Daryl Morris got listed as 2nd team all Texas team. Pretty damn cool if I do say so myself.

Little surprised that Chase Harper didn't make it on the second team... but hey, we're first year start up, so I can't really complain.

Also interesting...

early in the magazine (page 18) it's got a picture of Arndt dropping back, but when we get to the section for the Bobcats 2 deep, it says Rutherford starting.

Maybe chalk that up to us being new and not getting a tremendous amount of coverage, but still... seems odd.

I noticed that too. I was disappointed when I saw that.

I wonder how they came about that information in the first place? If they can get every high school program right, who's the idiot that came up with that?

My biggest problems were that they predict us to beat NMSU, New Mexico, and Idaho but lose to SFA at home. I'd guess a reverse of those results.

Also I don't like how it says QB duty will be split again. Say no to Fumbleford.

Awesome read about Harper though. Can't wait to see him play again.

Other funny thing I saw was the guy who picked Nevada to win the WAC. Whoops.

SFA will be an interesting game. Thats our biggest trap game of the season.

I agree that its a trap game

For the sanity of our program and our fans, there are two games we absolutely cannot lose:

SFA & UTSA.

I would almost posture that a loss to either of those teams would more than offset a win against UH or Tech (though wins against neither team is likely).

After thumbing through the magazine I saw an ad for a new UT dorm, UNT schedule, and UTSA season tickets. Of course there was nothing for Texas St and I should have never assumed otherwise. Seems like it would have been an easy and cheap way to advertise. Throw a one page ad promoting season tickets for inaugural FBS season in an expanded stadium against teams like TT. Would have reached quite a few people.

I also realized that UTSA season tickets start at 120 while ours start at 80 and yet they've doubled out sales. I guess marketing helps.

No, it's not the marketing. It's the fault of the alumni. The fact that they are not BEATING down the doors of the AD to hand them money is just an affront to sensibilities.

The AD is doing EVERYTHING they should be perfectly. It's not their fault... It's everyone else's.

Yeah there were people on here complaining it was too expensive. Heck for FBS football it's the best deal around.

At some point people have to pay and UTSA fans are willin to. Plus they like fried chicken

I don't know why they don't look at things rationally:

$5 worth of marketing that generates $10 of revenue is not as good as a $500k marketing that generates $1MM worth of revenue.

Dave Campbell's is perfect for us... Focused audience that cares about college football. Most of the "t-shirt fans" that support the longhorns pick that mag up to read about what the longhorns are gonna do... If they see a Bobcat Advertisement about us playing Tech in that same mag... there might be a bit of pickup for us from it.

I totally hear you on that one. We are really acting like newcomers and our athletic dept should have known that Texas State and UTSA are both being analyzed and given a share of the coverage, for the first time, to the most diehard football fans (people willing to still pay to read about football). We really dropped the ball on this one. If you don't advertise directly to your target market I don't know how you expect to make any diffrence in the attendance. They might have figured they had a five page so whats one page going to do for us. But it shows that you are proud of and believe in your product enough to at least give people they information they need to purchase it.

Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine does not accept phone calls or advertising dollars from university AD's. The only way to get placed in those pages is to pay a marketing firm big, big money to make a phone call on your behalf and then deliver a suitcase full of your money to an undisclosed location you will never know (after they of course remove their percentage from inside said suitcase of money).

Unless they had it explained to them (by a professional marketing firm), most Texas schools with an overwhelmingly localized fan base (on most Saturdays in the fall these alumni and potential fans are predominantly located nearby at this location here: http://www.texassports.com/facilities/royal-memorial-stadium.html) would not recognize any value in promoting their program in such a publication, 1) it has a limited , regional, focused circulation and you almost never see it for sale anywhere, and; 2) it has a misleading title - Dave Campbell's TEXAS FOOTBALL MAGAZINE - not very clear is it?, this publication could be about anything, who can tell?

However, I was able to bribe someone HIGH UP in the PR game who works for a firm assigned to service another school in Texas to smuggle me out of their office rolodex (which they keep in a safe, in a locked office, incriminating photo of my "acquaintance" "borrowing" this contact information for me: http://ultimatereviews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Ethan_Hunt_Dangling_Cruise.jpg ) a contact link to get behind the iron curtain that guards access to advertising in Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. Here is that secret link which only the most influential and expensive PR firms have access:
http://www.texasfootball.com/advertising

Larry better definitely leave this type of stuff to the professionals who can handle it. I don't care if the right people cost seven figures, money well spent. You ever see someone lose a hand to a computer mouse or an arm ripped out while dialing a tricky phone?? Ain't pretty man, ain't pretty.

CLASSIC.