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Big-time football will change Texas State forever. Here’s how.

Kinky Friedmanon Rob Robinson

Sun God vs.Frisbee Dan

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ContentsBOBCAT MAGAZINE

Fall 2012 / Vol. 1, Issue 1

Sweeping the attic of San Marcos

In the wake of longtime shopkeeper Rob Robinson’s death, friends and family consider the future of the iconic Hill Country Humidor. Page 26

The Bobcats’ game changerTexas State football is finally moving up to the college big leagues this fall. The program, the fans, and the university will never be the same. p. 18

Sunset at Sewell ParkWhat happens when middle-aged mascots collide? Two Sewell Park rivals, Frisbee Dan and the Sun God, explain the fisticuffs that led to the Sun God’s one-year ban from campus. p. 10

Blue October comes homeSan Marcos resident and Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld credits his adopted hometown with saving his life. p. 30

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H New cowboy boots show Bobcat pride, p. 8

H Unmanned drones surveil the river, p. 8

H Alcohol ban takes effect in January, p. 9

Cover photograph and photography on this page by Jamie Maldonado

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Brigitte Foster-Hylton is one of Jamaica’s most decorated track stars, but a single achievement has always eluded her. A 1998 graduate of Texas State, she claimed a world championship three years ago and still holds the Bobcats record for the 100-meter hurdles, with a blistering time of 13.13 seconds. But Foster-Hylton wanted an Olympic

medal. Competing in August at the

London Games, her fourth trip to the Olympics, she clipped a hurdle in the first heat and stumbled in her quest for gold. A day after the disappointing turn of events, Foster-Hylton told the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper she would retire. “I’m still hurting,” she said. “It’s going to take some time. Maybe after the finals I will be able to move on, but it’s hurdling and I guess the Olympics just isn’t my thing.”

I’ve talked tothem a lot about

taking on the qualities of a real bobcat. A

bobcat will fight you with everything he’s

got, he’s a tremendous competitor, he’s very

resilient, he’s respected by everyone, and

that’s what I want our football team to be. It’s hard to correlate W’s into all this right now with the move and everything, but I want our players to be great competitors, fighters and resilient, and have the respect

of everybody when we walk off the field.”

- Dennis Franchione Texas State head

football coach

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FRAN SAYS: RESPECT

THE BOBCAT

BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOBCAT NATIONNothing says “You’ve arrived” quite like your very own line of cowboy boots. In another sure sign of Texas State’s rising prominence — following its video game debut in the popular EA Sports NCAA Football franchise earlier this summer — the Bobcats can now brag about their special line of manly footwear being offered by Austin-based Game Day Boots. The boots feature the Bobcat logo embroidered on the shaft, above the heel, and the top of the foot, so everyone will know where your allegiance lies — so long as they happen to glance down at your toes. Available in cowboys’ and cowgirls’ sizes, a new pair will set you back $399 at the nearest retailer, Allens Boots on South Congress in Austin.

WORLD-CHAMPION HURDLER HANGS UP SPIKES

Local conspiracy theorists can forget about black helicopters. For the past year, researchers with the River Systems Institute at Texas State University have been flying an unmanned aerial vehicle — in other words, a drone — in the sky as high as half a mile above the San Marcos River. Unlike its military counterparts, Texas State’s drone doesn’t strike al-Qaida militants or spy on top-secret locales. Rather, the eight-pound device captures high-resolution images that have been used to map ecosystems, track bird habitats and monitor nonnative bass for removal from the Blanco River, among other things. And drones are far more affordable and safer than a helicopter or small airplane, according to researchers. “If something goes wrong, it’s usually a cheap, easy fix,” says Kristy Kollaus, a fish biologist. “And nobody died,” adds drone pilot James Tennant.

Drones take flight to gather river intelligence

Tom Heard, left, and James Tennant demonstrate a drone launch.

RIVER DRONE AND DENNIS FRANCHIONE PHOTOS BY JAMIE MALDONADO

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THE BAN, BY THE NUMBERS

45 Number of citations issued so far this summer in San Marcos parks,

on weekends and holidays, for liquor law violations.

17 Arrests for all offenses in San Marcos parks during weekends and holidays

since Memorial Day.

43 Average arrests in parks each of the last two summer seasons.

200,000 Estimated visits logged to river parks

during the summer season.

1,100 Signatures collected last spring on a petition opposing

a proposed ban on the display and consumption of alcohol in San Marcos parks.

4 Council members who voted for the ban anyway, a majority. The ban goes into

effect Jan. 1, 2013.

The San Marcos City Council in May approved a sweeping package of new parks rules, including a ban on the consumption and display of alcohol, that aim to end the party scene at parks along the San Marcos River. The measures also increase littering fines and ban Styrofoam, tobacco and fishing spears. Police Chief Howard Williams told council members he did not intend to enforce the alcohol ban against parkgoers who are peacefully minding their own business. The council has to trust law enforcement to enforce the ordinance with a light touch, he said. “Banning all alcohol in all parks is not a reasonable solution, in my personal opinion, to the problems we have,” Williams said. The rules won’t go into effect until Jan. 1 — giving San Martians a few more months of sipping beer by the river.

