Football question

[allday92]

If I am not mistaken, didn’t city of Austin pay 300!million and private donor covered the rest of the UT stadium? I think that was what led to trying to get Norman involved.

Moody Foundation paid $130M. Then they did an innovative deal with Oak View Group. Oak View is a LA company that manages sports venues. Oak View contributed the rest. Oak View built and manages the arena, and for the first 10 years, they get all revenue. After 10 years, the university will start to earn a portion of the revenue from the arena.

‘An innovative deal’: How Texas got a $300 million basketball arena at no cost to taxpayers, boosters

The new Moody Center will be open to the public this week, and the University of Texas-owned arena was built at no costs to the taxpayers, boosters.

www.statesman.com

 

[Boom Soon]

Mateer hasn’t been good, at all. I’m willing to give Ben a bit more time for a couple reasons. One, the overall lack of offensive talent. Two, he wasn’t the guy who took a massive swing on Ott. And I guess another thing is, we still have two or three position coaches who simply shouldn’t be here. When the staff hasn’t developed a tight end or RB for three years, it’s hard for an OC to come right in and get things rolling from day one.

I agree he hasn’t done a good job this year, though. You still should be able to scheme up a handful of plays per game that get easy yards. And Mateer’s play falls in part on the guy who has coached him for three years.

Flame me all you want, but there’s a small part of me that hopes OU loses the MU or LSU game to remind Venables that changes need to be made on offense. I could totally see a scenario where OU makes the playoffs and Venables doesn’t make the necessary changes because he’s just happy they made the playoffs.

Venables has silenced the haters for atleast another year. He’s proven that he can build a championship defense and culture. Now, he needs to do what he’s gotta do to build a championship level offense. Go get the best position coaches that Arbuckle wants and go get a quarterback.

 

[snydrosooner]

Moody Foundation paid $130M. Then they did an innovative deal with Oak View Group. Oak View is a LA company that manages sports venues. Oak View contributed the rest. Oak View built and manages the arena, and for the first 10 years, they get all revenue. After 10 years, the university will start to earn a portion of the revenue from the arena.

‘An innovative deal’: How Texas got a $300 million basketball arena at no cost to taxpayers, boosters

The new Moody Center will be open to the public this week, and the University of Texas-owned arena was built at no costs to the taxpayers, boosters.

www.statesman.com

I saw an interview where Mathew mcanahey said he worked with city of Austin to build stadium as a liaison. Maybe he assisted with that company.