re: Orangebloods article

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It was even more amplified when Ricky Williams had his Heisman season, and then throughout the 2000’s during the Mack Brown era. It seemed like a true college town. Today, the football program is prominent, but lacks the overwhelming support and craze of its city.

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I lived in Austin from 2012-14, you could have taken UT sports completely out of the city and you’d never know it. It’s a thing that’s there that you drive past on I-35. It’s not part of the larger Austin culture at all. A lot of people go to a game a year because it’s the only big sports thing in town. Even that is changing with Austin FC, I went to a game there when I left during Ida and it was packed.

It is nowhere near the beating heart of the community it is in most other SEC cities