Drink fast: River parks will dry up next year

The “River of Innocence” flows over Cape’s Dam. City leaders are considering buying 98 acres on both sides of the river, including Thompson’s Islands.

SHOULD CITY SNATCH IDYLLIC CAPE’S CAMP?Voters will be asked in November if the city should buy — or take — the largest undeveloped, privately-owned property on the San Marcos River within the city limits. A student housing developer has part of the River Road property under contract, including the area known locally as Cape’s Camp, but some residents are pushing for City Hall to step in and purchase all 98 acres. A nonbinding referendum will poll citizens on whether the city should buy the land — or use condemnation, as necessary, to secure it for public use. The property includes shady, manmade Thompson’s Islands on a part of the river wrestled into submission 160 years ago through construction of a dam and mill chase.

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F R I S B E E D A N


He was banished from campus during the great Frisbee fracas of 2012, but the Sun God vows to rise again.

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t’s a hot August af-ternoon on campus,

and Frisbee Dan is toss-ing discs as tubers drift

along the San Marcos River through Sewell, that green

sanctuary on the campus of Texas State University. Stu-dents swim or sunbathe on the grassy hill, guys play

pickup basketball, and Frisbee Dan, 52, commands his usual disc launch site near the riverbank.

You can’t miss him. He’s been fling-ing Frisbees here for more than two decades, wearing his infamous short shorts, the wide-brimmed hat, the goggles, and the smears of sunscreen. A black shin guard shields his right leg when he feels like kicking a Frisbee be-fore catching it or spin-ning it on his finger.

He hauls in another be-hind-the-back catch, lets out an astonished chuckle, and shakes his head no — not in his house.

“Don’t even go there,” he says be-fore skipping the disc along the grass like a stone across still water. “This is impossible. I don’t do these very of-ten.”

Frisbee Dan, less widely known by his real name, Dan Barry, has been throwing Frisbees for most of his life — beginning long before he jumped out of a moving pickup truck in his native state of Ohio, injured his head, spent 10 days in a coma and moved to San Marcos in 1986 to seek care from a local rehabilitation center. He found work as a landscaper and be-gan spending his afternoons at Sewell Park in 1990, relying on his balance and timing to overcome the loss of pe-ripheral vision on his right side.

Several years ago, another Sewell Park icon contender arrived on the scene. Dillon Scott was taller than Frisbee Dan, tanned, shirtless and

buff, with a white mane flowing from his receding hairline.

“He actually taught me to throw a Frisbee,” recalls Scott, 56. “You get bored after a while. He was always there. I was always there. We eventu-ally started throwing.”

Scott drew attention for his dance moves, the way he lifted his hands to the sun as he listened to trance, techno and dubstep tunes piped through his earbuds. Over time he earned a series of nicknames, from Poseidon to Zeus to Apollo, until one of them stuck.

“I ended up the Sun God,” he says.Both men enjoyed the attentions

of Texas State students, not minding or noticing when it occasionally took on a harder edge of mockery. The Sun God’s rising fame caused friction with Frisbee Dan, however, and the resent-ment seemed to spill over in a video produced by the University Star in April 2011, when Frisbee Dan insulted the Sun God for not working, and for living with his mother. They traded words. On Jan. 13, 2012 — “a day that will live in infamy,” according to the Sun God — Frisbee Dan tossed a disc that landed at the Sun God’s feet.

“I should have tossed it away,” re-calls the Sun God. “He comes and picks it up, and as he’s walking away I say, ‘He’s a f—ing insect.’ He turns to me and starts raging on me, just rag-ing, raging, spitting. I go, ‘Get away from me.’”

“Do you know who I am?” Frisbee Dan said, according to the Sun God.

“Yeah, you’re a f—ing dick,” he re-plied.

The Sun God says he pushed Fris-bee Dan once, while Frisbee Dan says he was pushed four times. Either way, the altercation was reported to cam-pus police, who banned the Sun God from campus for one year. Talk of in-tervention by the Associated Student Government failed to materialize. An online petition went nowhere.

Frisbee Dan declines to discuss the matter in detail.

“It was not supposed to happen. What he did was not natural, and that’s why he’s not here,” he says.

“They asked me not to bring it up to anyone at any time. I’m not sup-posed to get into it.”

Eight months after the Frisbee fracas, Fris-bee Dan continues to play at Sewell each af-ternoon, while the Sun God spends his after-noons downriver at the city-owned Rio Vista Park, where he sits on

boulders and cheers along the kids who zip down the tube chutes.

