Why are we playing at home during ACL?

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by Statalyzer, Oct 6, 2017.

  1. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    We used to avoid doing such a thing (except the one year that we rescheduled a game due to a hurricane). That seemed like a much better way of doing things than we have now. Traffic is bad enough here, even on weekends, without any special events going on, and now we're cramming two enormous ones into the same time frame? We chose . . . poorly.
     
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  2. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    Good question. Traffic was bad at 2:00 this afternoon, even on 360. When we lived here near 2222 and 360 a few years back, it was never that jamed up at that time.
     
  3. BallsofSteerToo

    BallsofSteerToo 100+ Posts

    It's all those folks smart enough to get out of California.
     
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  4. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I was smart enough to bail out of Austin 17+ years ago.
     
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  5. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Same issue, but different part of town for the next home game against OSU - F1 race.
     
  6. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    Why is it incumbent on the University to work around other events? Because we do our schedules after the events do?

    I'd think that the complicated nature of making 100+ football schedules work together makes it difficult to avoid other events in a town.

    Up in Arlington, the Rangers and Cowboys (next door to each other) have same day games that create tens of thousands of people coming and going from the same area. It's nuts.
     
  7. rick mueller

    rick mueller Burnt Orange Bleeder

    Well, we could switch the game to Manhattan, and we all know how appealing that is. It would also mean going from September 8th to October 21st without a home game. Yeah, that's a good idea all the way around.
     
  8. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    A better question is why are the ******** who put on the ACL festival scheduling it during a UT home game weekend?
     
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  9. OrangeShogun

    OrangeShogun 500+ Posts

    Well, ACL fest is two consecutive weekends, so...
     
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  10. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    So? Let them put it on in a different city.
     
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  11. Mesohorny

    Mesohorny 1,000+ Posts

    I'm surprised there's not a marathon being held today. Austin needs a clearing house to help coordinate the scheduling of big events. It's not unusual to have a combination of a UT game, a UIL or NCAA tournament, a COTA race or the ROT rally, a musical festival or big name concert, a large convention, or a marathon being held on the same weekend. Since the UIL tournaments' teams are not decided until the week before, many families have to stay in San Marcos or Temple if another event is going on here. Plus the traffic sucks worse than normal if multiple events are going on.

    But an events coordinator would require a city study that will take years anyway.
     
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  12. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    They are too busy being concerned with changing the name of holidays and removing statues, which obviously they got to after feeling so good about banning plastic bags.
     
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  13. JustWin

    JustWin 250+ Posts

    Sounds like a west mall discussion brewing here in a football "on the field" thread.

    Just curious.

    Is this Event Coordinator position supposed to make it convenient for the people in town or to maximize the city's revenue? Is the position paid from the hotel/motel tax revenue?
    Are the Lyft drivers complaining?

    Let's turn it into a music discussion.
    Guy Clark said:

    One man's dread is another man's dream, one man's sigh is another man's scream

    Hank Williams said it best
    He said it a long time ago
    "Unless you have made no mistakes in your life
    Be careful of stones that you throw"

    Please continue.
     
  14. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    One of them is the OU game though. I don't really feel like looking up the dates of every past ACL to confirm, but I seem to remember we used to always have an off date or away game when it was going on.
     
  15. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    You don't do much for maximizing revenue when you send out-of-town guests OUT OF TOWN for their lodging.

    I am sure, however, that OTHER jurisdictions LOVE the inability of the City of Austin to aid in coordinating events in a manner to minimize overlapping of schedules.
     
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  16. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Well, that would explain why I'm paying through the nose for a hotel room when we come into town for the OSU game.
     
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  17. Mesohorny

    Mesohorny 1,000+ Posts

    Not having two or three large-attendence events the same weekend but spread out would be convenient to both Austin residents and out of town visitors re hotel and restaurant availability (both of which would maximize revenue), and traffic (7th worse in the nation). Same for increase in income for Lyft and Uber drivers.

    The city has no problem spending money on consultants and bureaucrats; they would find the funds.

    This part of the thread might belong on In the Stands, but not West Mall. No politics being discussed.
     
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  18. JustWin

    JustWin 250+ Posts

    How the city spends money certainly verges on political discussion.

    Granted, the OP is about "Playing at Home", so it does sort of start out as a football discussion.

    But if you'll check my original comment, the post I quoted talked of renaming holidays, moving statues and banning plastic bags. I just didn't see that as "on the field" or "in the stands".
    Have a great week and BEAT ou.
     
  19. n64ra

    n64ra 1,000+ Posts

    this is the reason.
     
  20. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    At USC followed by open date, followed by Thursday in Ames. Two consecutive weekends, my skinny white ***.
     
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  21. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    ACL has been in September before. Why wouldnt they just do it the last two weekends in September and miss conflicting with UT home games?

    I agree this is on the city of Austin. UT football has been around over 100 years. Austin should have demanded both ACL and F1 occur in the 9 months without football being played.

    The city, like UT, is poorly managed. Glad I do not live there anymore.
     
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  22. JustWin

    JustWin 250+ Posts

    Or maybe we should just go back to Aquafest and drag boat races on the lake. Those events seemed to work okay with UT football. :tap:
     
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  23. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    I have no idea what those are and dont care, but I am not sure how a half empty DKR or a horrible traffic jam is good for anyone. ACL, F1 and UT home games can all happen at different times to everyone’s benefit. I know Austin people and a lot of people at UT just think poor managment is how things have to be, but that’s not true at all.

    It amazes me that people defend preventable and unnecessary bad situations.

    @JustWin is it impossible for the City of Austin, UT, ACL and F1 to coordinate these events for different weekends? Is that impossible?

    If competent people instead of moronic buffoons were running Austin and UT, then ACL, F1 and 2 UT home games would not collide.
     
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  24. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    I don't know about ACL, but the Euros who ran F1 when the event was set, could have cared less. The new owners might be a little more flexible, but that still has to be seen.
     
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