During the 2006 season, I saw precisely one game live: land thieves. Every other game I DVRed and watched later, forcing myself to go through a “media blackout” the entire day That even goes for the horrendous loss to the agros. But, it was what I had to do that year to watch games with a newborn and 3-yo. Last year was better as my son was old enough to stay interested in half the game most times, but I still did it a couple of times.

It sucks – I’ll be the first to tell you – but the good news is that it only takes about 1 1/2 hours to watch the game that way .:-)

For those starting to college/grad school and worried about work, you have a more flexibility than those who have work or kids. I know a lot of grad students who claim to not have time for football. They lack the requisite dedication and are not worthy of your sympathy. A proposed solution? Either get more done during the week (including Friday night) or get up really early on saturday and get it done.

You’ll ask yourself if it’s worth it- the answer is always yes. Even early in the season against Rice or North Texas. You can sleep when you’re dead; college football waits for no man, woman or child.

So I have always looked up the Local Texas Exes association and watched the game where they were. This works in big cities around the country also, But I would be careful wearing your Burnt Orange with Pride in Oklahoma, you could lose a nut thath way!

for a few years there my cousin and I were missing games, at least visually, during deer season (no more place to hunt so not a problem anymore) because of a crappy antennae tv out in the middle of nowhere. We finally got fed up and took an extra satellite dish we “came into” and an extra card we talked out of a rep and hooked it up at the hunting shack. Hunting was much better after that.

At least this year that T+1 game is back to T+1/2 so less people will be at work.

As far as graduate school, I went to law school for 3 years at UT and never missed a game with no problem. Face it, if school was that much more important to you than football you would have gone to a graduate school with a crappy football team, Lord knows there are enough of them out there.

I was in a tough, time-consuming grad program and still found time to watch football, read about football, play in a rock and roll band, and tour Austin’s various bars and TexMex joints. People who whine about grad school taking up 100 percent of their time are either wusses, bad time-managers, lazy, or simply don’t care about football or having a social life.