“I call them the Rio Vista Village People because it’s a more chill crowd here,” he says. “As you can see it’s a lot more fun over here with the tubes, the kids, the dogs. I think it’s more representative of San Marcos.” Even still, he adds, he misses his old haunt. “Sewell is more of a spiritual place for me.”

Sewell is closer to the river’s head-waters, and he says he can feel the energy pouring out of Spring Lake. In March, he self-published a book called “River of the Innocents: A Spiritual Journey,” a fictional account of his own relationship with the San Marcos River, and he has circled Jan. 13, 2013, on his calendar — the day his exile from campus will come to an end.

“There will be a party at Sewell,” the Sun God says. “For sure.” H

“It was not supposed to happen. What he did was not natural, and

that’s why he’s not here. They asked me not to bring it up to anyone at any time. I’m not supposed to get

into it.” — Frisbee Dan

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WhereSan Marcos drinks

Booze is big business in San Marcos. That’s no surprise — it is a college town, after all. But just how much money are we talking

about? Millions, according to state tax records. Here’s a look at average alcohol sales flowing into local watering holes every month.

BAR/RESTAURANT ALCOHOL SALES

1 Harper’s Public House $110K/mo.2 Pluckers $92K3 Bar One Forty One $89K4 Zelick’s Icehouse $84K5 Texas Music Theater $81K6 Rooftop on the Square $73K7 Sean Patrick’s $71K8 Tap Room $68K9 Chimy’s $57K10 Bikini’s $55K

11 Bum’s Billiards $55K12 Nephew’s $52K13 Treff’s Tavern $51K14 Railyard $50K15 Showdown $49K16 Embassy Suites $49K17 Chili’s $47K18 Taxi’s $47K19 River Pub $45K20 Triple Crown $43K

21 Vodka Street $40K22 Rocky LaRues $39K23 Vault $39K24 Texas Roadhouse $37K25 Palmer’s $36K26 Saltgrass $34K27 The Den $33K28 Outback $31K29 Gray Horse $29K30 Restless Wind $24K

31 Red Lobster $23K32 Green Parrot $22K33 Los Cuco’s $22K34 Mamacita’s $22K35 Cats $18K36 Grins $18K37 Cheatham Street $18K38 Logan’s $17K39 River City $9K

Grand total: $1,778,424

Average monthly alcohol sales from June 2011 through May 2012 for establishments that have a mixed beverage permit.Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

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Present | Major new buildings and renovations in progress now or completed this year.

Department of Housing and

Residential Life. A new headquarters for the department responsible for on-campus living. Cost: $12.2 million.

Commons Dining Hall renovation.

A major overhaul of this

mess hub is scheduled to be completed this fall. The renovations include work on all three floors and upgrades to its antiquated electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems. Cost: $7.2 million.

Brogdon Hall renovation. The

residence hall is due an extensive renovation with expected completion in summer 2013. Cost: $7 million.

Chautauqua, Gaillardia halls

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Completed: June 2012Square feet: 190,047

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Completed: May 2012Gross square feet: 130,455Project cost: $47.7 million

With its Spanish tile-crowned turret and Latin-inscribed archway, the Undergraduate Academic Center is already a landmark in the San Marcos skyline. It houses the psychology, sociology and political science departments in addition to three floors of classrooms.

Past | Major new buildings and renovations in the past five years

Speck Street garage. Completed

in 2008 at a cost of $14.9 million.

Student Rec-reation Center.

Addition of 94,000 square feet completed in 2009 at a cost of $31.2 million.

Family and Consumer Sci-

ences expansion and renovation. Addition of 27,051 gross square feet to an existing facility. Completed in 2010 at a cost of $9.3 million.

Research green-house. Completed


Roy F. Mitte Build-ing renovation.

Completed in 2008 at a cost of $3.6 million.

Matthews Street garage. Completed

in 2010 at a cost of $25 million.

Concho Green. Demolition of Falls

Hall made room for a pedestrian mall running a two-block length of what was formerly Concho Street. Completed in 2008 at a cost of $3 million.

Beretta Hall reno-vation. Completed

in 2007 at a cost of $2 million.

Laurel Hall reno-vation. Completed


Theater Center renovation. Com-

pleted in 2009 at a cost of $2 million.

Baseball, softball complex. Ex-

panded baseball stadium can seat 2,000 fans. Softball can hold 1,000. Completed in 2009 at a cost of $8.9 million.

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Part of the university’s gray-to-green initiative, this city street is planned for conversion to a leafy pedestrian/bicycle mall. Design was completed and a construction contract was awarded in 2005. However, the start of work has been postponed to coordinate with unfunded major utility upgrades also needed in the cor-ridor. Projected cost: $5.5 million.

Psychology Build-ing renovation.

This older building on the Quad is slated for remodeling to house the computer science and philosophy classrooms and offices. Cost: $13.9 million.

