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Now maybe I'm just a little rusty with my math: 2015 -- 1 win 2016 -- 5 wins (1 + 5 = 5?) 2017 -- 9 wins (5 + 5 = 9?) 2018 -- 13 wins (proposed) (9 + 5 = 13?) That's it. I'm not renewing my tickets and I'm never coming back. This is clearly a power/money/#newdenton grab by the athletic department!

They're selling single season club seats now? As for your concerns on the view, I'm in silver and assure you that when you're that high up, being close to the end zone is a non factor. The view is great. The club is super nice, and the prices you just posted give me a little assurance that I'll at least be able to keep my seats for another year.

Yellowjackets need love too! (And mostly don't really do a damn thing or have any recourse if you just blow past them and ignore them, just like their apiary cousins)

Cost of attendance this year was $22,901.54. Let's assume no increases over four years. Total cost of attendance $91,606.16. I see no reason why we can't heap another couple thousand on top of that.

If my daughter chooses to remain at UNT, it will be full ride, so I am therefore advocating for a $20,000 per semester hour student athletic fee. They deserve to pay it. Just don't raise my GMG contributions!!! Again, not directed at you. I think you and I are very much on the same page in this.

You're not in Dallas anymore. The supply of D*** for slapping is precipitously lower in the outlying rural areas. This naturally drives up prices.

How does this schedule compare in difficulty to 2017?

Didn't that happen this year? UTSA and UTEP were home, Rice was away, right?

Four of six games before the fall tax deadline. Brutal for me. I'd better get indignant and say I'm not renewing or something like that.

Not targeting you at all. I don't recall you being in the "CHARGE THEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!" camp ever. In fact, not really targeting any individual, just kinda a zeitgeist beatdown right now after what I thought was a pretty great season.

I went to private religious school my whole life. Middle school (Junior high in my day, kids) didn't have sports. High school had intramural flag football and no interscholastic sports of any kind. College had (really, really, really bad) Division 1 basketball, but no football, never had it, never will. So imagine my excitement when I stepped onto campus at UNT to enroll in grad school. There was going to be a football team! There would be beer! And helmets! And tackling! And big stadiums! So in 2008, I wandered into Fouts, which having no other bar of comparison, I didn't mind, and I watched Todd Dodge, which having no other bar of comparison, I wondered how in the world anybody could be so consistently incompetent. But I had football! And beer! And really, really, really bad coaching to watch. Since then, we've got Apogee, and I've been pretty happy to have a place to go six times a year to drink BEER!, hang out with people, and watch football, and helmets, and tackling (ruled targeting if done by a player in green). And I've seen infinite ways for people to be pissed off about the whole thing. Shitty stadium leads to not big enough stadium leads to we never sell out leads to our conference sucks leads to winning our conference isn't good enough leads to I'm paying too much but charge the students MOAR! So long as I can afford it, so long as there are games six times a year, I will attend, and I will enjoy it, leaving the high blood pressure and worries of national prestige to those who prioritize such things in their lives. I'm too old to worry or care as to whether anybody is going to hire or fire me or take me on as their accountant or go on a date with me or whatever the hell else we can come up with because of the football team I follow (hint: none of that ever happens. Ever). I'm here to enjoy myself, and I will, even when Liberty (shudder) comes to town.

Comes from ole timey horse racing.

I'm trying to find out how much SMU tickets cost, but not getting much success. I did, however, find 2017 pricing for Boise St. Ticket price per seat between the 40s-- $390 I don't see ticket pricing for other locations. Required contribution per seat: Between the 40s -- $475 Between 20 and 40 -- $325 Between endzone and 20 -- $240 Endzone -- $75 I've been steeling myself for the possibility that I may get priced out of my own seats that I thought I'd purchased for life at some point. I won't like it, but it will be what will be, unless we become Ohio St. and my newly expensive seats become a profit generator to sell on third party websites.

This thread next to the "RAISE THE STUDENT FEE!" thread amuses me. I think what we're demanding of students is a $300/year increase. $130/year increase.

We have enjoyed remarkable success in the kicking game since 2011. I hope this is a continuation of that, but man, that Arkansas video is brutal.

For a first world technologically advanced democratic nation, we sure do have one hell of a time conducting elections at all levels.

Am I reading the tickets correctly that general admission put you in football seats while premium puts you in basketball seats?

@Cerebus I was on campus today and noticed that the pedestrian bridge between Fouts and Apogee was gated off so people couldn't use it. Why is that? Isn't the red/blue lot campus parking on not game days? Edit: I was on campus again today, and realized I had just seen the bridge from a weird angle. What I thought was gated off was just a fence perpendicular to the main walkway.

The IHOP does not meet the aesthetic standards of our elderly alumni and therefore must go. (No seriously. It's going away because it's not pretty enough)

Without putting any thought into this whatsoever, I can pretty much always come to the following conclusion: Given: NCAA is making a rules change. Therefore: It will help P5 schools and disadvantage G5 schools. Tangential outcome: SMU will proclaim it establishes them as a major power school.

She doesn't want the weekend plan. They have flex dollars and whatnot. But she really, really despises CVS.

While we're talking about campus layout, my daughter, who doesn't have a car yet, heavily laments that "The only place I can get grocery-like items around campus is CVS and their selection is crap and they cost about 20% more than the real supermarket." The retort from one person -- "Well you have a meal plan, what in the WORLD would you need a supermarket for?" Kid's response -- "My meal plan doesn't cover weekends." RIP Sack N Save. Old people hated you because you weren't pretty, but you did a great job of feeding kids like mine.

In a post O'Bannon brothers world, how do you build the brand of student-athletes?

It makes zero sense to me that a red pass would enter in one place and a blue pass would enter in another when they lead to the exact same lot. Edit: That does clear up the question I had about the yellow lot though.

What are the yellow/premium cash lots over by the softball stadium? I see those pulling into the red/blue lot on Bonnie Brae. As to red/blue, I can never figure out from year to year if I'm able to enter from North Texas Blvd. like I did in 2011. Sometimes it seems to be open, other times I seem to get a little bit of a talking too from people in yellow jackets. So unknowing as to whether I can enter from North Texas Blvd. from week to week, and having to drive down Bonnie Brae is the one inconvenience I face as it is a merely a two lane road, and I have to sit in line behind people who pull up thinking it's a cash lot, wait for them to figure out it isn't, wait for them to receive directions back to the cash lots, then wait for them to back up and turn around against traffic. That one thing really needs some serious improvement. As for opening red/blue lot to cash, people better be paying more than $25 to park there or I'm gonna get a little miffed.