Raise your hand….

[ElvisLives]

….if you are going to the Annual Meeting in San Marcos next weekend?

Me? Yes! Playing golf Friday morning. Then just hangin’ out with the crowd Friday evening, and Saturday.
For the second year, those of us on the Education Committee have no duties. But, looking forward to connecting with old friends, and, hopefully, making new friends. And, maybe learning something. Always striving to get better.
Maybe I’ll see y’all.

Robert Cameron
Lubbock, Texas

[dammitbobby]

I'll be there, will attempt to play golf as well.

[TxJim]

….if you are going to the Annual Meeting in San Marcos next weekend?

Me? Yes! Playing golf Friday morning. Then just hangin’ out with the crowd Friday evening, and Saturday.
For the second year, those of us on the Education Committee have no duties. But, looking forward to connecting with old friends, and, hopefully, making new friends. And, maybe learning something. Always striving to get better.
Maybe I’ll see y’all.

Robert Cameron
Lubbock, Texas

I'll be there.
You'd better watch out for that guy you're playing golf with.

[ElvisLives]

I'll be there.
You'd better watch out for that guy you're playing golf with.

My son made me buy a new driver. Watch out, NOW!!!!

[blindtxzebra]

I have to admit that I was going to go until I looked at the agenda. This is a full day of a lot of nothing. I have heard Shaw talk already this year covering rule changes, don’t care about an hour long coaches panel, then 2 more speakers one of which I haven’t heard talk before so maybe he would be good. Then we get to one breakout room per position, so many officials work more than one spot in high school. What happened to sessions on BBW, RPS, kicks, etc.

Then to top it off when I looked at the host hotel cost for one night (because I live to far away to drive in Saturday morning and make it on time) it was almost $200. No thanks, I’ll drive to a regional clinic, be done at noon and still come out money ahead.

[TxJim]

I have to admit ...

Yeah, well, hotels everywhere are expensive, so it doesn't matter where the state meeting is held.
It's tax deductible as a business expense anyway.
About 1300 showed up.
The San Marcos Embassy Suites venue was all suites and was in A+ shape with breakfast and lunch included, meeting rooms part of the hotel onsite restaurant, spacious -no cramped or undersized meeting areas. Extra large video screens so everyone could see and hear
Brad Allen's address was great and so were the breakouts.
If I do say so myself, the golf tournament was great, but I was running it with two other guys, but was the one of the best courses for quality we've had in 20 years.
But the best part of this or any State Meeting is meeting new people, reconnecting with others, and building those friendships.
I got to meet ElvisLives for the first time and we played golf together.
Spent what should have been late night sleeping hours as talking and laughing hours with members from other chapters like RGV, DAL and HOU.
Can't really put a meaningful price tag on that IMHO.

[ElvisLives]

Yeah, well, hotels everywhere are expensive, so it doesn't matter where the state meeting is held.
It's tax deductible as a business expense anyway.
About 1300 showed up.
The San Marcos Embassy Suites venue was all suites and was in A+ shape with breakfast and lunch included, meeting rooms part of the hotel onsite restaurant, spacious -no cramped or undersized meeting areas. Extra large video screens so everyone could see and hear
Brad Allen's address was great and so were the breakouts.
If I do say so myself, the golf tournament was great, but I was running it with two other guys, but was the one of the best courses for quality we've had in 20 years.
But the best part of this or any State Meeting is meeting new people, reconnecting with others, and building those friendships.
I got to meet ElvisLives for the first time and we played golf together.
Spent what should have been late night sleeping hours as talking and laughing hours with members from other chapters like RGV, DAL and HOU.
Can't really put a meaningful price tag on that IMHO.

What he said!

Enjoyed meeting TxJim as well.
Yeah, Zooms have their place, but you can't put a price on human interaction. It was great.

 

[blindtxzebra]

Yeah, well, hotels everywhere are expensive, so it doesn't matter where the state meeting is held.
It's tax deductible as a business expense anyway.
About 1300 showed up.
The San Marcos Embassy Suites venue was all suites and was in A+ shape with breakfast and lunch included, meeting rooms part of the hotel onsite restaurant, spacious -no cramped or undersized meeting areas. Extra large video screens so everyone could see and hear
Brad Allen's address was great and so were the breakouts.
If I do say so myself, the golf tournament was great, but I was running it with two other guys, but was the one of the best courses for quality we've had in 20 years.
But the best part of this or any State Meeting is meeting new people, reconnecting with others, and building those friendships.
I got to meet ElvisLives for the first time and we played golf together.
Spent what should have been late night sleeping hours as talking and laughing hours with members from other chapters like RGV, DAL and HOU.
Can't really put a meaningful price tag on that IMHO.

How was Mike Pereira's talk this year? He was really good last year!!

[dammitbobby]

Pereira was unable to attend, someone else filled in (can't recall his name), and he was an excellent motivational speaker.

Only other comments I have, are that I was super disappointed that there was no six-man breakout session at all (along with not a single six-man specific question on the test), and for the massive amount of cash TASO is now getting by making everyone pay for their 'share' of the annual meeting through the price increase, there was zero evidence that any of those funds went into improving the state meeting experience. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was put together very well, and didn't see anything notable to be critical about (minus the now-defunct six-man breakout), but I did expect them to put at least some of their newly found piggy bank funds back into the state meeting. Instead, it looks like those funds will be used for... other things.