I recently had the opportunity to attend a baseball game at a pretty good but much smaller D1 school. It was a great time and reminded me how much better the gameday environment for UT football, baskeball and baseball used to be. I am afraid we will probably never see that again at UT and are doomed to half empty, corporate environments with no parking. For the first time, I really understood why so many alumni have stopped attending events, especially basketball and baseball. As central Austin becomes more of a cluster, there is less parking, UT sells all the tickets to corporations, the game day experience gets worse and worse, tickets and student tickets get more expensive... the future of UT athletics may be half or more empty stadiums regardless of the product on the field. It does not help that UT has alienated so many Alumni in a variety of other ways including non-sports related things.
It has been mentioned here before, but the Texas Exes turned away numerous life members during the Notre Dame game and was full of green clad fans because they decided selling tickets to the UT Alumni Center to Notre Dame fans was the priority.
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Last edited: May 22, 2017