. I’m not sure how this is even an argument. I find it funny that on the last page huck accused me of caring about how much money Texas and the SEC make, but then doc comes in and says we need more BAD football because these schools need more than 6 home game for…money…? It’s NOT healthy for the sport of college football to schedule like Ole Miss and Ohio State. Please explain how giving schools free wins so coaches can get bowl eligible to play in front of a half empty meaningless bowl game and get a bonus helps make this sport better. We’ve made fun of SEC cupcake week for YEARS, so why people are suddenly defending it? It bottles the mind.
  12. FBS top 25 Ranked teams versus FCS teams just this year in the 1st three weeks of the season: Oregon played Idaho Ole Miss played Furman Tennessee played Chattanooga Iowa played Illinois State Mizzou played Murray State LSU played Nicholls State Miami played Florida A&M Georgia played Tennessee Tech Nebraska played Northern Iowa This is pathetic. End of argument.
  13. Yes, again when have I ever said we shouldn’t play Rice? I said ban FCS games and limit G5 games to 2 max. That is what Texas has been doing during its worst years. I’m not sure how this is controversial. I, and every Texas fan should be embarrassed if we ever scheduled like Ohio State has this year.
  14. I posted the schedule from 1999 for Texas above. The Bill Snyder K State scheduling bullshit is bullshit. For years Texas has only had 6 home games. TV revenue is at an all time high, the argument for that 7th or 8th game is dumb. It not a financial issue, it’s coaches trying to pad their stats for bonus money. Let’s schedule pointless games at the beginning of the season so we can play in a pointless bowl game at the end of the season. This is what is wrong with college football.
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