Lampasas Hall renovation.

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For more than a year, the Spring Lake Restoration project has been erasing the remnants of the Aquarena Springs amusement park, which Texas State bought in 1994. Gone are all the buildings, the submarine theater, the Sky Spiral. Some archaelogists say the springs have been been continuously inhabited by humans for more than 13,000 years.

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West Campus Housing. Officials

are planning a 578-bed residence hall on the site of the old University Performing Arts Center. Construction was origi-nally scheduled to start in February and is now projected to begin this fall and open in time for the fall 2014 semester. Projected cost: $60.5 million

Engineering and Science. Texas

State will ask legislators for clearance to borrow money to build a behe-moth new building for its engineering, materials science and biology programs. The facility would sit on the site of Campus Colony and other aging, rundown student apartments. Projected cost: $93 million

Music. The university’s master

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The growing university might set itself up for a fall with this entertain-ment venture, but only a moral catas-trophe would leave it worse off than where it started, which was as a large

Texas university without a football team trying to compete in a football-mad culture of universities, alumni and legislatures. Here’s the bad news: college football and moral catastro-

phe are well acquainted. Some say that college football is moral catas-trophe, a joke that universities tell against their own high ideals. They say college football is to the university as the tail that wags the dog, forcing academic compromises that dimin-ish the spirit of inquiry, merely to entertain multitudes while enriching the coaches and athletic directors. They’re not wrong.

Others, stating the dis-senting viewpoint, aren’t wrong, either. They say things like, “Hook ‘em!” or “Gig ‘em!” It’s a mouthful, and it goes straight to the bond that happens with universities and their football teams. In a broad sense, you almost don’t have a university without one. (Example: the writer, a University of Minnesota alum-nus, watches the Gophers every Saturday, no matter how bad they are. They’re my guys!)

By BILL PETERSON

ow Texas State has big-time college football and, in the larger scheme of things, it’s an invitation to wider acceptance and acclaim for the

university. So, hurrah for all that. The academic business is all about prestige because prestige connects the university with money, and, especially in Texas, institutional prestige is tied somehow to college football.


The logic and history of growing universities suggest that Texas State, the fifth-largest university in Texas at 35,000 students, is at least due for this

development. Perhaps, also, the cost of not making this move

is even greater, depending on whether one supports

the agenda for growth in the university’s 2006

master plan.The nuances of

college football as a recruitment and develop-ment tool for the American university can

hardly be over-stated. Big-time

college football was born of universities

embracing the spec-tacle as a facet of “cam-

pus life,” which markets to

youths who might not be drawn to education. Football has succeeded to such a mighty extent that universities with successful football programs are in permanent danger of being behold-en to them. That’s what happened just now at Penn State. It happened across Texas in the 1980s, leaving ev-erybody damaged, though not really for very long. That’s because, as it so goes without saying, football is king in Texas.

With Texas State and Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) entering the bowl level this year, Texas has an extraor-dinary number of universities — 11 now — playing big-time college foot-ball, one of the greatest shows on Earth. Many Texans who never set foot inside a university classroom develop deep emotional attachments to these university football teams. How should Texas State advance among the elite Texas universities without that avenue for top-of-mind

name recognition across the general public?

Every Saturday during the fall, the college football teams line up to play, and the alums of their univer-sities and the fans of their teams — be they in the corridors of power or elsewhere — tweak each other with wagers, put-downs, memories, a lot of it in good fun, though deadly serious at times. It’s a folkway, a very com-monly walked folkway in Texas, and how is Texas State supposed to enter that folkway and be on that par with the other big universities when it doesn’t even have a team, in the rel-evant sense?

The university is avowedly on a mission. That mission is to grow. In 2006, the university approved a mas-ter plan with $633 million of con-struction, including an $83 million performing arts center, an $82 million engineering and sciences building, and $17.2 million (now $33 million)

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in improvements to Bobcat Stadium as part of a bid to launch a big-time football program. The master plan illustrates the university’s belief that explosive population growth in Texas amounts to a call for another research university in the state. And part of becoming that university is big-time football.

Why should that be so? What does football have to do with academic research? It makes little sense, per-haps, but the numbers through the years show, as do anecdotal accounts from university administrators, that successful college football teams draw the attention of relevant audi-ences and increase funding for the university.

Consider the following, from the abstract of a 2003 paper by Univer-sity of Maryland-Baltimore County economist Brad R. Humphreys. Ac-cording to Humphreys, data collected for 570 baccalaureate-level or higher institutions from 1976-1996 “shows that schools with Division I-A foot-ball programs receive about 6% more in state appropriations than schools that do not field a Division I-A foot-ball team. Institutions with success-ful football teams receive 3% to 8% increases in state appropriations the following year. Defeating an in-state rival in a prominent football game is also associated with an increased level of appropriation in the follow-ing year.

