oldguystudent

I seem to be the only person alive who feels like going to a game at UT Arlington is akin to watching a game at Disneyland's Toontown. I suppose my opinion is just flat out wrong, but man I just don't get the place.

Was this really even a problem in 2016? I certainly recall it in previous years, but it seemed like they kinda cracked down on it last year, and that the fraternity tailgates were widely abandoned when I exited the stadium.

Domino's?

Nothing like pining for the good ole hostile tailgating days of Fouts. Things were better then.

I recently noticed that their house appears to be occupied by somebody else. Did they get ousted again?

Oh, I'm pretty certain my concerns have been voiced.

Translation: Not gonna happen in my lifetime

Steeply discounted tickets for recent grads have always been a thing. I don't remember them being free though. That's pretty cool.

I think they went back to the original recipe around 2010ish, right? I was sucking them down in J&J's around 2005. I have no shame.

Yes, yes, the new perennial national sport of beer shaming. I am inferior in your presence, good sir. Incidentally, having never seen one in the wild prior to this past Saturday afternoon, I ordered and consumed my first, and last, Pearl beer. It wasn't offensive like a Miller High Life left in the garage through six Texan summers as much as it was completely devoid of any flavor whatsoever. It is truly the first beer that I wouldn't be able to differentiate from club soda in a blind taste test. I was almost impressed that somebody could extract alcohol out of grains and have it come out that neutral.

I believe the Flying Tomato burned to the ground one year before I enrolled in classes. Previous trips to Denton had never much ventured near Fry Street, so I never got to experience it. I therefore can have no valid horse in this race. I did, however, really enjoy drinking $1.50 cans of Schlitz in J&Js while my then wife would spend hours upon endless hours fawning over shiny trinkets in the Denton Square consignment stores.

Dear God. What could possibly go wrong here? I do appreciate the verbiage though -- "A chance" to pick up your tickets. Like maybe they'll have them. Maybe they won't. We may never know! I remain skeptical on this particular issue until I see concrete evidence of improvement. My last experience having been to receive my bowl tickets in the mail two days after the game with the delightful staff in the ticket office calling me a liar the day before the game, I need to see some serious f'ing improvement here. I don't care about frat boys drinking on the hill, UNT vs. North Texas, who puts what stripes on the groins of the uniforms, what flavor of beer gets sold in the stadium, how many times they fire the cannon, what the marching band wears to bed on a Sunday evening, or whether Flying Tomato or the J&J's basement is the greater loss to Denton. But basic operational functionality. I'll rant on this one until it at the very least appears to be running at a 6 on a scale of 1-10.

So just out of curiosity, the mean green club emails about this campaign keep saying that the deadline for basketball season tickets is September 8th. I suppose if you already had tickets and want to maintain your seats, that would matter, but since virtually the entire arena is open for sale, what are they gonna do if I walk up to the department with a check in my hand on September 9th? Refuse to take my money? I get what they're trying to do, but the ole "create a sense of urgency" trick from Sales 101 is a little thin and easy to see through here. Not meant to be a criticism. Just an observation.

From my experiences trying to purchase single game tickets, they need a ticket office. Period.

I am live and let live on this topic. It is the responsibility of the athletic department to market this product and get people to pay and attend. It is not on us to impose such things on others. I spend my Saturdays as I so choose and so do they. If we're really worried about a bunch of teenagers slovenly stumbling about the hill, throwing discarded red solo cups all about, well, the UNT Police Department has really cracked down on that stuff since the Fouts days.

Damn, dude. I looked at available reserved seats. Pretty much all center court, front row. They're truly starting this thing from scratch.

That made me physically nauseous. I need to send this to my child now.

Do I correctly remember George openly complaining about the crappy facilities during that game?

That was brutal. What was up with that?

I like the idea, and I really like the Tesla autopilot that's already in place, but even making a run up to Winstar is a risky endeavor under current limitations, and I'm too much of a spontaneous roadtripper. On an unrelated note, my college girlfriend drove a Volvo. I have a lot of fun memories with that particular make of vehicle. A lot of fun memories.

Not built in, no. Unless you want to count the seats in the suites, but I don't think that was your intent.

I could be entirely wrong here, but don't they half heartedly ban the clip on chairbacks because the plastic ones are available for purchase?

Insert popcorn.gif here.

If Todd Dodge had gone 37-6 during his time here, he probably would've been the Sun Belt coach of the year.