Pez is aware of and comments on several times, how the heat is a big issue. So why the heck are we playing this game at 5 when it’ll still be 98 outside, instead of 7 when the sun will be down?
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It actually is easy for me to say. I’m an accountant for a company in the service industry. And, to be honest, most grocery companies had 60% back on staff at first, second, and third tier around three weeks into the covid lockdown. That’s covid!! Monstrously more complicated to navigate that simple high gas prices. Our units don’t go a day short at any cash exchange station. True, you have your tardies and call-outs, but you have sound and organized contingencies for those. An exception would be if you didn’t budget enough help. But it was opening day. Surely we budgeted for more than the attendance we had??
Any potential vendor-partner should have been vetted for those simple occurences. At this level you can’t just trust people to carry their side of the contract. I don’t know. Even at Shroeder it seems we have nagging issues with concessions. And that is with the people there.
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I don’t know the capacity, but the lines at both those places were LONG, especially UTSA. We were Tech’s second home game, though.
At least the TDECU Wi-Fi situation has improved to where you can use it to order from your seats. I didn’t try it, but several folks around me went that route. Tech offered a way to order online, but they don’t have Wi-Fi and cell service doesn’t work, so….
The concessions at TDECU had a lot of unexpected pressure with the crowds hanging around during the rain delay. That’s obviously not the root cause here, but it made things worse.
I’m more focused on total staffing. The number of stations open compared to the number available. That kind of service bottleneck that causes lines. I don’t begrude a young kid working his first day when 500 people an hour are buying hotdogs. You’re gonna have slow lines. I mean the lines caused from not enough outlets being open. I should have asked it that way. Service is hard. You have to plan for it like its hard. It just seemed to me that they didn’t budget the total staffing. I’d be more flexible as an AD on performance of people who are working hard.
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I think at this point the admins have their sights on Big 12. They just want to get through this season. They want it to be over with.
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I hope you’re wrong. LOL
But you may be right.
After 4 years, yeah maybe get around to it, as if it wasn’t possible to appoint a “gameday” czar who would at least coordinate with managers and report concerns and go through the gameday experience as a fan would, and council with fans who use this central resource on that new interweb thing, Coogfans, students (CV3).
I guess he’s too busy taking our baseball program to the top.
We’ll get this all ironed out in the next 4-5 years, promise.
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As I posted previously, staff with UH fans who kbow the value of creating a great gameday experience and kbow that “if you’re going to get it done right then do it yourself”. Have rotating staffs. You won’t work every game, but when you do you can watch the replay. Life is hard. Anything great never came easy.
It could be worse. Georgia is on ESPN+ today just like us and starting at noon local time.
It’s going to be 75 degrees in Athens at noon. It’ll be 94 here at 5pm and we will be staring directly into the sun for the first half.
Same, I had no idea until you posted the uga kickoff time.
The lines to get into the Alamo Dome were very long as were concessions, TT the line to get in wasn’t too bad but concession lines were so long I didn’t even try… My seat at TT was 5 rows from the top of the stadium and the men’s room was on the ground floor half way around the stadium. I have trouble walking and the climb was extremely difficult. There was no elevator or escalator. The solid exterior of the TT stadium blocked the breeze on the inside.
TDECU is a really nice stadium, it’s not perfect but it is as good or better than most.
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There were scanner issues at UTSA, as well. I waited in a long line only to find out that I had to move to a different line because of the scanner.
I had no trouble at TDECU last weekend, but we went in about 30 minutes before the game. No line, no scanner issues, and concession lines were short. I didn’t even try going later in the game because everyone was in the concourse.
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By promising we are big time Power football by offering small time level services?
How is that going to encourage those to return?
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Aapire to the mediocrity of others.