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Yeah, assuming that's on the south side where Cotton Bowl meets the midway, it's always fenced up to create the road to get the busses for teams, bands, etc in and out. In fact, after the game it's nearly impossible to get across until teams leave, as you have to wander through a choke point on the east side way far down at the corner of the exposition hall to cross back over into the midway, and this is even before busses are actually rolling, which for those few minutes you obviously can't cross.
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The fair is big enough and so much of the other attractions are not actually impacted by the game, especially during the game. They already do shut down on the south end where the locker rooms are to get the busses in and out, and set up a larger staging area you can't walk through as its the area for logistics for team/media. Maybe that's what was mentioned here earlier. If they extended the perimeter out, let Texas/OU run GameDay operations instead of the Fair, the whole thing could be a net-plus atmosphere and amenities wise with the stadium as is. Biggest issues are getting in and out of stadium, which sounds like West side issues might have been fixed by renovations, followed by bathrooms/health safety stuff on a hot/sunny day (water, shade during breaks, places for people to catch a breath). It's actually an easier solution than the problems in an old upper deck (DKR west side for example), and just requires a little extra thought on the layout and planning of the space that is already there. The problem here is State Fair of Texas org is the landlord, and we are the tenant, and while we are the biggest event, we are far from the only event as they are running a month long monster with massive events (headliner concerts) 15-plus times. So it would require huge focus and leverage from CDC, OU-AD, CIty of Dallas, and perhaps media partners. The thing is, it should be an easy ask because it's not about asking for another round of capital improvements, and if presented right, CDC and Drew Martin should be able to demonstrate that the loss of real estate for one day out of 30, could actually NET more revenue, as they could professionalize the concession experience inside the security perimeter. Instead of volunteer dallas groups running sheds and troughs, they could bring the best of the state Fair into the "game" as a huge percentage of game attendees don't know how to actually navigate the fair itself. Numerous mini fletchers throughout perimeter. Curated best of fair bites, where they could be hawking the award winning stuff all at one place for a premium if you didn't have to track it down and wait in different lines, while logistics could be ferrying the stuff from the vendors stands right into holders/hot boxes right through a backstage tunnel to the sales outlets inside security. Hell, you could even pay for it with your big name sponsors having "activations/retail" outlets inside security area. Loves could have huge walk in and out convenience "stores" setup for their sooner brethren. You have to get more real estate, with more square footage you can solve the circulation, bathroom and concession issues. But it would require a truly professional team and trained staff brought in to actively run it. Meaning you would need active staff guiding and live signage telling people where more bathrooms are, how easy they are to get to and what the wait times are, etc. Hell, they could even have VIP areas in adjacent areas inside security, with elevated food and beverage offerings to sell as "club" ticket packages, split the revenue with State Fair, and then the sell should be easy.
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It's code. New code requires a crap ton of space, as they can't do troughs or put urinals super tight together. If you went to Ohio State you experienced this first hand. Their newer upper deck concourse had two men's restrooms per sideline, each with only 4 urinals and 4 stalls. Which again isn't a tiny restroom. As with concessions and mechanical it is all they could squeeze in an addition a full football field plus concourse (4 total restrooms, 2 men and 2 women). I estimated there were 8 urinals for 12,000 people. Most of which were men. Let's call it 8 urinals for 8,000 guys. Not good. But if you ran down the stairs to the tiny 200 level, there was a tiny old boiler room sized restroom that was jammed under the seats in a corner and only 5 foot tall on one wall, and they crammed 12 urinals and 2 stalls in the tiny space because it was built 100 years ago, so thus current code didn't apply. Even better if you were willing to walk all the way down to the main level, they had huge restrooms with spots of 100-plus to piss at troughs all at one time. Guys, at the horseshoe, one of the premier venues for the one of the biggest programs in college football, there were men waiting in a 50-yard line for the restroom BEFORE kickoff. At halftime, I would hate to see it. Same or worse at the Big House, as each section has something like 90 rows and one single portal to get in and out. Benefit of there, like the Rose Bowl is since it's practically a single level, you can walk down the hill to larger open air spaces to circulate and go to restroom or find concessions. The secret to the cotton bowl upper deck is the views are amazing because you are so close to the field, and you can get up and down to the main concourse (and out to the fair at half) in seconds going down the stairs. Every year I head out the back straight through to the food and fiber building to the Texas products market, buy 12 waters for everyone in my group and section, and a whole other bag of snacks, and walk back over, hike up stairs and am back in the seat long before second half kicks off. State Fair could solve this issue without millions of dollars in renovations by sacrificing the entire area around the stadium for those six hours once a year, establishing the security fence/ticket area further out on the other side of the road that circles and bringing in 2x the number of vendors and portable toilets. The fair is run by morons, but if CDC and Drew Martin took over the management of the second Saturday in October, and were given additional real estate to run it, most if not all of the issues could be solved. For example, what if on each end of the outer perimeter there was an in house Fletchers stand, that would also eliminate so much of the chaos people experience outside the game before and after. The main issue there is that area on the East Side main gate is one of the most valuable spaces the Fair rents to big brands, and the Fair is a month long event that doesn't want to, or even know how to, be flexible for the premier event and biggest draw.
