He posts occasionally on the shag, and we traded texts just yesterday since he was asking about our plans for the tailgate party.
Sadly, it's done. The state of Texas is building a lot of new parking garages where all the surface lots used to be, so the tailgating space in state lots will be about 25% of what it was previously. All of the tailgating groups with annual reserved spaces had to enter a lottery for the few spots remaining, and we didn't win.
We were thinking about killing it anyway, but this pretty much put the nail in the coffin.