Comments on: Police ‘flabbergasted’ at well-behaved football fans

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:49:32 +0000

The police have about 90 officers. Like most departments half are administration investigators and support roles. So you have 45 officers for patrol. SMPD is on 12 hour shifts so divide that by 6 shifts to cover every day and you have 7 to 8 officers working on the patrol side depending in hour overlap times you could have 14 to 16 depending on the hour of the day. Not enough I but the OT bill was high.

By: Texas State Alum

Texas State Alum — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:45:39 +0000

I knew ya’ll would have something to say. lol

I’m glad Texas State still has it’s reputation as a party school and not a football school.

By: SMsince95

SMsince95 — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:53:21 +0000

TxState is one of the more littered campuses I’ve ever walked on. But then, the city also has a lot of litter. We seem to be aesthetically challenged.

By: Ted Marchut

Ted Marchut — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:33:40 +0000

Also, it was actually worse in person, than that picture makes it look, if you can believe that.

Definitely something the university needs to work on.

By: Ted Marchut

Ted Marchut — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:32:43 +0000

I heard there were not enough trash cans, or that trash wasn’t picked up enough. Interestingly, some other tailgate areas with even fewer trash cans, and no trash pickup that I saw, were comparatively spotless afterward.

I don’t know the answer, but I do know that all of the spots in that picture were “reserved” and paid for, so someone knows who left that stuff behind. People ought to be able to clean up their areas. We did.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:17:52 +0000

Why wont the police say home many they have working at any one time? Sounds like someone is trying to hide something to me.

By: Reyna

Reyna — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:03:53 +0000

Well behaved, indeed. Check out this pic, just one example of the acres of trash left behind. I am sure there were a lot of sober adults leaving all of this trash behind and getting out on the roads of San Marcos. Poor planning? Not enough trash receptacles? Lazy, trashy out-of-towners? You decide.

By: Reyna

Reyna — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:25:44 +0000

The 30,000 may have been well behaved in a legal sense, but they completely trashed the place. And by that, I mean there wass more trash per square foot from the stadium to the coliseum to the river by city park than any of us who have lived here for 20 years have EVER SEEN. So much TRASH that still wasn’t being picked up yesterday afternoon. Who is taking care of THAT??? There was good cause to have law enforcement prepped and ready for the crowd that nearly doubled our population but who is responsible for cleaning up the mess afterward? The City of San Marcos? Or TX State? It sure wasn’t the idiots who trashed the place.

By: Ted Marchut

Ted Marchut — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:33:48 +0000

TXST

By: Winchester

Winchester — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:37:05 +0000

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the opportunity to interact with a substantial number of TSU students. I found them to a one, honest, civil and courteous. Gives me hope for the future.

By: SMsince95

SMsince95 — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:23:32 +0000

Who still says “flabbergasted”?

By: Texas State Alum

Texas State Alum — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:53:01 +0000

Wheres SMSince95 comment on this one?