F1/Okie State game still on collision course

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giveemhell

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F1 chooses (so far) to keep the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin the weekend of November 16th next year: the Link
That's going to be a very interesting weekend if neither side blinks...
 
Given all the joy and elation expressed here when F1 was announced (one of the longest threads I've ever seen), it appears we're now on the cusp of seeing the downside to getting what so many wanted.

If lovers of F1 and Texas sports didn't see this coming, I have no sympathy for any displeasure or disruption.

Texas sports were here first; there's a certain arrogance in F1's not scheduling around it to begin with.
 
F1 is bigger than the game, several games in fact. I want to say their schedule was done prior to the Big 12 making theirs but I could be mistaken. There is far less wiggle room there than the football one.

I would also assume that many hotel rooms are already swallowed up by F1. The price they charge for rooms for them is much higher than that of football games (more of a money crowd) and I doubt the Horn fans will enjoy paying almost 500 bucks a night per room.
 
Some hotels are already saying they are full the first two game weekends for 2013; and the regular rates they are quoting is in the $450 range. That ain't the F1 effect.
 
Isn't this the ultimate race in the F1 next year? I would think it would be a big deal for Austin to host the last race of the season.
 
TV is not even comparable. One race trumps a whole season for the Horns with room to spare. I was talking more about the impact and benefit to Austin. Should have clarified.
 
There should be a rumble that weekend. The angry Horn fans would pound those sissy F-1 fans into the ground.
 
A night game would be the best. You could go watch practice and qualifying in the morning and then go to the game that night. I'll rent my house out too and make some $$ while I'm at it.

Sounds like a kick *** weekend to me!!
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The Big12 should blink. Just change the goddam schedule. Okie Lite fans should be putting all kinds of pressure on the conference because it's going to be impossible for them to get hotel rooms in Austin, and the few that ARE available will be ridiculously high.
 
Actually, F1's schedule is a lot more fluid at this point than the Big12.

And the F1 organizers should realize that one of the main things that helped the event go so well is going to be a total clusterfuck. F1 had their main shuttle stop at 15th and Trinity, using the park there for their shuttle lines and using the State parking garages for all the people taking the shuttle. On a game day that will all be taken by UT. Not to mention how far away they'd have to go to manage to get enough buses to run both of their shuttles AND the UT game day shuttles.

At the very least, F1 will have to move their shuttle stop. And yes, Texanne, I have a friend that has looked for hotel rooms for that weekend and they are already gone.
 
Isn't F1 is Sunday and we play Saturday? Why not just market the game to the F1 fans? or vice versa. Longhorn football is a pretty big deal, so it makes sense that some of these F1fans want to attend on Saturday? It may be pretty crowded around here, but i think Austin can handle it.
 
American football is a whimp on the grand scale of the planet, a blip. Here it's big but that's it. F1 shits turds bigger than American Football. I would love if many of the fans could give a damn about it but there have been people paid a lot of money in that industry that have tried to get it a global appeal as something more than a novelty. It is dwarfed by Soccer, as we call it here. I am lucky to be a fan of all 3 and enjoy them immensely.

Regarding the race on Sunday you are perhaps not aware of the goings on around a race. There is a practice day and there is a qualifying day. Both draw huge crowds to watch and be at the raceway. The rooms are taken up for many days up to a week before the event. Not just one or two for a Football game.

It's not seven or eight people crammed into a hotel room eating off of cold cuts and bread like many do at music festivals, trying to get by on the cheap...which is awesome and I have done it too. No harm, no foul.

The F1 crowd are paying top dollar for rooms, getting cars brought in from other states so the rental agencies can make a dent in the demand. There are helicopter tours and heli cabs. There are 500 buses brought in. See the difference?

It's more than one day.

F1 and that track can and will bring in much more money than ACL and SXSW likely combined. As more races come in, it grows in earning. Consider that large festivals can be held out there. It would probably be better logistically to have ACL Fest out there. Plenty of amenities, tons and tons of space to have stages not bleeding into one another as bad and so on, so forth. I would not be surprised to see that happen.

If the F1 schedule was made first, and I think it's likely it was, football needs to step aside this time. Both sides need to be careful in the future. F1 is something global. Austin is now global. It wasn't before. Don't overestimate the music scene, it's hollow compared to what it was.

Thank noise ordinances, zoning to allow apartments on Red River and on the loud part of Sixth.
 
It doesn't matter how big football or isn't elsewhere, it's freaking huge here and F1 - able to be many times more flexible since it only visits a place once per year and doesn't have a ripple effect on other schedules like football does - ought to move around it (and this should have been part of the agreement to have them here in the first place) just like would be the case for a local big-time soccer game in most other countries.
 
Do we know who had their schedule done first? Whoever did should get to keep it. I don't know which entity was first. I do know which one is bigger and brings more money to town all in all.

Don't say football because much of the crowd at the games lives in Austin or driving range and don't stay over night. Many do but not the majority.
 
Longhorn football always has a reservation for every Saturday in the fall. The F-1 needs to bow down and pay homage to the superior sport of real American football.
 
F1 was scheduled first. It was nothing short of an idiotic mistake on the part of the Big 12 schedulers to give UT a home game that weekend. The Big 12 should change it.
 
Texas Football first. I don't care about car racing and after talking with my tailgate friends, neither do most other football fans I know. Seems to be different fans for the most part.
I know I would have my motel reservations made early for that weekend, if I was staying in Austin.
 
In this day and age I am sure most Hotels don't care, but If I stayed at the same hotel/motel 5-6 weekends every football season and was told I couldn't get a reservation for the weekend of the f-1, I would make sure they knew I would no longer give them my business in the future. Probably wouldn't matter, but I would write the letter/email to the hotel's corporate office.
 
So you are saying that if you stayed at a place a few times and somebody made a reservation for the room before you did, the hotel should give you the room? Does that mean that if I have eaten at a restaurant more often than you, more regularly, and you make a reservation before I do, I should get the table and meal before you?

Reservation and reserve may not mean to you what you think it does. I get your point but you are wrong. If a hotel has booked the room,it's done. It's nothing personal to the Diablo family. A reservation is a first come first serve basis unless there is some insider club for Motel 6 I am not aware of.
 
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