These results suggest that the to-tal economic benefit associated with big-time athletic programs may be larger than previously thought.”

The paper considers just the im-pact of football on general fund ap-propriations from state legislatures, where universities, their alumni and their fans, in whatever positions or alliances, exert pressure for billions in public money. And how is Texas State supposed to be in that game when it doesn’t even have a team to play in it?

About 15 years ago, when Southwest Texas State was still basically a teacher’s college with 15,000 stu-

dents and one doctoral program, San Marcos all but shut down in the sum-

mer. Now that the San Marcos cam-pus of Texas State enrolls 35,000 stu-dents and runs 12 doctoral programs, summer school is about as crowded as October used to be.

Now, October is really crowded, though, and that’s football season. And the fifth-largest university in Texas is a non-entity on those Satur-days when the names of the univer-sities are most often spoken among the big hitters and common people. That’s why, on Nov. 10, 2010, Texas State President Denise Trauth said that the university is growing, and the football team needs to be a part of that growth. On that day, Texas State joined the Western Athletic Conference, thus entering the major leagues of college football. Staying there is another matter, and it cer-tainly has been.

Has the university set itself up for a fall? Not if you believe the univer-sity’s marketing, because the uni-versity calls itself “The Rising Star of Texas,” and a rising star certainly can’t be setting up for a fall, because it’s a rising star, not a falling star. But what would a fall look like, any-way?

As an economic proposition, as a matter of putting the university in some financial risk for such an ex-pensive endeavor, the students are taking a lot of that off the table. Sim-ply, the students are paying for it and, at this point, they are paying cheer-fully. With 80 percent approval in a 2008 vote, the students earmarked a $5 million annual subsidy in student fees for the athletic department, un-derstanding that it amounts to a $5 million annual subsidy for a football team. The football team certainly wasn’t going to raise this money on its own.

In 2006, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Education, Texas State spent $2.3 million on its Division 1-AA football team, which, being 1-AA, generated only $640,000 in revenues. With a $5 million stream of fresh annual funding for football, Texas State can easily run a football budget to compete in the WAC, where it will play this year, and the Sun Belt, to which it will move next season.

Behold this table, which shows

Alumni ‘coming out of the woodwork’Questions for Dr. Larry Teis, Texas State University athletic director:

Will the expansion and renovation of Bobcat Stadium be finished in time for the home opener against Texas Tech?We’ll easily be ready to play a game on Sept. 8. It’s exciting. Students will get a chance to walk over to the stadium, and they’ll be tailgating all day. We’re going to have live bands out here. It’s just going to be a great feel for everybody. It’ll be like the playoff games in ’05, when we had a packed house, but it will be with twice as many people.

You’ve sold about 6,500 season tickets so far, more than twice last year’s total. Who are these people?People are buying season tickets from Houston and San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, which is good because we can’t do it alone in San Marcos. People are coming out of the woodwork. Usually when somebody buys something and I don’t recognize the name, we’ll pull up the donor history, and we have a lot [of new season ticket holders] who have never given a penny to Texas State, and some of them graduated 30 or 35 years ago. So this just shows you that we’re bringing back a new group of people.

Why is moving up in football important for all of Texas State?You want to be with your peers, and now we’re an emerging research institution, and we’re probably No. 30 in the nation in terms of size. Academically we’re strong, so athletically we need to be strong and give something for our fans and our alums to come back and be proud of. If you go back and look at major research institutions, almost every one of them plays FBS football. So it’s kind of a parallel. I tell people this is not an athletic department move, this is a university move.

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*Home Games & Pre-Game Tailgating

the education department figures for football expenditures and revenues at the Sun Belt universities and Texas State in 2010:

School Expenditures RevenuesTexas State $3,564,171 $3,564,171Florida Intl. $7,224,803 $7,765,954Fla. Atlantic $5,256,458 $6,857,469Troy State $4,817,763 $4,817,763Middle Tenn. $7,244,795 $7,546,988S. Alabama $5,963,648 $5,963,648W. Kentucky $5,103,326 $5,103,326Arkansas St. $4,007,405 $4,007,405La.-Lafayatte $4,837,472 $4,837,472La.-Monroe $2,953,497 $2,953,497

A $5 million annual bump from the students gives the university a nice leg up on the college football competi-tion. It’s basically a license to operate $5 million in the red every year. If the Bobcats could just generate some pid-dling amount of football revenue, say $2.5 million, and put that with their $5 million subsidy, they would have the biggest budget in the league. In 2010, according to the education depart-ment’s figures, the average Big 12 pro-gram spent $16.3 million on football. If Texas State could just generate $11 million in football revenues, about the level of a good Conference-USA pro-gram, then it could at least spend with the average Big 12 program.

