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Stadiums get built and said pigs end up on my plate. Pigs were seriously harmed in the taking of this photo: All I can think about is the next time I get to tailgate. Pass the paper towels please.

I predicted 46-15. I bet I'm not far off. Don't care tonight. I'm dying my beer green and pretending it's Kool-aid. Cheers! Why do I suddenly feel like making a trip over to Jupiter coffee house with full UNT regalia?

It'll take about ten years worth of student fees to pay of their half of the stadium's tab. After that, will they keep the fee going and hopefully sock some money away to substantially increase funding for, oh, I don't know....salaries?

I move that the members of gmg.com collectively put in to purchase a brick, seat, or whatever they're selling in Flyer's name as a show of appreciation for his efforts.

I vote today, I give tomorrow. I will reiterate that now more than ever the athletic department better start showing some appreciation to the $500 donations from recent grads. They're the potential big donors of the future.

I'm voting for the tailgate scene that keeps the support going. I was absolutely dumbfounded to hear that the past AD didn't allow it. I will reiterate that my alma mater has a baseball team that damn near won the whole thing a couple years ago, but it doesn't matter. Baseball isn't an all day affair with tailgating, bands, RVs, BBQs and cheerleaders. Football is the only sport that is an event. You make the pre and post game festivities good enough, and enough people will show up and support the team. You add a shiny new stadium and a winning team, and you're gonna see all 30,000 of those seats filled in no team. I've got nothing to go back to at Irvine. The students at UNT (including me thank you veddy much) have just assured that I'll have something to come back to in Denton for many many years to come.

Good lord. I just realized that 2800 students voted for the stadium, and there were 2000 on the facebook group. You think that was the tipping point?

At least there is now solid reason to believe it will get better.

Suck it vandals!

Me in the bookstore on Tuesday morning: Give me some of those things you cheer with, a couple giant foam fingers, one of those things you yell through! Hey! Green jello shots for everybody!! Now doesn't someone around here owe us the tip of his pinky finger?

I was having trouble getting on a couple minutes ago.

T minus two minutes. Think the sga website will be up to the traffic?

A backdoor way to do it: Bond it out. I checked and I found examples of cities issuing general obligation bonds to build athletic facilities. Maybe the university itself can't do that, but the city and/or county of Denton sure can. The tax revenue to pay the bond comes from the residents of Denton city and/or county, many of whom are UNT students, many of those being "no" voters. So the sticky wicket is that if it gets bonded out, the university doesn't have exclusive rights to it, so you put into the original paperwork that UNT gets up to 7 home football games every year and that it gets first crack at scheduling those games. You spend the rest of the year hosting Phish concerts and Lilith Festivals to keep the Jupiter crowd happy. As long as we can air the place out by late August, it's a win-win. Yes, I know. It's an absurd idea. I was sleeping, the dogs woke me up, and now I'm in a state of semi-consciousness.

I corresponded with the SGA office and asked them how they anticipated any impending demands for a re-vote considering the online debacle. Here is the response: Mind you I never phrased my inquiry in a way that could be construed as a threat or as one of taking one particular side. I asked if they anticipated the losing side demanding a re-vote.

I think the answer to your question can be summed up thusly: The Entire State of Lousiana

OK. Here's the plan guys. My inability to vote online this week seriously brought doubt in my mind that I was a student of the status that I thought I was. If my status change had not gone through as planned, I would not be able to get financial aid, my educational dream would be over, and I would have to return to the corporate sales world {shudder}. This was a very stressful proposition which compelled me to go to graduate admissions like a blithering idiot to ask if I was indeed a student. It was stressful and embarrassing. I then had to schlep over to the SGA office and wait it out while they typed and printed a paper ballot for me. I'm still not 100% convinced that my vote will even be counted. I received no receipt for my vote. Having just finished the section on tort law in BLAW class, I think I've got a viable case to bring emotional distress suit against SGA, the University, and Students against a new stadium. With the deep pockets of these three groups, I imagine I can get at least a $30 million settlement out of the deal. I can then make a gift to the athletic department, and we're on our way! (Gift includes unlimited admission to the new stadium equivalent of the deck for me and all my tailgating buddies and none of the small donor attitude.) *For all you lawyers out there, I know this isn't even remotely real, and that emotional distress comes under intentional tort. But it's fun to dream.

Custom logo lava lamps. Freak custom photo lamps. Custom glitter lamp. A custom lamp you could probably put a mini helmet on. Custom iron lamp? But I'll be an SMU fan if I can find a custom tiffany style lamp. While we're at the scavenger hunt for unusual UNT items, anyone know where I can get my hands on a UNT tap handle?

I think it'll come to a re-vote either way. If the referendum passes, the vocal anti-stadium people will raise hell just as we will if it doesn't. ETA -- I just sent SGA an email asking how they anticipate dealing with the likelihood that the losing side will demand a re-vote because of the numerous technical issues with the online vote. Let's see if they answer.

It's OK to be dirty as long as you don't drop the soap when you're cleaning up!

Yeah, I'll just go back to watching UC Irvine football...Wait a minute...DAMMIT!!!!

I just tells it like it is.

That's pretty much what I gathered in the office.

Maybe not, but he can

Just verified my degree seeking status with admissions, and am sitting in the SGA office making them provide me with a paper ballot. Chalk up another yes vote.

I need some contact information on that. I can't do it today or tomorrow, but I'll be back on campus Thursday. Is there a physical office I can go harass?