oldguystudent

For portable hookups, as there are beer kiosks in the stadium, you only need a jockey box, and those can usually handle 2-3 taps each.

Because like, you know, oh, EVERY SPORTS STADIUM IN THE WORLD seems to be able to pull it off.

I have no substantiation for this, but I wouldn't be surprised one bit to see it go up to $7 or $8 this year. SMU charged $9 last year (though I think those looked closer to 20 ounces) and they were considerably more expensive than that at the Cotton Bowl for the HOD Bowl. Current state of UNT athletics is to bring everything "up to market," not, "give the existing fans a little bit of a break."

It's been about six or seven years since I've been the ole' reliable UNT football gameday beer chugger. Never in the first three games of the year anymore. This year, not in the first five.

There's only one game this year when I can even consider drinking beer, but still -- it's the principle of the matter!

You know, I think this would be good for the conference as a whole. Just sayin'

Fair point. I was thinking back to an alumni association even that I think combined Octoberfest with watching the Ohio game in 2013 held at the pavilion. I enjoyed that event and thought similar get togethers would be pretty swell without needing the greater resources required to open the Hub Club.

Exactly the scenario I was thinking of!

I'm sure this has been discussed before -- do they intend to expand the number of activities they use the pavillion for outside of football game days?

What are they doing? Dunking their rings in the fountain?

I'm with ya 100% buddy.

Chad Morris seemed to take particular delight in demoralizing us at SMU. I can't imagine he won't do the same if he can at Arkansas.

Was noted in parenthetical remarks.

You should probably have quoted the guy who asked the question, not my response.

Talk about future schedules. At some point, things gotta turn, and we're going to get that signature win. Who's it gonna be? Arkansas Houston (not P5, but would still be a pretty big win) Cal Tech A&M (This would get the entirety of College Station fired) Wisconsin

That's a historically dangerous question to ask. I think a good majority of the regular posters here are donors at some level. Some more than others, but even the hint of challenging or God forbid, a pissing war into who pays how much, is a perilous game to play.

She's aiming Ivy/MIT/Cal Tech with UTD and UT on the radar (I...I just don't know if I can go on living if she becomes a Longwhorn). UNT is still on the table for financial matters and the fact that she might have opportunities here that she might not get in higher profile programs. She's likely to be published this coming year, which I doubt many other programs are offering at the sophomore level.

There is so much collective love in this fan base.

She won a funded research fellowship for the summer and has been working in a lab over the past year as a research assistant. But you go on with your expertise of everything, young man.

I think UNT's issue right now is that while there are certainly some top notch programs, they are not all top notch across the board. UNT is still on the board for my daughter, but she's telling me flat out that she wants, and I quote, "More difficult classes." She's leaning toward engineering, and she's not finding much substance there at UNT yet. Granted, she'll only be in sophomore classes this coming year, and I always maintain the first two years are pretty much the same whether you go to Cisco Jr. College or Harvard. I don't know what the reality is vs. perception for her case, and I think that's a big part of the problem. It's impossible for me to ferret out the facts.

Does it increase the number of weeknight football games?

We should aspire to be no less than the program that gets Nick Saban fired.

I anticipate a certain eventuality of getting priced out of my club seats so they can be occupied by somebody who will pay more than I do. If/When that day arrives, I don't know what I'll do going forward. Fresh out of grad school, (still) burdened with student debt, and entry level in my profession, It was a bit of a financial stretch for me when I signed on for them, so I do feel some level of entitlement to them today. I would probably be resistant to downgrading after all of it. (Insert certain members who will inevitably tell me to suck it up and pay MOAR)

So anywho, the point of the post wasn't for us to shit on current numbers. Way I read this whole thing is that we've long known the numbers have been shitty. Now the athletic department is putting it out there for all to see, which says to me complacency isn't the rule of the day -- they've got a public scoreboard to increase. That's how I read it. Call me Pollyanna, I guess, but as a former sales dude, public comparisons like that would motivate the hell out of me.

I didn't catch that name. He is a good guy and this is good news.