So much about this could go so right. The resources are in place to win. You’re located in Texas, recruit-ing the most fertile ground in Amer-ica, and you’re joining a conference, the Sun Belt, where you are the only Texas team. Texas State has the bud-

getary capacity and the local talent to succeed. Imagine how San Marcos will play with recruits now that it is in play for bowl-level football. A lot of recruiting is about whether the place you’re taking the kid to is better than the place you’re taking him from. San Marcos will win that decision with a lot of recruits, and it’s also going to win in comparison with some of the other cities where a Texas kid might take up college football. This almost can’t fail.

But it still could. Worst case sce-nario: the team lays an egg year after year, making the university a laugh-ing stock in the conversations where it wished to be mentioned. Students who are paying $10 per credit hour for a bad football team will ask, “Why

are we spending $5 million per year to be known as losers when we could be complete unknowns for free?” As the pressure to win mounts, maybe a little rule gets broken here and there, then bigger rules are broken and the NCAA comes to town with its gum-shoes. Suddenly, the university has an embarrassment on its hands, a public relations crisis, maybe even sanctions from the NCAA. Now you’re a univer-sity that lost control of your football program. Frowned upon. For $5 mil-lion per year in student fees.

Nobody wishes for any of this, of course, but it points to a very new state of reality concerning football at Texas State. There’s pressure to win. The game is way bigger now. That’s

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not just Texas State playing against, say, Texas Tech. It’s the State alumni versus the Tech alumni. It’s the State pressure groups against the Tech pres-sure groups. So, at least be respectable, then win in its turn. No one expects the Bobcats to win a conference champi-onship in the first couple years, but if they’re struggling in the Sun Belt for too long, then that will become their reputation.

One imagines what the groan-ing might sound like in 2016 if the Bobcats are struggling in the Sun Belt against the

likes of Troy and Louisiana-Monroe, names that are way too evocative of the Southland Conference. It’s not go-ing to seem very much like progress. And that raises the first living ques-tion around Texas State’s debut in big-time college football: Can Texas State gather momentum and become the best football program in the Sun Belt Conference quickly enough to whistle past the league’s identity crisis and be

optimally positioned four or five years down the road, when the conference television contracts come back up and another scramble begins? If so, then Texas State can move up quickly. But it will take more than winning.

Just now, we’ve seen UTSA go from nothing to Conference-USA simply be-cause it has a little bit of a television market and a demonstrated average home attendance of 35,000 (though promotionally aided). The situation is that fluid. We’ve already seen Texas State anticipate college football’s con-vulsions, jumping from the WAC to the Sun Belt before the other WAC jumpers could finish their paperwork.

Now, Texas State has to demonstrate that it brings more to the table than market potential, if it is to improve its position with the next round of televi-sion contracts. Can Texas State mobi-lize its alumni and fans as a reliable ticket-buying force? At the end of July, the Bobcats had sold fewer than 6,000

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“I haven’t been tubing in a while, but when I get some free time I like to get out there and hang out with the ladies on the side of the river. It’s special. It’s unique to San Marcos. Some people come here just because of that.”Adley EshraghipourSenior offensive linemanArlington

“The best part is the environment. It’s a college town and everything revolves around the school. You have the river here, and you have so much to do. You come outside and it’s steaming hot, and you can just jump in the river and float for a couple hours. We did it last year after two-a-days were over.”Joplo BartuSenior linebackerWaller

“It’s a smaller community where everybody knows everybody, in a sense. And of course the river. Not every school can say they have a river running through their campus, and when recruits see that, they see people laying out, having fun and enjoying themselves, that’s definitely an attraction.”Justin IwujiJunior safetyCarrollton

What’s so great about San Marcos, anyway?

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Sweeping the attic of San Marcos

Family and friends try to carry on the legacy of the Hill Country Humidor following the death

of owner and downtown fixture Rob Robinson

By Wes Ferguson • Photography by Jamie Maldonado

W hen he died in the spring, at age 59, the body of downtown shopkeeper Rob Rob-

inson was transported to a laborato-ry in Lockhart so a medical examiner could determine his cause of death.

The physician observed Robinson’s bushy eyebrows, the bushier mus-tache, and his mountain man-style beard, a gray tangle of facial hair that would have been familiar to any cus-tomer of the Hill Country Humidor. Robinson had been selling tobacco and swapping stories there for more than a quarter century.

The medical examiner measured Robinson’s beard, because that’s what medical examiners do. It was 10 inches long. She sized up his hair — 28 inches — and noted the six colored bands that held his ponytail in place. She also noticed his white Kinky Friedman campaign T-shirt and the message scrawled on it in red ink.

“Rob — See you in Hell!” the note read. It was signed, “Kinky.”

Robinson would have probably appreciated the final irony of that message. He and Friedman, the ci-gar-chewing, one-time Texas guber-

natorial candidate, had known each other since “Christ was a cowboy,” Friedman recalled in a recent phone interview. “I think we met on the gang plank of Noah’s ark.”