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Arch Manning: Wearing Gold Hats and Firing Old Smokey
TheYoungHorn replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
Maybe, but for three years now we have been in compete for championships mode and he can watch the same tape I can. this isn’t 2020 anymore. For anyone. Regardless of personnel. I’ve watched good to elite defenses with great defensive coaching befuddle him and have their dudes literally pointing to exactly where the ball is going before it’s snapped over and over. you got to adapt and evolve, not just to your dudes you have and what they can actual due in live game action against equally talented opponents, but also against how the other teams change defending you. most if not all college football teams at this level have a handful of plays each game where a guy is wide open for a TD, and the difference between the great ones, good ones and mediocre ones is the amount of those you convert. but we are neither optimized for success or explosiveness -
Arch Manning: Wearing Gold Hats and Firing Old Smokey
TheYoungHorn replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
Arch was playing hero ball yesterday. he doesn’t have a hero ball scheme or team built around him. If it was Herman calling his hero ball get your qb murdered game, like we saw Sam so many times, maybe we pull that one out by a miracle. Sark wants this offense to be the mac jones bama machine. he refuses to adjust to the fact he doesn’t have those WRs, running backs or line. i don’t care how many touch downs he can scheme open, we need an offense that can reliably move the chains and stay on the field and then can execute in the red zone. -
Here in Central Madrid it didn't pop back on until 11:30 last night. My phone didn't work a lick all of yesterday, but it's back up and running fine. I had to eat goldfish and maria cookies for lunch because the whole apartment only had 5 euros in it. Public radio broadcasts yesterday were worthless, as they didn't know anything, but the rumors at the plaza were that it was for sure a cyber attack. Biggest plus is when we went out this morning to walk to school all the trash that had piled up over the last 10 days of trash workers being on strike was miraculously picked up.
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What happened is that our defense was suffocating, especially against subpar quarterbacking and thus they and Florida got swamped because they couldn’t stay on the field.
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You know that all the teams you mentioned had very good defenses. Hell ou and Michigan are both top ten in defensive fei. They are legit defenses which is why and how they made bama and milroe look broken.
