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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Biggly.
It's not something that can't be fixed by the influx of tax dollars over a long enough period of time. But it's gonna be a 5-10 year process with some fairly nasty growing pains along the way.
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As I think about it, San Antonio might actually be a nice fit. Or something where they try to do a bit of both (SA and Austin).
Could you plop a stadium in New Braunfels and have enough space to make it work out there while siphoning traffic from both Austin and San Antonio without blasting their respective infrastructures? And by adding another hour or so in distance away from Houston/Dallas while pushing into south texas where they're kinda different creatures (definitely not as likely to be Dallas fans) might you be able to sate Jerrah a little more?
I'd see a team in/near San Antonio being a bit more likely than Austin. You'll still get the benefit of the population growth in Austin but you'll do it in a way that's less intrusive and maybe more likely to actually help the league grow rather than just shuffle some deck chairs. Austin's growth just isn't organic at all. That's all transplants who probably already have teams (or don't care about football; they ain't from Texas afterall - it presumably wasn't a religion where they came from). San Antonio's growth has been more natural and when you get down to south Texas you're in real live native Texan territory.