My Mom dated the T-shirt/Swag vendor for Willie Nelson in the late '70s. I had every damn 3/4 sleeve Willie and Family t-shirt in existence and a black satin starter jacket with Songwriter in gold script on the back. I ate fried chicken out of a bucket with BB King in east Austin at 12 yrs old and went to a mostly empty Barton Springs and watched Kris Kristofferson save a drowning Mexican kid after he got the wind knocked out of him jumping off that sketchy diving board. I had a very weird but awesome childhood.

I loved Austin growing up and I still do. It gets a bad rap, but its still a great place to visit. It was downright heaven on earth from the 70s-90s. Its crazy to think its grown ~700% since the mid 70s.

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Many of the alumni still are, even if they don't live there. They are fans of the Longhorns and will travel well and spend money in your town.

I've lived in the Houston area for 40 years. I will have to see it to believe it about the Texas fanbase. Maybe its just a comparison to the Houston heavy Aggie fanbase, but I find Horn fans to be a lot less fanatical about football. That said, I'm probably in the minority, but I look forward to the expansion.

This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 12:26 am