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2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
TheYoungHorn replied to Pancho's topic in Football
I watched it. If we make initial tackles like you said it’s 4th and 4. He breaks out of baron by going back and then contacts Holmes with the ball at the 38. He is also 40-50 pounds more, higher and now moving forward. Perfect wrap up and drop and he ends up at 37ish here. 4th and a long three. They were still going for it. Inside the 40, tie game, their weapons, 4th and under 8 they are going. Yes, it would have been nice if his extra effort didn’t gain those extra 3 yards after catch/contact, but it happened. Wouldn’t have changed that they were going, we weren’t ready, called a timeout and gave away the conversion by alignment and personnel. -
2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
TheYoungHorn replied to Pancho's topic in Football
On the 36 yard line? In what world are they punting on the 36 yard line? -
2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
TheYoungHorn replied to Pancho's topic in Football
No. Here is the play when he catches it. Already 4 yards and with huge amount of green. Jahdae flies downfield to cut him down and initiates contact with their TE, and now ball is already only 4 yards away. So even if the tiny Baron wraps him up and drops him immediately its 4th and 4 on the 36. They are not punting, in any world. Ever. So yes, it would have been great if he wrapped up and help arrived (holmes, also small) to knock him down for no extra yardage. But they were going either way. -
2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
TheYoungHorn replied to Pancho's topic in Football
4th and five they are going for it. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
TheYoungHorn replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
When the defense forced a pick six from Howard, or a punt return TD from SIlas, you would be talking about the sack that Quinn took when his RT got whipped and we used the field position and our chance to make the most of the situation to tie the game back up and go to OT? -
Bringing #3 from depth late to be the fourth was not the problem with that call. It wasn't great, and looked Todd Orlando levels of stupid/ineffectual but it's not why this call was criminal malpractice levels of bad. The problem was we backed every one in zone up even further and had a safety (maybe two) and Hill both bailing full speed backward at/before the snap. Which is not a way these guys are used to playing defense ever in their lives, and definitely not how they play well. PK thinks it's a genius call that covers his bases for both a deep shot and/or a screen (as it gets both of best worlds). He thinks late unexpected pressure after o-oline committed to 3 down line man opens gap for #3 to come in and force throw off target or get sack. While also dropping his best screen defender into the wide side of the field to sniff out and stop a potential screen or draw... BUT, it's Todd Orlando level thinking as all our guys end up running to and defending green, and not seeing, reading or reacting to what is happening in front of them. So, we end up with Hill out of position and one on one with 3 Ohio State linemen leading a back who is now nearing full speed. Which in that case you have to realize you are screwed and know that you have to disrupt back to make them slow down, change direction, etc. So instead of playing ole to try to bring down back, you need to sacrifice yourself like a grenade at the legs of all three o-line men and cause big bodies to fall in every direction. Problem three is all your DBs are bailing out and end up being in strange punt return like angles, instead of normal pursuit and attack DB angles they would use on a similar screen look on a third-and-long situation.
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2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
TheYoungHorn replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Allar choked a bit. They ran the ball well, and play action to TE and running backs was cooking. Very Kansas of them honestly. That's a good unit, with a great schemer and play caller. Notre Dame had 9 guys flying down hill the whole second half, and if not for their QB missing a ton of throws, who knows. They aren't explosive downfield against a big-league defensive backfield, but they are a good unit. That said, you can see from those numbers, that both OSU and Penn State found some great wrinkles to move up and down the field against Oregon. -
2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
TheYoungHorn replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
If not for backbreaking Casey Thompson pick six as we drive into score, we win that one. Huge 14 point swing difference there. -
Where did you get all22? Was this just used on main broadcast as a replay?
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This is part of why even with the stellar backs he has had here sarks run game has struggled in red zone. Don’t help the defense by condensing the edge and bringing additional bodies into the box. only do that when you have an execution advantage with the extra blocker. and davis and even JT sanders have never been that. Hell even helm is more of a shielder than a punishing set the edge or crash down guy
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Also sarks insistence on bringing extra bodies into the box is awful for that kind of runner. It has never made sense to tighten up and insist on backup bad blocking te and wide receivers to make key blocks in short yardage situations
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Having the read the zone patiently behind the los back play the play the same from the end zone was also a bad look. You can’t punish teams for cheating on the backside if you don’t get downhill fast. Wisners patience paid off against aggy and Clemson with bigger nfl bodies committing themselves in a direction, but it’s garbage against asu or Georgia or any other team only trying to inflict chaos.
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2025 Peach Bowl: CFP QF - Texas vs. Arizona State - 12pm on ESPN
TheYoungHorn replied to Pancho's topic in Football
Stone was consistently making more of the 50 plus kicks today in warm ups. But Bert and stone were both missing quite a few in the 40 range…yes, even in warm ups -
They charged more than they were charged from peach bowl.
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To make it even more confusing, here is peach bowl official seating chart that says cfp quarterfinal, but also still says 2024, when the game will be played in 2025. So while tickets are already going for below their official face value (with fees) in upper deck, the other area prices don’t quite match up with what ASU says either.
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Y’all need to start harassing the LHF now about the robbery that’s going on. here is the chart and face value from aSu. The most expensive seat is sideline club level at $320 per. LHF is saying the cheapest seat they are going to charge is $310 (for what are $195 seats
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Wait, what? How much did you pay for those options?
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