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This had to be the punishment for losing a bet somehow.
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For reference, we were west side upper deck. Things that were improved: Entry/Ingress: we were in our seats an hour before kick, but once we actually found Gate B (which has really shitty access and is wedged between the edge of the cotton bowl and an exterior building), we had an easy ride up the escalators to our seats. Restrooms (slightly) Walkways: they were less cramped than years past and expanded outwards? Still needs improvements: Squatters Signage Sound system (please don't make it Zillatron level pain but just enough to hear announcements) Seat labels in our section were basically gone Wifi/Cellular coverage: put up some temp towers Verizon/ATT! And yes, our focus is on the game not our phones but we also have kids at home that we're trying to stay in touch with... As immamac said above if they pushed out the upper deck concourse another 25 feet all the way around, they could build a ringed walkway around the entire stadium, which would make room for more concessions, more restrooms, and better flow. It would probably cost $100MM too. Some of those buildings that abutt the stadium are ancient and are not what drive tens of thousands of people to the fair. Knock down and relocate the damn foot court building to make room for expansion of the stadium!
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Aside from beating OU by a million, what is your ultimate TX/OU weekend list of stuff to do outside of the game? For this weekend, we are leaving from Austin on Thursday around noon. We'll stop in West at the Czech Stop and get some kolaches/klobasknics and gorge on those on the drive up. From there we're bypassing Dallas and heading up to Choctaw casino to burn some money and steal some from the Okies. Friday morning we have a 8:30AM tee time for the couples on the trip, after that unwind back at the casino and get a decent steak dinner there. Saturday drive down early to enjoy the fair, beer in a wax cup and corn dog and see an OU beat down. We're old so after the game we don't have a ton planned - maybe hit a bar and watch whatever other games are on. Sunday sleep in and get brunch somewhere (recommendations?) before heading back down to Austin. What are your go-to's, aside from the obvious "beat OU by infinity," and "get a beer in a wax cup and corndog."
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Horn of Gabriel replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
If we lose to Kentucky that will be dangerous to wear because the entire state will be on fire -
I'm just saying, we made the playoff semis twice in a row, and then Mack Brown starts showing up again and we SUCK. I'm JUST SAYIN'...
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Horn of Gabriel replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
I bought their winter jacket last year, I really like it. -
It's Friday assholes.... time for SEC play
Horn of Gabriel replied to Longboard Horn's topic in Football
Bitch, we from TEXAS -
Art Briles: New Head Coach of Mount Vernon High School in Texas
Horn of Gabriel replied to Landomatic's topic in Football
Didn't the various investigations/TX monthly reporting show that he enabled a similar culture @ Stephenville HS? I think there was a rape there too. -
I want to know what is the PE asking for in the deal? They don't give money without getting a positive ROI back, and that means control. Are the universities and AD's willing to cede control over hiring/firing within the AD? Or the coaches? Or changing how they do sponsorship deals? Or their scheduling? Those are all things the PE are going to want. Of course the PE is dating, not married, so they're going to paint a rosy picture of the future, but having been through multiple PE transactions myself, it will never work out the way that they say. They always say "we're going to invest and make the business grow!" ...more likely they're coming to feast on the carcass and squeeze whatever revenue they can before they flip it to another more ruthless PE firm who will do it again until the whole thing collapses. You can tell me experience with PE has been sub-par.
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It's a negotiation, at least partially happening publicly in the media. That's why we get owners lying about their true costs, or at a minimum not correcting people who make egregious assumptions about "the W has and never will turn a profit!," and the players are going to do it from the other side to appear reasonable by saying "hey we're just asking for the same deal the men have, not on a dollar but on a percentage-basis." Like any negotiation, it will land somewhere in the middle. The owners don't get to set the value of their labor, that is set in the market and the players do have alternatives that currently pay them more, especially the stars. The owners just need to decide if they're willing to pay the new market rate, or go for a lockout. And I guess the players need to decide if the value of the WNBA's amazing platform is worth giving a discount to on their salaries. I come down more on the side of the players than the billionaires, but none of us here know what's actually going on in the room where it happens.
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I'm not sure Adam Silver liking Cathy is a flex. The arrogance is demonstrated in that quote by Cathy, but I'm sure shared by the owners because as you said she's just a mouthpiece. Anyone who believes that CC "wouldn't be making any money if not for the platform of the WNBA" is not living in the real world. CC was making millions before the WNBA, and if she wanted to she could go join that stupid 3v3 Unrivaled league and make $1M/season playing over there too, plus her shoe deal, plus her Gatorade endorsements, plus more. The arrogance displayed by the WNBA's management and ownership is the kind of thing that if it continues could cause them to get disrupted. What happens if Unrivaled decides enough-is-enough and opens a 5v5 league that directly competes and pays players more? I could see a PGA vs. LIV type split in women's ball because the WNBA's "platform" isn't' nearly as strong as they seem to think it is, especially if their stars start opting out. I'm sure the TV partners wouldn't like that much either, and if their lawyers are smart (they are) they put some clauses in the contract for just this type of contingency.
