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Ha! I was the guy he was going to call security on! I have never seen him at a game before. One of the cheerleaders was his daughter. He probably had never been to a college game. I was giving the blonde ref a piece of my mind for making a ridiculous technical call on one of the Ladyjacks. He jumped up, turned around, and asked if I was going to "scream the whole game". (I had been yelling for maybe 15 seconds.) He said another guy (maybe you) was just as bad as me. I said I was a BB official for 23 years and that play was not worthy of a technical. He said he was going to get security to get me out of the gym. I said "Please do. I want to hear what you say to them to justify removing me." He turned back around and sat down and never said another word.

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TallTexan said:

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We need a section for those of us that are more raucous, mainly our usual internet bunch here and twitter. If we were more concentrated in a specific area, I think it'd add to the atmosphere.

We'll call it Purple Aged, since the students stay the same age but we keep getting older.

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PurpleOut said:

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Pilotgirl said:

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We enjoyed being able to sit under the alumni tent. We had brought chairs but saw we didn't need them.

Why sell tailgating spots when it's not even a high attended event? To me, that discourages it and would stop us doing it entirely. Not everything has to be about $$. How about using it to grow the Alumni assoc? Was talking to V about us getting involved down here in Houston. I think getting people to show up, publicize it more, then you can see if people would be interested in sports. Heck, we gotta concentrate on just getting people to the game

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It's not really even an event right now. There's never been tailgating for basketball, so with some marketing towards it and actually having the AD encourage tailgating...it can easily catch on and be a thing. Not saying it should immediately be a pay to tailgate thing (or really ever), but it has to be an option. If it is, people will definitely do it. Including those sponsors that were out there yesterday. And that doesn't mean people can't tailgate without paying.

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PurpleOut said:

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And sorry I must have missed you guys out there (don't think we've met before).

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SFAJack_76 said:

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RedRiverLa said:

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This is quite an amazing season, but what is so spectacular to me, and I put this all on Keller's and the staffs' ability, we are playing with 9 active and available (I believe) new players. Think about that for a minute. Never played before together until this season. It often takes several season to jell, and we've beaten impressive teams from day 1 and have 21 Ws at this point.

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Two of the nine new players aren't available and are being red shirted. Brown due to injury. McDaniel due of other reasons. Absolutely agree with how good this year has been considering what the roster looked like at the start of the season.

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W1964 said:

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Something important is left out of this discussion about student attendance at athletic events. A few years ago many students were poisoned in the classroom by their profs toward athletics in general. A concerted effort, lead by then provost Rick Berry, opposing the proposed athletic fee which was defeated by a vote of the student body. It was reported the good provost sent emails to teachers with talking points to be used in class encouraging students to vote against the fees. Many teachers feel any money spent on athletics is a waste and would be better spent in their department.

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100%. We have such a large percentage of our professors that are openly anti-everything athletics.

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W1964 said:

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Something important is left out of this discussion about student attendance at athletic events. A few years ago many students were poisoned in the classroom by their profs toward athletics in general. A concerted effort, lead by then provost Rick Berry, opposing the proposed athletic fee which was defeated by a vote of the student body. It was reported the good provost sent emails to teachers with talking points to be used in class encouraging students to vote against the fees. Many teachers feel any money spent on athletics is a waste and would be better spent in their department.

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nacluth said:

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I believe the other walkons were specifically recruited for the practice squad whereas Zivney was supposed to be a back of the bench type of player. I may have that all wrong, but that is my impression.

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TallTexan said:

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PurpleOut said:

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W1964 said:

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Something important is left out of this discussion about student attendance at athletic events. A few years ago many students were poisoned in the classroom by their profs toward athletics in general. A concerted effort, lead by then provost Rick Berry, opposing the proposed athletic fee which was defeated by a vote of the student body. It was reported the good provost sent emails to teachers with talking points to be used in class encouraging students to vote against the fees. Many teachers feel any money spent on athletics is a waste and would be better spent in their department.

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100%. We have such a large percentage of our professors that are openly anti-everything athletics.

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Much like Student Athlete of the week, we need a "professor" of the week. Present them with a plaque at that weeks game, give them a standing ovation, & a gift card for dinner, etc ought to buy us some goodwill across the university.

That & show them the applications boost every time athletics gives the university free marketing.

The 75 year old boosters who sit by us are onboard with new locker rooms, because in her words "you can't recruit HS kids with our current facilities". And the 1965 SFA grad I met her in Palestine was like "we beat Duke, you can't buy that kind of marketing for the university".

If they can understand the benefits of sports to the university, certainly a PHD can figure it out. If not, I am available to evangelize to them if Ivey will provide me with a lunch budget.

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TallTexan said:

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PurpleOut said:

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W1964 said:

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Something important is left out of this discussion about student attendance at athletic events. A few years ago many students were poisoned in the classroom by their profs toward athletics in general. A concerted effort, lead by then provost Rick Berry, opposing the proposed athletic fee which was defeated by a vote of the student body. It was reported the good provost sent emails to teachers with talking points to be used in class encouraging students to vote against the fees. Many teachers feel any money spent on athletics is a waste and would be better spent in their department.

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100%. We have such a large percentage of our professors that are openly anti-everything athletics.

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Much like Student Athlete of the week, we need a "professor" of the week. Present them with a plaque at that weeks game, give them a standing ovation, & a gift card for dinner, etc ought to buy us some goodwill across the university.

That & show them the applications boost every time athletics gives the university free marketing.

The 75 year old boosters who sit by us are onboard with new locker rooms, because in her words "you can't recruit HS kids with our current facilities". And the 1965 SFA grad I met her in Palestine was like "we beat Duke, you can't buy that kind of marketing for the university".

If they can understand the benefits of sports to the university, certainly a PHD can figure it out. If not, I am available to evangelize to them if Ivey will provide me with a lunch budget.

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