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Buy the tix through the ticket office. They're $50.

If you need some personal attention from the ladies of El Paso, make sure to hit the hillside behind the visitors side of the stadium. They'll be happy to give you hand and help raise your spirits and harden your resolve. 👀

A house? I thought all of you had compounds and estates... Tough times in the Park Cities?

Don't many of those P5 programs take the penalty payment and drop the G5 away game before its ever played?

Further investment in "The Hilltop" branding!

We're staying at the Hilton Garden Inn downtown. I think it's walking distance to Beale St for Saturday night.

We moved our reservation over to The Delano. Flying in early Saturday morning from Los Angeles. Hoping we can walk right across the bridge next to MB/Delano to Allegiant! Thought about staying for the Raiders game but we're leaving mid afternoon on Sunday. I dare to dream that the MGSF, Alumni Association, and/or Athletic Dept will have a tent in a parking spot at Allegiant with a cooler of beers and some free koozies. It probably would be a better bet to put $1000 on red at the casino though. 😢

You're probably right... Which only makes my original point more poignant. It costs NOTHING to put butts in the metal bleachers. We aren't a 5 Star hotel that is at risk of damaging our reputation by selling our $800 a night rooms for $75 day of. We're a G5 football program with A+ GameDay facilities and perpetually poor fan and student support. What are we going to damage by having $10 BOGO tickets for the wing? You risk making a few season tix holders mad, but let's be honest, you know you're donating to a charity if you purchase bleacher season tix. There's always a way to get them cheaper than the season tix cost today.

Every time I look at the spread it has slipped in favor of UTEP. I think the opening spread was something like a 6 point favorite, then 3, then 2, and now even.

I disagree. UNT football's home product at Apogee is only good 6 Saturdays a year and is highly perishable and grossly underutilized. What does it cost Apogee to fill a seat? $2 for janitorial fees and $1 for security? What is the likelihood that the seat will buy $25 in concessions that are high margin? Highly likely. What is the chance the person attending will buy a readily available high margin orange or blue lot parking pass? Highly likely. What is the immeasurable short-term/long-term goodwill valuation for getting that butt in a seat? As we attempt to build long term attendance, it's HIGHLY valuable to fill those seats every Saturday. the AD has to build repetition in the minds of alums and Denton residents that UNT football is the most fun you can have on a Saturday in the fall.

As I tell my employees... Hope is not a strategy

They seem surprised the visitors side is in the sun. 🤔. Clearly they don't go to many away games.

Big upgrade! Thanks for organizing this.

What is the average age of these SMU Billionaires? It has to be mid 70's at this point... I say that emphasizing that you better hope they each leave a $100m to each SMU NIL Collective in their estates because the average SMU graduate these days probably considers themselves lucky not to graduate with $200k in student loans and a nice $55k-60k a year job at graduation. So, for example, an SMU degree may get you an interview at a Big 4 office in Dallas quicker than a UNT degree might, but most of these SMU kids as scrapping their way along the same corporate ladder to middle management in the same way UNT students are. With the increased cost of everything, donating to the NIL collective so your top Running Back recruit can drive a Range Rover when he's 19 may not resonate with a middle aged family man SMU grad with 2.5 kids, a 2022 $650k "starter home" mortgage at 6%, and two Toyota SUV payments.

Last I saw him he was driving a very nice new Ford F-150 Raptor.

Us club seat holders put our pants on one leg at a time too... Can't speak for the suite holders though, I assume they have a tailor sew them a pair each morning.

To this day, with the exception of walking from the Riverwalk to the Alamo KFC Dome, Charlotte made us walk a mile from non-season ticket holder parking to the stadium only to find out there was only 3k Charlotte fans there for the UNT at Charlotte game. I have a hot take that this project will actually hurt SMU home game attendance. I'd guestimate there's a measurable amount of people that go there just to sit in the grass... or they go because their kids can entertain themselves by running up and down the grass.

It does look decent. Better than the Covid year gifts of "we're going digital with your tickets but forgot to not print the plastic ones, so here's commemorative physical game tickets!"

We didn't get back from the beach till last night. As a season ticket holder, will someone be mailing me my off-brand UNT Yeti cup or am I blessed enough to be able to purchase it now at full price? Sounds like the same story as the Dallas coaches roadshow event at the brewery a few weeks ago.

Date/Time/Streaming Service?

We've traveled to most of the Littrell era away games. To the point that we had people asking us "who's your kid?"... which goes to show that except for SMU/UTSA/Rice/LA Tech and maybe one exotic P5 home game a year, our fan base NEVER travels unless they have a child playing. There is NEVER and organization of a UNT official hotel block or anything for our games. For some of the bigger away games the Athletic Department will come up with travel packages but they won't release it till 3-4 weeks prior to the game. Look at the folks on GMG.com going to UNLV... many of us have already booked hotels (in a city that is highly unlikely to sell out of hotel rooms) and some have already booked plane tix. The Cal game was another great example. There were a decent amount of us there, imagine if they had corraled 75 of the 100 green guys in the same hotel! I think 2-3 weeks before the game the Ath Dept tried to get people to stay 20 miles inland in Walnut Creek away from Berkley and SF where all the energy is. And the great embarasment of the FAU CUSA championship game in Boca without as much as coordination of a 10x10 Academy pop-up tent and some free water and Lite with UNT koozies in the giant FAU parking lot campus. You'd think there'd be some travel agent that would be happy to try to coordinate some of that stuff as soon as the football schedule comes out.

Don't they usually replace it right before football season starts? I've seen the school or the AD call it out at least once or twice on social when it happens.

Selfishly I will miss the short drive from Plano to Frisco when we are playing at Dickies Arena in Ft Worth in a few years.

I booked Fri-Sun through our MGM account at Bellagio. There were already some decent comps available. If the market goes 101% to hell long term after a 75bp or 100bp rate hike at Wednesday's Fed meeting they may be giving away hotel rooms by Sept on the Strip. At minimum make sure you can cancel your hotel reservation so you can rebook for a cheaper rate.