You make it a PARTY WIN OR LOSE!!!
I’m talking all you can drink and eat Alumni tailgates for $20… LFG COOGS!!!
Philly style Beef & Beer… it’s not rocket science.
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Obviously, people are not going to show up on their own or this would not be an issue.
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But students will. Why don’t we turn over the stadium to the students and let them fill what they can, instead of trying to turn an apathetic fan base into one that shows up. The students are the future, and will be alumni one day. It will take time, but to not sell out a rival game on a beautiful evening, in a beautiful stadium, with a new HC trying to win his first game, shows you where the alumni interest level is.
6500, yes. I wish we could fill the whole stadium.
I don’t think UT was auto admitting top 10%. Pretty sure they were auto admitting top 6% and are reducing it to 5%.
Don’t limit it to 6500, open the gates to all, we have 50K students, it would look full. We would not make any money, but you don’t make money from an empty chair either.
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I agree. But what I’m saying is that not all 50,000 students like football. I wish they did.
I know you will not get all students to come, but we get 14% now, if we got 20% that would be 10K, with 20K season tickets would be a good base to build on.
No, the original poster got this wrong. It has been 6%, not 10%
Should just scan students in with their IDs unless the fame sells out prior to gameday…
I new alums that were going to Robertson on their 10 year old student IDs… 
We haven’t been turning students away.
If we could get all the students partying on Cullen to come inside the entire upper EZ would be filled.
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You sure? As long as I’ve known, it’s been the Top 10%.
For all Texas universities it’s 10% class rank and they are automatically admitted. With UT, it was 6%. Soon to be 5%
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The south west and south east side of the stadium should be student and general admission but there are season ticket holders in those spots. So just letting students in would cause issues with assigned seats.
But, in general, let the students in who want to come in
Easily resolved… call over the usher and show your tix
A record-breaking 73,000 applications? UT football success.
I thought I heard Nunez say they had 6000 tickets allotted for students to the Rice game and increased it to 7000? Did not sound like we were letting all students in. If we have 10,000 at the tailgate, we need them all in. Those are incredible numbers when you are talking over 20% of the students. Sadly, we have to max out at 1000 for basketball. Maybe we need an overflow plan for basketball., indoor facility or alumni facility to show the game and keep the party going.
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Every high school senior in the top 10% will apply to UT and A&M.
Even I did it back in the late 2000s when I was top 10%.
Just like every high school senior in the local area applies to UH even if they don’t intend to enroll.
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Or the fact that the number of high school students graduating continues to increase. Sam Houston and Sul Ross also had increasing and record enrollment and that’s probably the case with many other public universities in the state
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That can’t be right, I thought we were projected to have a decline in teenagers in the next decade based on the 2020 census?
Maybe the rate of growth will go down? The number of graduates increased from 2022 to 2023 2 1/2%