Apparently the only reason tu isn't on top of the national scene is facilities. If they can just upgrade those, then no doubt the sips will be back where they "belong". I find this strange because they just fired their first black HC after 3 years of a 5 year contract. I thought it was because of his performance (record). Now they are implying tu's record has been bad because they are lacking in facilities??? Did they fire Charlie because he didn't have the eye for interior design like Herman?? Confused...

Also, they had some dude on this morning that is covering the US Army bowl in San Antonio. When asked about who fans should be watching as future whorns, the guy mentioned 2 people - the first was a 3-star OL already committed to tu. The second was Baron Browning. The guy said Baron is scheduled to announce where he's going and tu is on his short list. I find this strange because Baron has already made a verbal to Ohio State.

The circle of life. Had Mack as a CEO then if only they could just get a football coach. Here comes Chollie the football coach. Fired his azz and now they just circled back to Tommy Boy the CEO that points out all the upgrades needed to compete. Whatever.

It appears they are willing to give their new coach whatever it takes (or whatever he wants) to succeed. Was there some reason they weren't willing to do this for Strong?

I think Kyle Field was overbuilt and piecemealed. That being said, DKKR is a complete asymmetrical eyesore.

It's like when someone has a mobile home and starts adding onto it.

How can facilities be a problem when they are supposedly the richest program in the world?

Because burnt orange always looks like *****

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I think Kyle Field was overbuilt and piecemealed. That being said, DKKR is a complete asymmetrical eyesore.

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I can't figure out if the end zone seats are crooked or if the rest of the stadium is.

Dodds wanted to close the south endzone for years, but could never get the money lined up because it would require so many other changes. They've had some money, but don't have the land sufficient to place the other offices and facilities that would be displaced.

It will never happen, primarily because the City of Austin is so nucking futs but they really need to consider demolishing the entire stadium and starting over like we did. And to support my contention I point to the huge delay in the tennis facility (neighborhood association fought that it court), the on-going problems trying to replace the soon to be demolished Erwin Center for basketball, etc.

Being landlocked is a bigger problem than soliciting the money. And then there is the local politics.

The 2017 F-150s are in the showrooms now.

That's all they need.

That tennis facility is a perfect representation of texas athletics.

A giant crater.

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And to support my contention I point to the huge delay in the tennis facility (neighborhood association fought that it court)

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I'm not sure what you're talking about here, that's twice today I've read cracks about "tennis courts."

You do realize that work is well underway on the tennis courts next to Disch-Falk Field? It's quite obvious at the corner of 35 and MLK.



Ribbon-cutting scheduled spring 2017

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I thought that was the new Quidditch field.

How's the work on the new basketball facility coming along?

Sure has taken an incredibly long time to get moving on those facilities. Strange for such a "wealthy" program. Or, they really aren't that wealthy. They'll deny that till they reach the end of the earth because they desperately need to believe it for their egos, nevermind reality not supporting it.

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Dodds wanted to close the south endzone for years, but could never get the money lined up because it would require so many other changes. They've had some money, but don't have the land sufficient to place the other offices and facilities that would be displaced.

It will never happen, primarily because the City of Austin is so nucking futs but they really need to consider demolishing the entire stadium and starting over like we did. And to support my contention I point to the huge delay in the tennis facility (neighborhood association fought that it court), the on-going problems trying to replace the soon to be demolished Erwin Center for basketball, etc.

Being landlocked is a bigger problem than soliciting the money. And then there is the local politics.

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Speaking of local politics, the image below is an aerial of dkkkr, with the capital view corridor overlay in orange.
Now, if you've never dealt with development in Austin, a capital view corridor is a limit on building height to keep view corridors open for the capital rotunda. It's a complicated formula based on elevations, but suffice to say, you're not going to demo and rebuild dkkkr within a View corridor and be in compliance. The reason this matters is because the sips have an agreement with the city that any new sip construction will comply with city of Austin codes, even though legally they don't have do. In short, they're ****ed.

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I think Kyle Field was overbuilt and piecemealed. That being said, DKKR is a complete asymmetrical eyesore.

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I can't figure out if the end zone seats are crooked or if the rest of the stadium is.

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You expected something at tu to be straight?

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How's the work on the new basketball facility coming along?

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Since you asked, the preferred location for the new arena was announced in late May 2016.

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where did you sips move I-35 to ?

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And to support my contention I point to the huge delay in the tennis facility (neighborhood association fought that it court)

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I'm not sure what you're talking about here, that's twice today I've read cracks about "tennis courts."

You do realize that work is well underway on the tennis courts next to Disch-Falk Field? It's quite obvious at the corner of 35 and MLK.



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They were scheduled to break ground way before that. Where were you when Patterson was running around kvetching about the money for the new tennis facility? One of the ways he pissed off the BMDs who support tennis when he implied he didn't have sufficient funds from them yet.

So because they finally broke ground doesn't mean it was timely nor even close to being on schedule. Didn't the tennis coach quit because of it??