Upon Further Review
Each time I finish a public speaking appearance I get the same review from my co-workers: “Decent job, but you need to talk slower and enunciate better.” Luckily, none of them heard me last week. I...
View ArticlePlanting a Seed
Yesterday morning the Valero Alamo Bowl emailed out an offer to our 40,000 person database with the headline, “Special Deal to See 5-0 UTSA.” We did it to help UTSA promote a discount offer on club...
View ArticleMaking History
Here are the Valero Alamo Bowl highlights you’ll see most frequently in the bowl’s marketing materials: - The Valero Alamo Bowl has produced three of the Top 5 Most-Watched Non-BCS Bowl Games in ESPN...
View ArticleGiving San Antonio Wings
I set up my LinkedIn page three years ago and inserted a picture taken during one of my “chunky” phases. Much to my wife’s chagrin my OCD wouldn’t allow me to update it until I overhauled my whole...
View ArticleTop 10
I’m not trolling for page views by pushing out a Top 10 list for self-improvement. Instead I titled this post “Top 10″ amazed that with less than two weeks until Selection Sunday there are still 10...
View ArticleSelection Sunday
With only five days until all 35 bowl match-ups are announced on college football’s version of Selection Sunday, we have only been unable to whittle our list of possible teams to under 10. The...
View ArticleFree Tickets
The staff of the Valero Alamo Bowl tries to stay as engaged in social media as much as possible for a lot of reasons especially the two way communication and engagement it allows. Since you can only...
View ArticleTake The San Antonio Challenge
Stop me if you read this before: another reality show is under fire for stretching the boundaries of what is real. To quote “Storage Wars” star Dave Hester, “Yup!” So before I’m exposed as a fraud,...
View ArticleSo How Did It Go?
When someone who attended the Valero Alamo Bowl asks me how the game went, I know what they really want is behind-the-scenes scoop. This year my response is pretty boring: “Hard to complain about...
View ArticleGoing Viral
Next month, the Valero Alamo Bowl will start reviewing resumes for our internship program. During the final interview process, we always ask the candidates to review facets of our business to see how...
View ArticleWorst Video I Have Ever Seen
My most viewed blogs are the ones where I poke fun at myself. Touchdown dances don’t play well on social media, so we treaded lightly when announcing the Valero Alamo Bowl’s move up in the bowl world....
View ArticleReverse Punked
Over the last 14 years, the Valero Alamo Bowl has selected 356 graduating high school seniors to split over $1 million in scholarships to the university of their choice courtesy of the bowl. Each...
View ArticleThis Could Be The Year
Call me Don Quixote. Like the idealist lead character in Miguel de Cervantes’s early 17th century novel, I start every college football season with a seemingly impossible battle. In my case there are...
View ArticleThe Final Countdown
What if I told you this Saturday is the last weekend without college football until January? That exciting news means the cool 89 degree breezes of Fall will soon be blowing into San Antonio....
View ArticleParting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
While I fancy myself an early adopter of technology, I’m embarrassed to admit I still use a Time Text calendar to enter in my day-by-day activities. I received it as part of a time management seminar I...
View ArticleGreat Coach, Better Person
It’s often said the greatest improvement for a college team is between Week #1 and Week #2. Oregon State’s defense hopes that is the case after wasting a 37-43 and 422 yard passing performance from...
View ArticleKnow Your Audience
Each year ESPN is kind enough to send one of their college football analysts to headline our Rudy’s Bar-B-Q Pigskin Preview Luncheon. This year it was Brock Huard, the University of Washington’s...
View ArticleBeing A Yes Man
I always preach to our interns the value of saying “yes” when offers to do things outside of the office come their way. Whether it’s a client dinner, volunteer opportunity or last minute event invite,...
View ArticleThe Biggest Event In San Antonio History
Completing a comprehensive 100+ page bid for San Antonio to serve as the host for the 2017 College Football Championship Game in less than six weeks was a daunting task. However, the Valero Alamo Bowl...
View ArticleCan You Go The Distance?
It seems like every week of the college season there is at least one game-changing kickoff return for a touchdown. While we’ve had a 91 yard interception and a 75 yard punt return for a touchdown, the...
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