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As discussed many times before, the profit is a red herring. Their new TV deal has gone up 6X and the W will now by making close to $500MM/year in TV money alone. The cost side of the equation 1) not disclosed by the owners, so the talking point about "losing money" is a "sure-billionaires-we'll-take-your-word-on-that" point, and 2) is also conveniently pumped up by those same billionaire team owners who have the teams play in facilities owned by them (paying themselves, loss harvesting). Just like the NBA, the billionaire owners do not buy WNBA franchises to turn a profit. They make their money on selling the franchise at 50 or 100X what they bought it for down the road. Those owners benefit greatly by the increasing values of the franchise, and the players do not. That's fine, that's what ownership is all about since they put up the money, "took the risk," whatever we want to call it. However it's selling the players short to say they don't deserve a much larger slice of the pie than they're currently getting. Caitlyn Clark's WNBA salary was $76,535 in 2024 and will go all the way up to ... $97,582 in 2027 before she's a RFA. That's less than what my company pays an entry level product manager, and it's ridiculous considering the value that CC and the players bring to the WNBA and to the owners.
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No kidding. If even half of those quotes from Cathy are accurate, she should get walked out the door immediately. Talk about working against your own self-interest. Such unjustified arrogance.
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Can someone explain the structure/scoring for the Ryder cup, for a newbie?
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Hope those NIL checks cleared...
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I would love for a reporter to ask Dabo "is Clempson-ing back?" just to see him explode in righteous indignation. The fuse it lit, do it.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
Maybe there are a handful at IT or elsewhere on the internet, there's always idiots. I think Waddlington is doing a straw man argument to make himself look smart vs. "the others." Both can be true. -
Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
Yes! You put words on it, that's what bugs me. "...and for all those people who just want to say 'the OL is fine and it just needs time to gel!', well you can continue to say that but you'll be wrong!" ...Uhh, NO ONE is saying that. At all. It's fine to point out obvious stuff but inventing and pretending there is some huge group of naysayers taking the opposite opinion just to puff up your own obvious takes is annoying. I also have an allergic reaction to arrogant people, especially if their arrogance is unwarranted. You can be arrogant if you've earned it; Paul Waddlington hasn't. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Horn of Gabriel replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Mostly because I don't think Arch can hit enough of those plays to make a difference. Sark is obviously going to be running Arch more so I'd be run blitzing to wreck Arch on those, and if he is trying to throw he shows a propensity to hold the ball for way too long which will create sacks. The 3-high shell limits explosives. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Horn of Gabriel replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
We are going to wreck Sam Houston, but then this problem on offense will get worse before it gets better. If you're a SEC defensive coordinator, you're licking your chops. Texas has a QB that is having trouble with basic short and intermediate passes, but sees his strength as the deep pass, but is easily rattled. What do you do? 3-high safety shell to take away any deep ball - UTEP did this Single cover the WRs who the QB can't hit anyway in short passes and/or play soft zone - all SEC defenses can do this easily Stack the box to kill the run game that the Texas O-line can't push anyway - cantwait.gif Blitz over and over Even if Arch stumbles into a handful of slants or seam passes, SEC defenses are going to make him dink/dunk down the field now - because he can't do it. And we can't run it well enough either. -
Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
Waddlington has obviously read Rippetoe's Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training and subscribes to the methods described there as "Strength = Ability to Apply Force against an External Resistance." What he leaves out is that Rip also says that a novice will demonstrate incredible strength gains for months or even years, especially a genetically gifted 18-year old, even in a sub-standard training program. Basically if you weight train an undertrained novice, they will progress, period. Of course a better program with a Novice Linear Progression is always best. If Waddlington is going to go with Rippetoe, the better definition would be Power (aka Explosion), which is the ability to express Strength rapidly. The standing vertical jump is a good examples of demonstrating and measuring power production vs. squat or deadlift for strength. Unfortunately, power is less trainable than strength, it's very genetic. Nowadays, kids showing up are usually trained. They've been doing weight training for 5-8 years at least. They're beyond the novice phase and into intermediate where the gains are slower. So the training programing needs to be different. I suspect that while yes maybe the S&C program could be improved, the issue in the o-line is less raw power and more technique (pad level, leg drive), genetic gifts, and especially coordination. It's not lack of strength that is making our O-line trip on their own feet and fall on their face, or dive and miss a cut block, or miss on a reach or combo block. https://startingstrength.com/article/the-state-of-strength-conditioning-coaching -
Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
I can't for the life of me figure out why Paul Waddlington, who maxed out as an undersized LB/EDGE in H.S., has a following. He's not a coach, aside from his kids peewee team. He doesn't have experience. I guess he uses big words to sound smart? He points out obvious stuff and uses rhetorical traps to call anyone who would disagree with him stupid? -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
Horn of Gabriel replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
Can you say more about this? The model that @MrBig posted I think looks great, even if not feasible/practical. Today our stadium looks like someone threw it together using 4 different lego sets. But you know what makes people not give a shit about what the stadium looks like? Winning. -
I Don't Want To Make This Poll, But its unfortunately necessary.
Horn of Gabriel replied to immamac's topic in Football
Why the hell not? Saban had the stones to pull his QB in the national championship game. If we're worried about recruiting elite QB talent, which is worse: 1) If you're a total failure we will keep trotting you out there to get destroyed and then mocked after your post-game presser until you crater the season and then transfer, or 2) We will give you every opportunity to grow and succeed and make the best of your talent - and we will always put the needs of the team over the individual. Nothing is guaranteed at Texas including the QB spot and if you're an elite talent you should welcome that ability to come in and win the spot by outplaying the other 5*'s around you. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 9.15 - 11:30am
Horn of Gabriel replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
To be fair, I said we shouldn't have a rebuilding year. We've had rebuilding decades due to bad coaching hires.
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