Robinson was a gentle man with great moral clarity, his friend said, a scholar and a “spiritual libertarian” in his outspoken political views. Others describe him as a bearded biker guy, or kindly and professorial, at ease debat-ing the finer points of Texas history, politics and tobacco. He was an ex-con who’d learned from his mistakes and turned his life around when he moved to San Marcos in 1983.

A lifelong smoker, Robinson opened the humidor in 1986, drawing custom-ers and cronies to the only place to buy a decent cigar or pouch of pipe tobacco between Austin and San Antonio. As for

the humidor itself, situated in a histor-ic storefront on the courthouse square, the best description comes from Fried-man. It was like a museum or attic, he said — the attic of San Marcos.

“And Rob had a lot of interest-ing things going on in his attic, too,” he recalled. “Rob was a very learned man about Texas and our history. He really was a scholar. If life had taken another turn, it’s hard to imagine Rob in academia, but he might have done very well as a professor.”

Over time, though, the shop had be-gun to show its age. Piles of stuff had accumulated like flotsam from Robin-son’s many interests. A friend and for-mer employee described Robinson as a “hoarder’s hoarder” who never found a flat corner of countertop or hardwood floor that he couldn’t pile over with a piece of memorabilia, Americana, or whatever else came through the door. He didn’t collect guitars and antique bicycles, so much as amass them.

In short, the humidor as he left it was a mess. Following his death on March 1, Robinson’s widow Shir-ley closed the store for three months while she and a team of friends sorted through the collectibles, the dozens of


A framed portrait of Rob Robinson rests on the counter at the Hill Country Humidor, the shop he owned until his death in March.

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wooden pipes, and the most puzzling discovery, a new Sony Betamax, still in the box. They dusted, straightened, cleared a wider path for the custom-ers, and reopened in early June.

“A few people have voiced the opin-ion that we’ve cleaned Rob right out of the store,” Shirley said. “A lot of people don’t want it to change.”

Even so, you can feel Robinson’s presence in every nook of the humi-dor. Toward the back, his name adorns heavy glass jars of fragrant cured to-bacco, some that he blended before he died. And though his passing at the age of 59 is not a great advertisement for smoking — the official cause of death was complications of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, for which tobacco use is thought to be a factor — the decor, the creaky wood floors and aroma of pipe tobacco filled this nonsmoker with an urge to light up.

On the other end of the shop, wisps of smoke curled from lighted pipes and cigars where a few of Robinson’s old cronies were sitting, smoking and trad-ing stories on an August afternoon.

“This was my hangout for years,” said Marion Johnson, a semi-retired conservationist who was puffing a “barber pole” cigar. “A lot of retired and old underemployed guys would smoke cigars and shoot the bull. Rob always led the conversation. He had more bull than anybody.”

Sitting in the leather chair next to Johnson, Bob Nelson cradled his pipe

as he drew on a blend of tobacco called Texas Ranger. His one-word descrip-tion of the post-Robinson humidor?

“Clean,” he deadpanned.“When we first started coming back

in, it was very emotional because we had all gotten so close to Rob,” Nel-son added. “He was everybody’s best friend. There’s not a part of this place that he didn’t have his hand on. We still talk about him every day.”

There is plenty to talk about. Rob-inson’s life was one of those great second-chance San Marcos stories. Born in San Antonio in 1952, Steven Lawrence “Rob” Robinson grew up a military kid who lived at Air Force bases in Germany, Colorado and North Carolina before returning to San An-tonio, where he graduated from high school. He rode a BMW motorcycle, played guitar, and did a little hard time in the early ’80s for a cocaine posses-sion rap, before moving to San Marcos to be near Shirley, who was attending Southwest Texas State University.

The humidor bounced around downtown San Marcos in its early years, with locations in the back of a pool hall and an old bakery where peo-ple played dominoes in the afternoons. Two decades ago he moved to the pres-ent spot, which quickly became one of the great social settings in town, said Tony Wilson, a former employee.

“Come in at three o’clock in the af-ternoon, and there would be three or four conversations going, and Rob was

the focal point of it all,” Wilson said. “He was a magnet who drew people. He could talk to people and make them feel welcome, and if you came in more than twice a year, you were a regular to him. ... I think it would have been a tragedy not to stay open,” Wilson con-tinued. “Obviously it’s not the same because Rob was the heart and soul of the humidor. Rob was great with people but not with housekeeping. It had to change. You can at least see things now. There was a time when you couldn’t see a surface.”

Amid the longterm cleanup, Shir-ley Robinson said business has been busier than usual this summer. She’s planning to reintroduce dominos soon and expects to host a grand reopening for the store in the fall.

“We want to continue the tradition of having the old-time tobacco shop where you’re welcome to come in and visit a while and get to know people,” she said. “So many people missed Rob, and I think they’re so happy to have that kind of shop open again. They have re-ally embraced it and really supported us re-opening. We’ve got people com-ing from all over, old friends calling up and coming from far-away places too.”

