I’ve been a pretty regular attendee of home games, OU games, and the occassional conference championship since ‘99 and to me the Missouri game was the best environment I’ve seen at home. Of course some fans in the alumni section don’t stand throughout the game, but I didn’t see a single person without their Horns up or not attempting to clap or cheer along. My issue with stadium noise though will never be with the alumni – their dues have long been paid and their checkbooks make a lot possible.

If i were nitpicky – the student sections near me have been surprisingly late in arriving to every game this year so far. Once they’re in, they’re loud and hell though.

I’ve said this before, but DKR’s acoustics don’t create the kind of revirbirations you get at other stadium because the upper deck does not hang over the lower deck. Nothing can be done about that, still the energy is getting better.

How much of the difference can be attributed to the 7pm kickoff and those 4-5 extra hours of “tailgating”?

I was on the field for the Missouri game and it was extremely loud at all spots on the field for the whole game. I heard a newspaper reporter, who covers the Longhorns and is not a UT grad, comment at the end of the game on the loudness of the crowd. He said this was not your normal Texas crowd. I noticed how responsive the crowd was even at the Ark. game.
Keep it up!

My seats are in the NEZ and it sounded pretty loud, but in our area I think at least part of the silence was stunned astonishment at the excellence of Texas’ performance. It should be louder this week.