KingDL1

If Bryant Gumbel & Cris Collinsworth had a sucks contest I am not really sure who would win, but I am sure it would be a shootout.

This TV crew sucks balls!

I do know who I am and I may know others.

Go Patrick!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any updates??

Mandy is a pain to the alumni also, and to me it is amazing she still has the job. She did a hideous job with parking in the blue lot.

The school did not need the bad media, it is my understanding that there was much more missing then just one flat-screen.

Don't pull my strings!!

UNT should never ever ever play at home on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It is a piss poor bad choice of a date for a team not appearing in the top 25. That is a my and many of my group's hunting trip, I know many more that plan to hunt yearly that weekend. Several others leave town to visit relatives or have relatives in town, a thanksgiving saturday home game is not a tradition at UNT. Just have an off weekend or play away period.

I am feeling a bit full myself And that dessert is still looking at me.

Happy Thanksgiving from San Angelo I am thankful for Deer hunting, I love venison. Tony

I heard that and more at the spring game, made me really glad DD and is mess is gone.

Well we just need 5 more replies to hit a hundred, that must be productive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any updates Rick? How is the girl doing?

But a great day in New Orleans.

Well just as I say that the streaming appears but the download is still not working. Thanks for the link.

So much for the link on Kntu's website to the actual audio, not there. Well does that mean there was a show? Or KNTU can't link their website correctly?

That sucks, it must have been rigged he never got more then 1%.

Anyone?

I sincerely doubt that you can give all the credit to AAC, the Uptown area was growing with a full head of steam before the project was even announced. Not that it didn't help some, but that area was well on its way to redevelopment before. But at the end of the day the argument was not against arena's anyway, they do tend to have more going on in them on a routine basis then baseball or football stadiums. During Hockey & Basketball season AAC is rolling almost nightly from September to June and it seems to be a better venue for many other events as well. I really thought the City of Dallas did not even try to make a smart deal on the AAC. Most large projects like the W in urban redevelopment get tax exemptions, waivers, or 10 - 20 years deferrals as incentives from the city.

I was stuck at work with a sick file server.

Here is one quick argument mostly dealing with Baseball, but has football thrown in there. If anything Baseball is better for a town. NEGATIVE NUMBERS Until recently, baseball teams didn’t worry much about strategy when they sought public money for stadiums. They talked about economic development, and assumed (correctly) that few would question them. This was especially true when teams sought subsidies from new territory they were hoping to enter. To begin with, owners argued, the construction of a stadium would be a plentiful source of jobs. Then, once it became operational, hundreds of thousands of fans would pour in, patronizing restaurants, bars and retailers in the area before and after games. As a result, a new stadium could serve as the linchpin to the revival of an entire community. Business groups and other stadium backers still make this argument, but they are facing increasing skepticism. In the past decade, economist after economist has lambasted the idea that governments are making a prudent choice when they invest in stadiums. Their central point has been that most people have relatively fixed entertainment budgets. That means a dollar spent on baseball is a dollar not spent elsewhere in the local economy. Many academics are also skeptical that stadiums can revitalize neighborhoods. When a new stadium goes up in any city, says Villanova University’s Rick Eckstein, “you can see for yourself, even if you’re a lay person, that there’s not much going on there except on game days.” Many elected officials who oppose subsidizing stadiums make ample use of the economic data. John Marty, a Minnesota state senator, argues that the issue should not be whether the subsidy produces some tangible benefit but whether the benefit is equal to the cost. “If I give you $150 million, it’s going to stimulate the economy, I guarantee it.” Marty says. “But $150 million doesn’t come out of thin air.” The shift in sentiment has hit baseball harder than it has hit other sports. Despite pro football’s popularity, few teams ever argued seriously that an NFL stadium could spur an economic revitalization. With only eight regular-season home games per year, there simply weren’t enough game days to boost area businesses. Major League Baseball, with a home schedule in each stadium of 81 games per year, did make this argument. So baseball had more to lose if the economic reasoning came into question — and that is what is occurring now. The result is that longstanding stadium foes — critics on the right who see public financing as an impetus for higher taxes and critics on the left who view it as welfare for billionaires — have more influence than they did in the past. The recent spats in Florida, Minnesota and D.C. have shown that political opposition, in conjunction with budgetary pressures, can turn the tide against public financing. “Local governments have enormous needs and those needs are increasing each year and they’re becoming more complicated and more expensive,” says Ian Yorty, Miami-Dade County’s tax collector and negotiator of the Marlins stadium deal that the legislature failed to ratify last year. “If you don’t have a direct mandate from the voters, it’s hard to find enough money to throw at a sports stadium.”

Number 4 is just mean. Are you suggesting Baby Arm may have lead us a stray?

There is hardly any revenue shared directly with the community due to crazy contracts and tax relief. All the articles I have read tried hard to show the ripple affect or trickle down affect, and they always pointed to it being a loss. But in Arlington we still have the prestige, without the costs. In fact Dallas will almost for sure benefit from Arlington paying for it. Who wants to stay in Arlington? This is win win for Dallas. I did and still do hate Lara Miller but I was definitely against spending Dallas money on this Jerry monument. Did you ever read the agreement The city of Dallas made with the Owners of the Stars and Mavs for the AA center it was criminal. The owners get all the revenues (including concerts and other events) pay no city taxes, get the stadium after 25 years and Dallas has to maintain it. Plus we paid each owner at the time like 4 million a piece just to look at and review the plans.

Any big announcement is going to be perceived as positive all around, so almost for sure a Stadium update or upcoming conference shift. A change at dc will be done quietly if it happens.