Texas…Although OSU was only given 4000 tickets to get into Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, many more thousands of Buckeye fans intend to turn that weekend into their own memorial of the game, royal or otherwise. Bruce Brandel, vice president of the Austin chapter of the Ohio State Alumni Association said, “We’re projecting 35,000 or 40,000 people”. To prepare for that onslaught, the association plunked down $10,000 to rent out the Erwin Center (the 16,000 seat UT basketball arena) just a few blocks from the stadium. There, they’ll put together an away “Skull Session” complete with the Buckeye Band, being sent to Austin through a private donation of nearly $250,000. That’s not enough, of course. So the alums lined up Stubbs, a huge bar and amphitheater to become “Varsity Club West” and expect one huge Buckeye bash on both Friday night and Saturday. Who gets to the game from there? Well, that’s going to be a struggle – both logistically and financially. With tickets soaring over the $1000 mark, one broker put it: “They’ll pay when they have to. These are the two biggest spending sports schools on the planet. And this is the World Cup of football”…
