Texas May Start Selling Alcohol at Football and Basketball Games

All, College Athletics, College Basketball, College Football Ty Duffy March 7th. 2013, 3:55pm

Texas packs more than 100,000 fans into Darrell K. Royal Stadium for a home game. Said fans may soon be able to drink away the mediocrity on site. According to AD Deloss Dodds the school may start selling alcohol at baseball games and progress forward from there.

“We talk about it constantly,” Dodds told The Daily Texan. “If we ever did it, we’d probably start with baseball. There’s something about it that doesn’t quite feel right, but there’s people telling me that it might be safer to serve it than not serve it. It’s an issue. I guarantee you we talk about it at almost every other staff meeting.”

Dodds claims it’s “not a money thing,” it’s a “do-the-right-thing issue.” That’s what the Longhorn Network was about too: doing the right thing.

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40 Responses to “Texas May Start Selling Alcohol at Football and Basketball Games”

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hussler2 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 3:58 PM
Weird to see a Michigan fan stoop to taking repeated shots at another big-time program. Must be Nike envy.
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 3:59 PM
“If we ever did it, we’d probably start with baseball. There’s something about it that doesn’t quite feel right, but there’s people telling me that it might be safer to serve it than not serve it.
Dodds claims it’s “not a money thing,” it’s a “do-the-right-thing issue.”
What the what? Are there really a big alcohol-safety issues at Texas baseball games?
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KC Resident Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 3:59 PM
Said fans may soon be able to drink away the mediocrity on site.
They already do that. Gotta profit off it.
Dodds claims it’s “not a money thing,” it’s a “do-the-right-thing issue.”
Boolshit.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
What the what? Are there really a big alcohol-safety issues at Texas baseball games?
I assumed he meant it would in theory cut down on binge drinking beforehand if you could buy booze in the stadium.
Granted the fact that half of the students in attendance aren’t drinking legally in the first place kind of mitigates that theory.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Mind you that’s obviously bullshit.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Good for them.
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
I can’t think of many/any safety issues solved by selling it on site. If they cut you off, wouldn’t you have a flask anyway to get shitty off of?
Idiots who get shitfaced are going to, no matter what. I’m starting to come around on Duffy’s hatred of these programs/NCAA.
/just not the pay the poor destitute starving players with hookers part
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Weird to see a Michigan fan stoop to taking repeated shots at another big-time program. Must be Nike envy.
taking shots at other programs is par for the course for Michigan fans.
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KC Resident Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:07 PM
I’m starting to come around on Duffy’s hatred of these programs/NCAA.
I can see through your ruse, WWoS.
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cleet Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
The cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.
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HuskerDawg Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Bra-fucking-vo, Texas. You just moved up a few notches for me. Get on this, SEC.
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TNCOWBOY7 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
We had a good debate about this yesterday. Schools like Texas pulling shit like this may have me change sides to the Pay the Players team.
How much fucking money do these AD’s need? They are like Congress.
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HtownHacker Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
More revenue is always good. Why not?
Do other NCAA behemoths sell alcohol at their on-campus football games? I have no idea.
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guinnessgirl13 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
The cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.
Are we talking about drinking again
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TNCOWBOY7 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Should we do this again, Husker?
/I say no
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VladimirCrouton Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:16 PM
Are we talking about drinking again
Pretty sure drinking is killing me slowly. I need to quit.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:17 PM
The cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
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ms621 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:17 PM
Pretty sure drinking is killing me slowly. I need to quit.
Life is killing us all slowly. So why worry about whether you drink too much?
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Do other NCAA behemoths sell alcohol at their on-campus football games? I have no idea.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/07/10/good-question-how-many-colleges-sell-beer-at-sports-stadiums/
They always have beer at the bowl games I go to. But the number of schools that do it for regular season is small.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Pretty sure drinking is killing me slowly. I need to quit
No, you need to change your outlook on drinking into a positive, glowing one.
No, you are going to have to turn this opportunity yes!
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guinnessgirl13 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Since our games are at Raymond James they sell it. They also sell it at the baseball/softball complex on campus.
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guinnessgirl13 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
This is my now my motto for life.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:21 PM
No matter to me. If I’m in Austin on game day, I’d rather drink at Scholz Beer Garten and watch the game on TV than sweat my ass off at the stadium.
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ms621 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:22 PM
University of Houston sells beer at games. It was the only redeeming factor for what was otherwise very shitty Robertson Stadium.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Don’t think it’s a big deal. They started selling beer at West Virginia games, and the couches of Morgantown have survived relatively intact.
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A.P. Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Syracuse sells beer at the Dome
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sousedbergin Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:34 PM
Texas spends $23 million on gameday expenses which is money funnelled into a booster-Mexicans-shooting-program (BMSP). Suds will help launder more money for elite athlete Mexicans. As UT is non-profit all the money has to be spent. So remember that a dollar from every beer consumed goes to a Mexican family of excellent genes.
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sousedbergin Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Pretty sure drinking is killing me slowly. I need to quit..
..being such a prissy dickhole.
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A.P. Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:37 PM
Since our games are at Raymond James they sell it. They also sell it at the baseball/softball complex on campus.
They need to sell beer at the basketball games. Only way to make that bad offense tolerable
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:39 PM
Soused, answer my question about Stompin’ Tom Connors that I posted in an earlier thread but am too lazy to go look up.
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sousedbergin Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:42 PM
Soused, answer my question about Stompin’ Tom Connors that I posted in an earlier thread but am too lazy to go look up.
What’s the question? I am a very important, shirtless, tipsy man and can’t be combing through for all correspondences.
/Need some of that Mike NYC own name Google alerts juice
//Then kill myself for being such a wanker
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arkbadger Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:43 PM
How much fucking money do these AD’s need?
the women’s swimming and diving team hasn’t been puling it’s weight, someone needs to keep the Title IX teams afloat.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:43 PM
Was he really a big name up there, or more like the Canuckian Hasil Adkins? I’d never heard of him before.
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:44 PM
I am a very important, shirtless, tipsy man
Please tell me you’re making another video of yourself driving at 10 mph while you’re typing this.
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sousedbergin Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:50 PM
He was a legend but retired in protest finding our jingoist radio and television regulations not jingoist enough. His hockey song was what most Canadian kids grew up to. Seems all in a great guy though and Canada lost one of our best to have beer with.
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A.P. Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:52 PM
THE GOOD OL HOCKEY GAME!!!!!!!
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Nada Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:54 PM
Thanks for the info. You may now return to your inveterate guzzling of syrup and poutine.
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guinnessgirl13 Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:55 PM
They need to sell beer at the basketball games. Only way to make that bad offense tolerable
I was amazed this morning to see that they actually WON a game.
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 4:58 PM
WWoS is obsessing over Duffy
I don’t really get it. I made one comment disagreeing with something. Exactly how is that obsessing? And Mullet is just pissed I unfollowed him and he had to beg me to follow him back.
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sousedbergin Says:
March 7th, 2013 at 5:04 PM
And Mullet is just pissed I unfollowed him and he had to beg me to follow him back.
“Mullet just ran .7 miles in a third world country known as ‘Bama using Nike’s Cousin Fucker Tracker”