Bevo U being in the dumper is largely the cause of aTm's ascension.
Their days may be numbered. Hope they find creative ways to fill an over-sized stadium.
Yeah, they'll be calling Baylor to rent the tarps to cover the upper levels of the endzone's. I never understood why they think they need 102K seats when in the 10-15 years leading up to joining the SEC they couldn't sell out conference games in a 87K seat stadium.
Ex. in 2006 they had at least 12K below capacity for every non-conf game. Against a ranked Mizzou they were 12K below capacity in a conference game. In 2009 they were 6K or more below capacity for every non cons game and 2 conference games failed to sell out. In 2010 they failed to sell out any of their non conference games or, the OU game. A top 10 ranked OU.
In 2011 they did sell out their games coming off a Cotton Bowl appearance an a pre-season top 8 ranking. They sold out 2012 being new to the SEC and 2013 with the "excitement" of Johnny Football. in 2014 they did not sell out a single game. To be fair, they increased capacity to 106K. However, when it reduced to the finalized 102K this season, they had 3 games that did not sell out including a conference game VS SC. If the short horns start to take back the state and media attention, they will have 20K empty seats or more when playing SMU, Sam Houston St, Rice etc. They will have 5-10 thousand empty seats for conference games vs teams other than LSU or BAMA.