Each and every Friday, the staff at Dave Campbell's Texas Football will answer your questions on any and everything - high school, college, recruiting, pop culture, food, you name it! Want to submit a question? use the #AskDCTF hashtag on Twitter and look out for a Facebook post asking for questions!
David Hammond: Why not have the championship games at the Alamodome soon? I know it needs work, but San Antonio is a nice city for leisure.
Greg Tepper: Honestly, I’d love to see the title games at the Alamodome, because San Antonio is one of my very favorite cities. But there is a big issue with the Alamodome (and NRG Stadium in Houston, too) that most people don’t realize: the locker rooms. When you play all the games at a central site, you need a minimum of four locker rooms, and ideally six — two for the teams playing the game, two for the teams arriving to get prepared for the next game, and (if possible) two more auxiliary locker rooms in case there’s a stack-up of games. The Alamodome and NRG Stadium have a grand total of two locker rooms — one for the home, one for the visitor. When the title games were at NRG Stadium in 2015, the UIL had to hang curtains and split the locker rooms in half so there were enough facilities. AT&T Stadium was built almost specifically so it could host the state title games — in fact, Jerry Jones invited high school coaches and administrators into construction planning meetings to ask them what they would need to make it a destination for high school games. I know that Houston and San Antonio fans are frustrated that the state title games seem camped in Arlington — really, I get it! — but ultimately, the building in Arlington is set up to host an event like the UIL state championships, while NRG and the Alamodome, as presently constructed, aren’t.
Ishmael Johnson: I think you said it yourself, the Alamodome needs work before that can be a discussion. A lot of it. I’d personally be in favor of having state in SA because it is geographically the most central location, but not until we see some big-time improvements to the Dome.
Matt Stepp: San Antonio is a great location for tourism and with the number of hotels and restaurants in the downtown area, having UIL State there would be an event. The issue is the locker room situation at the Alamodome, there still aren't four full locker rooms there and until the city of San Antonio makes those locker room upgrades its unlikely the Alamodome gets considered.
Ashley Pickle: I absolutely love the 2-1-0, but the facilities at the Alamodome, specifically the lack of locker room space just wouldn’t make it feasible until the make that change.
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Robert Lilly: I cannot stand it when Texas kids go to schools in other states, but I understand it. I never understand when they have to then turn and intentionally aggravate fans of those Texas schools. The Horns Down by Chandler Morris is the most recent example but there are others. Am I the only one aggravated by this?
Ish: Definitely not the only one, but I’m also in favor of just letting kids be kids. I think my generation (Born in late 90s) was the last one who grew up with Texas being basically the only thing consistently on TV, now a bunch of these players grow up watching Oklahoma, LSU and Alabama as much if not more than Texas so they don’t feel the same affinity.
Greg Powers: You are definitely not the only one aggravated by this because we had two questions on this subject on today's mailbag. I don't necessarily think top prospects weigh in state versus out of state when it comes to making a decision on what college to attend. Many of these decisions boil down to relationships and scheme fit and I think location is much less of an important factor in the process. I do not think OU commits will stop flashing Horns down anytime soon, no matter where they are from.
Shehan Jeyarajah: I understand some of the annoyance. However, the rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas is part of the fun of college football. We’ve seen players from Texas have anti-OU messages before too. Besides, Morris' “Horns Down” was far more to rally Oklahoma fans than it was about Texas fans.
If we don’t want Texas high school players to make fun of Texas schools, the best way to do that is recruit them to your school. Oklahoma, LSU and Ohio State have dominated this state in recruiting lately. All three have plenty of bragging rights. Scolding 17-year-old kids isn’t going to prevent them from trash talking your favorite school; getting them to Austin will.
Pickle: I think we all wished he would have stayed in Texas but you can’t blame him for going where he believed he would fit best. As for the horns down, you hate to see it but you also can’t blame him for trying to appeal to his new school and fanbase.
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Aaron Flynn: Can Ish share with us his current favorite video game?
Ish: Currently? I’ve played way too much Apex recently so right now either that or Fire Emblem Three Houses. I’d mention Enter the Gungeon too but I’m terrible at it.
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Karlos Rodgers: Who do you see winning 6A in 2020?
Tepper: My way-too-early, do-not-take-seriously, we-haven’t-even-had-realignment-yet 6A picks: Southlake Carroll in Division I, Alvin Shadow Creek in Division II.
Ish: I can’t do these projections from a year out, but I get a feeling that we’re going to be talking about Southlake Carroll in December next year in 6A DI.
Stepp: Another question that I think could be better answered after realignment, North Shore will get lots of early love but the district alignments definitely impact 6A and the state picks because of the division splits taking place after the season.
Powers: North Shore returns a vast majority of its team, including the return of wide receiver Shadrach Banks, a Texas A&M commit with game changing speed and explosion. In my opinion, another win will cement Dematrius Davis as one of the best quarterbacks in the history of #TXHSFB.
Pickle: Hard to bet against Dematrius Davis as a senior….
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@Snowlion53: You go to the concession stand at halftime, which one is your first choice? Frito pie, nachos, burger, or chilidog? #AskDCTF
Ish: Burger. I’m that guy that tries his best to eat semi-decently when I can during games so I gotta naturally take the thing with some semblance of vegetables.
Stepp: If its still warm outside it's a burger, but once it gets chilly its Frito Pie every time
Powers: Pizza
Shehan: I’ve always been a burger guy. It’s just more standard and easier to eat when you’re in the crowd. Hot dog falls in the same category, but chili dog is much more complicated.
Pickle: Frito Pie, hands down.
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@DerekDeLaCruz08: How about my TXST cats? Is this the year we see some wins? A lot of juco coming in. #AskDCTF
Ish: Man, listen… I hope so…I’m tired.
Shehan: The best thing you can say about Texas State is that Jake Spavital knows that what happened last season was unacceptable. The Bobcats made no real statistical improvement, so Spavital fired his offensive coordinator and multiple assistants and replaced them with an up-and-coming wide receivers coach in Jacob Peeler.
The other biggest thing you can say about Texas State is that the program might just have its quarterback. We’ve heard tremendous praise for Brady McBride, the Memphis transfer. If McBride can fit and provide a bigger role on this offense, more wins should come soon.
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