One of Shirley’s advisers, Mikey Orloff, calls the store the “last bastion of sanity in San Marcos.”

“We’re trying to shoulder some of his legacy, his mission,” Orloff said, “but I’m not filling Rob’s shoes, and we don’t know anyone around here who could.” H

season tickets.It has never been demonstrated

that Texas State can draw in the num-bers needed to succeed as a big-time college football program. Then again, it has never been tested. Last year, the Bobcats regularly put 15,000 fans into their 18,000-seat stadium. Now, Bob-cat Stadium is up to 30,000 seats.

We’ll learn soon enough how well the move to bowl level, by itself, moti-vates ticket sales. Single-game tickets went on sale to the general public on Aug. 15, though donors have been able

to purchase them since Aug. 1. The Bobcats have a tasty schedule

by which to build a following, both in San Marcos and around Texas. In ad-dition to six homes games, they play in Houston and San Antonio. They should play all around Texas, home-and-home, of course. Then again, if they’re invited just to drop in on the Longhorns or Aggies some Septem-ber afternoon, maybe lay some wood to ’em and cart home a nice check, take that, too.

We’re starting to daydream a bit, and that’s all in play, but none of it can be realized unless the team wins. No one thinks that’s happening right

away. The Bobcats start on Sept. 1 at Houston, then open their improved home stadium on Sept. 8 against Tex-as Tech. Houston and Tech both were among the “others receiving votes” in the preseason USA Today poll. By the time they reach Nov. 24, when they go to the Alamodome against UTSA, the Bobcats are likely to be 1-9. That’s what rivalry games are for. Even at 1-9, that first game against UTSA will be a kick.

If the Bobcats win two games in 2012, they will max out the most rea-sonable expectations. The grim prog-nosis for 2012 illustrates the bad-case scenario going forward. But it’s still not so bad, is it? You’re in the game. H

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BLUE OCTOBER RETURNS TO THE SQUARE

San Marcos’ favorite hometown post-grunge rock band is set to perform its first show on the square in more than a year.

Blue October got its start playing venues in the river city more than a decade ago, before breakout hits like “Hate Me” introduced the group to an international audi-ence. Fronted by local resident Justin Furstenfeld, the band will bring its mix of angsty vocals and soaring, stadium-sized hooks to the Texas Music Theater on Sept. 29, just two days shy of the bluest month.

Newly married and showing some love for his adopted hometown, Furst-enfeld answered a couple of questions via email:

Do you approach a show in San Marcos any differently than you would in, say, Cleveland?

When we play San Marcos we are very par-ticular about the show. It’s very important to us. It’s where my brother and I live. It’s where I raise my children. It’s where I’ve found that people can be people and egos are left on the outskirts of town. It’s where we first started our band, where we first recorded our major label album in a house on West San Antonio Street.

I remember tearing up the old Kismet, the Cafe on the Square, Lucy’s, the Triple Crown, we even played Palmer’s if you can believe that, but the old Gordo’s is where we would tear the shit out of San Marcos. But the place back then was a musical shithole. The place would be packed and going strong, and next thing you know the sound sys-tem would die on us, letting the fans down over and over.

So we kinda gave up on playing there until my good friend Allen Shy, now the owner of the Texas Music The-ater, whispered over a drink one night that he was going to

gut Gordo’s and finally make a venue in San Marcos that everyone could be proud of, and bands would be able to truly showcase their art and have a good time in an atmo-sphere that would make me completely feel at home.

At first I thought wow what a task, but that lasted half a second knowing that this was Allen, the man I’ve looked up to and who has inspired me with all of his amazing ac-

complishments over the 15 years I’ve known him. And like I thought, he blew me away with the Texas Music Theater.

So out of respect for Allen and all he’s done for me as well as San Marcos, I tend to take my San Mar-cos shows very seriously. At most shows we play 17 songs. At TMT we play close to 30.

All of the people in San Marcos have helped make us who we are. They’ve kept us humble, and for me a lot of them saved my life.

This will be our first show of the two-month “Quiet Mind” tour from East to West Coast.

This show means the most to me because no matter how dark my life has gotten in the past, San Marcos has gotten me through it. My wife and I are proud San Martians, and I will gladly ask anyone to step outside into the alley of TMT if you have a problem with my town. God love it. God love TMT. Most of all, everyone in Blue October wants to thank everyone for years of support. Do you see this becoming an annual gig for you?

The only reason we can still play San Marcos is because of the Texas Music Theater. So as far as annual? Hmmm, how about as long as everyone keeps the TMT going strong. Then you can count on us and many other touring bands playing San Marcos for a long time. I mean, look around: Do you see another venue in town with such class?

“No matter how dark my life has gotten in the past, San Marcos

has gotten me through it.”– JUSTIN FURSTENFELD

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