We went to Franklins. Got there at 10:20ish. Served food about 1230. The food was great. The experience was good. I would have to try other Brisket places there to decided if Franklin's brisket would be worth the wait, again. However, I met a few people and had nice conversations waiting in line.
Austin is a bigger city than what I was expecting. Once again, a thriving city ....... reminding me what Memphis is not. Austin seems comparable to Nashville.....maybe larger than Nashville????
After Franklins, We went to S Congress to shop. Your daughters and wives would like it. I had to have a drink looking at prices. Also, seemed like that is the area of town where the sorority types live upon graduation....no idea. But there was lots of young people, shopping, eating.....wearing their Lulu..
We made it to the west end of 6th Street later that night. Some pretty cool bars that were crowded by 10pm. Again, ran into numerous young State fans. If we were worth a damn at football, we would have had a much larger following that weekend. Anyways, I was told we did good visiting the west end of 6th Street because as you go more east, near the interstate, it gets rowdier late a night.
Their campus.....is in the middle of the city. I guess I am used to State kinda being its own place.......but being in the middle of the city means having a Target, literally next to campus as well as numerous other retailers and bars/restaurants. Their campus is ok. It is big, area wise, with many mature trees. The buildings were yellow brick shingled in Spanish tiles. Their campus seemed like a more urban, slightly larger, hilly LSU campus. For a school that rich......their signature large building on campus looks neglected. It needs a refurb. The football stadium and basketball arena is where the money is....very nice buildings.
GameDay.....maybe I didn't see the right areas.......however tailgating was mostly corporate and Longhorn club. HOWEVER, they do have a Bevo Blvd that was like a carnival atmosphere with midway type games, photo ops and vendors giving away swag.....they had ESPN up on some projection type screens. Also, on the other side of the stadium, they had a stage with a band. However a larger stage for the band than at State and this three story, covered rig/structure to watch the band, grab a drink and snacks and watch ball games. THey had Ok St and KState playing on the TVs. We had to get that fixed quick. A Texas fan did ask who we were rooting for in the OM/KY game......seriously????? He didn't realize the Egg Bowl rivalry. Overall, the Texas fans were extremely hospitable to us. Back to the live music set up......it was cool. State really needs to move their live music for GameDay to the Ampitheater and move the black tents to the Junction.
Only other thing.....the in stadium experience was much like anywhere else. Hype videos, Bevo intro.....very little band, mostly rap music, salute to service...."welcome back to campus...." WHich they played the music almost every down until our center bent over to place his hand on the ball...........I don't want to hear anything about our cowbells.. OH........That damn canon. That is annoying and I imagine a shock for any visitor the first time it explodes. On the TD at the end of the first half.....our DB should file suit for damaged hearing as they set that thing off with he and the Tx WR very close to it.
Anyways....cool city, nice people, decent stadium experience. Would do again, if we field a competitive team.
Austin is a bigger city than what I was expecting. Once again, a thriving city ....... reminding me what Memphis is not. Austin seems comparable to Nashville.....maybe larger than Nashville????
After Franklins, We went to S Congress to shop. Your daughters and wives would like it. I had to have a drink looking at prices. Also, seemed like that is the area of town where the sorority types live upon graduation....no idea. But there was lots of young people, shopping, eating.....wearing their Lulu..
We made it to the west end of 6th Street later that night. Some pretty cool bars that were crowded by 10pm. Again, ran into numerous young State fans. If we were worth a damn at football, we would have had a much larger following that weekend. Anyways, I was told we did good visiting the west end of 6th Street because as you go more east, near the interstate, it gets rowdier late a night.
Their campus.....is in the middle of the city. I guess I am used to State kinda being its own place.......but being in the middle of the city means having a Target, literally next to campus as well as numerous other retailers and bars/restaurants. Their campus is ok. It is big, area wise, with many mature trees. The buildings were yellow brick shingled in Spanish tiles. Their campus seemed like a more urban, slightly larger, hilly LSU campus. For a school that rich......their signature large building on campus looks neglected. It needs a refurb. The football stadium and basketball arena is where the money is....very nice buildings.
GameDay.....maybe I didn't see the right areas.......however tailgating was mostly corporate and Longhorn club. HOWEVER, they do have a Bevo Blvd that was like a carnival atmosphere with midway type games, photo ops and vendors giving away swag.....they had ESPN up on some projection type screens. Also, on the other side of the stadium, they had a stage with a band. However a larger stage for the band than at State and this three story, covered rig/structure to watch the band, grab a drink and snacks and watch ball games. THey had Ok St and KState playing on the TVs. We had to get that fixed quick. A Texas fan did ask who we were rooting for in the OM/KY game......seriously????? He didn't realize the Egg Bowl rivalry. Overall, the Texas fans were extremely hospitable to us. Back to the live music set up......it was cool. State really needs to move their live music for GameDay to the Ampitheater and move the black tents to the Junction.
Only other thing.....the in stadium experience was much like anywhere else. Hype videos, Bevo intro.....very little band, mostly rap music, salute to service...."welcome back to campus...." WHich they played the music almost every down until our center bent over to place his hand on the ball...........I don't want to hear anything about our cowbells.. OH........That damn canon. That is annoying and I imagine a shock for any visitor the first time it explodes. On the TD at the end of the first half.....our DB should file suit for damaged hearing as they set that thing off with he and the Tx WR very close to it.
Anyways....cool city, nice people, decent stadium experience. Would do again, if we field a competitive team.
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