Boulevard Extortion

[RednBlue11]

Back when I was in school, we caravaned to the games in our cars and tailgated in the empty Cotton Bowl lot....and we LIKED it!

$500 a game is nothing for a fully staffed, labor-free tent. That's the same cost as a bus to one of your parties.

buses for one party cost triple that.

[smusic 00]

Back when I was in school, we caravaned to the games in our cars and tailgated in the empty Cotton Bowl lot....and we LIKED it!

$500 a game is nothing for a fully staffed, labor-free tent. That's the same cost as a bus to one of your parties.

buses for one party cost triple that.

Exactly.

[NickSMU17]

Back when I was in school, we caravaned to the games in our cars and tailgated in the empty Cotton Bowl lot....and we LIKED it!

$500 a game is nothing for a fully staffed, labor-free tent. That's the same cost as a bus to one of your parties.

buses for one party cost triple that.

You should probably stop now...

[RednBlue11]

Back when I was in school, we caravaned to the games in our cars and tailgated in the empty Cotton Bowl lot....and we LIKED it!

$500 a game is nothing for a fully staffed, labor-free tent. That's the same cost as a bus to one of your parties.

buses for one party cost triple that.

You should probably stop now...

I'm bored with you taking the popular position, it doesn't take any effort.

[stc9]

this is not new, they have been paying for years. Most of the cost is for tent rental, chairs, and table, along with bar tenders.

The $3K includes all of the things mentioned? Kid, quit your whinning... Do something about it!

Reach out to every, I mean every, chapter alumn in Dallas. Tell them about the $10 Tickets and ask them to help you out with $$$s for the BLVD. Tell them to bring the wife and the kids, "Stop by and have a beer with the guys". Then you ALL GO INTO THE STADIUM! After giving your house $20 to $40, $10 tickets is a really cheap day out with the entire family.

You might not believe this or want to believe, but all of us old guys who are losing our hair and getting soft around the middle (we were never pretty to begin with) want to help you young guys. You just need to make it really easy for us (idiot proof is still too complicated). If you put the two guys on the spot who said they would Pony up $50 each - they probably meant it (send a private message). You might have to drive to their office to get a check, but you are already $100 into your fund raising.

[ponytailgater]

Grow up... why would you not pay for a boulevard spot? Set up, trash clean up, police... not to mention support your university and football.

Well worth it, that's why i'm paying for my own spot as well, except i can't split it between 80 frat guys who parents have to write an extra $10 into their check now.

[RednBlue11]

this is not new, they have been paying for years. Most of the cost is for tent rental, chairs, and table, along with bar tenders.

The $3K includes all of the things mentioned? Kid, quit your whinning... Do something about it!

Reach out to every, I mean every, chapter alumn in Dallas. Tell them about the $10 Tickets and ask them to help you out with $$$s for the BLVD. Tell them to bring the wife and the kids, "Stop by and have a beer with the guys". Then you ALL GO INTO THE STADIUM! After giving your house $20 to $40, $10 tickets is a really cheap day out with the entire family.

You might not believe this or want to believe, but all of us old guys who are losing our hair and getting soft around the middle (we were never pretty to begin with) want to help you young guys. You just need to make it really easy for us (idiot proof is still too complicated). If you put the two guys on the spot who said they would Pony up $50 each - they probably meant it (send a private message). You might have to drive to their office to get a check, but you are already $100 into your fund raising.

UGH, the 3k only is the right to be there.

this got stuffy and old really quickly.

[ender3]

Don't get me wrong, we can afford it no problem, but that won't change my stance on it being a dumb amount of money for what we get.

buses for one party cost triple that

Wow. Let's hope you are not working on any degree that involves debate.

You're coming across as the poster boy for a Greek system that has a strong sense of entitlement.

Get over it, and pay up. Or walk from tent to tent.

[RednBlue11]

Don't get me wrong, we can afford it no problem, but that won't change my stance on it being a dumb amount of money for what we get.

buses for one party cost triple that

Wow. Let's hope you are not working on any degree that involves debate.

You're coming across as the poster boy for a Greek system that has a strong sense of entitlement.

Get over it, and pay up. Or walk from tent to tent.

im impressed this thread is getting so much attention for how redundant everyone is managing to be.

for how easy it is to gasbag about "entitlement", "whining", and "getting over it"

No one has taken time to think about this and convince me that a 20x20 piece of grass on the northernmost part of the lawn by Dallas Hall - relatively isolated from the main BLVD - is worth $3,000.

Im betting on at least 2 reactionary, emotionally charged, thoughtless, and redundant responses in the next 15 min...or someone to wait exactly 15 min and reply like a 12yr old and say "I told you so"

[ender3]

im impressed this thread is getting so much attention for how redundant everyone is managing to be.

Are you kidding? With Washington State this week? This thread is GREAT.

There's nothing going on but arguments about mascots and poop (which I have apologized for the part I played in one of those), panic over the state of the passing game, and predicting the attendance of Saturday's game. This thread isn't even APPROACHING the level of redundancy that those reached. No Greeks have threatened to stop going to 1st and 10 yet. Just wait. It'll get there.

Good grief, there' wasn't even a "look-a-like" thread this week.

Thanks for the chance to kick a different off-topic subject around for a while.

[RednBlue11]

HAHA, glad someone is enjoying this like I am.

[Longtime]

Re: Bad Boulevard spot next to Dallas Hall

Solution then is to have an alum pay for a Blvd. spot closer to the "prime" zone. They can't stop said alum from flying his fraternity flag and making that an unofficial spot for good old Alpha Beta Gamma.

When I was in school, we would have killed for a Boulevard experience. We had to ride buses to Texas Stadium. It was such a short trip, you could barely get any kind of buzz going. More than once we told the driver to do a lap or two around the stadium.

[Longtime]

Part of the fun of college is beating the system.

[NickSMU17]

$7.5/ sq. ft in Highland park seems like an OK deal to me.....

Honestly, Most on this board have been where you are, and you are not representing well...

What house do you represent...my guess is F1J1 or Pike?

[ender3]

Oh, and by the way...

it's quite simple. If you do not think it's worth it, don't pay it.

Free country, and it's SMU's grass. They get to charge for 900 sq. ft whatever they want. But you don't have to pay it.

(and I like the above idea of gaming the system a bit)