The Kerrfeteria

In other news, Todd Dodge was sighted at a Pittsburgh Burger King today...

The stadium is going to be finished in 8 months. They obviously don't want it, but there's nothing they can do. The Denia people should have been going after the city to improve Bonnie Brae and other traffic arteries. I see no mess at all. Nobody knows at all yet what the traffic situation is going to look like on gameday, and I personally doubt it's going to be an issue back in the Denia neighborhood anyways. The stadium holds 35,000 and change plus those who hang out in the lots tailgating. I fail to see the problem; we're not dealing with 80,000+ crowds. Not to mention it's SIX DAYS out of every year that the stadium will be potentially filled to capacity...

The Green Line is phenomenal, took it to a Stars game a few weeks ago. Best way to get downtown from the suburbs, IMHO. The connection to Denton is going to be pretty valuable once I-35E goes under construction through Lewisville, so maybe the ridership numbers will be convincing enough to make DCTA expand hours of operation to move people that want to go to the game? You're right though, Harry, shuttle buses would make way too much sense to actually implement.

As for the thread before this point, all I have to say is: tl;dr. SMU is our main rival. It's just too perfect: a private school that has a stereotypically wealthy fanbase that seems to look down to its' state school neighbor to the north. They're the closest D-IA football school, there's the Hayden Fry connection, Safeway Bowl, etc. Enough said on that. It'd be nice to have something going on with Texas State should they figure out what's going to happen with the WAC, the same goes for Louisiana Tech and NMSU if that conference can't solve its problems. I'd be fine with those two joining the Sun Belt, even TSU.

Denia?

First off, the fanfare: wow! Very dramatic, coming from an opera and one of Wagner's nonetheless...really like this one and it's a very unique thing to play. I know many schools play short, rousing pieces like this right before the team runs out of the tunnel. Listen again and imagine the team coming onto the field behind the band, jumping up and down, pumped up to rush into the open. Far more original than just playing a video set to "Thunderstruck". Of course as the team comes out, the fight song is played, but this older version has a lot more to it. I always felt the arrangement the band plays now can sound pretty simplistic at times and lacking something. I, like many others, never heard the original and I must say I prefer it. It's got a lot more...well...musical features to it. /music nerd I say play the fanfare for the team or band entrance and switch back to the old arrangement of the fight song (and maybe add another fixture to the repertoire a la "Fly Like an Eagle"), then STICK WITH THESE CHANGES. The vast majority would notice a difference, but not to the point where the university would jeopardize the branding/identity campaign it's been selling to the students and alums. Add in the acoustic qualities of the new stadium and you've created sights and sounds that you expect from an FBS college football game.

It's definitely possible. The buyout could easily have been taken care of by one game @ LSU or @ Alabama, though I suspect that given the lucrative agreements these BCS schools will sign, RV and the athletic department found it hard to draw the line. It'd be hard for anyone in his position to draw the line, especially while given the task of rebuilding the football program and getting the stadium project off the ground.