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December 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Valero's Derrick Fox joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Darry Fox from the Blaro aliable ball exactly, director joins us,
So you'll wait all year and now the month of
that matters is finally here for you guys. I know
you're excited about another fabulous matchup to see if they
can duplicate what has usually happened in this ball game.
Congrats on getting these two teams and take us through

(00:24):
yesterday and getting these two teams announced.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh yeah, thanks Andy, it was great and appreciate. We're
excited with this year's Bleurro Almable matchup SC, who's not
been in the game before to take on TCU, who's
obviously done very well. I'm undefeated here and had a
few highly entertaining games in the past, So yeah, we're
looking forward to an exciting game on December thirtieth and
this year's edition of the Valera Almable and very fortunate

(00:48):
to have two excited fan bases to be here, I said,
a new team in SC, so I'll give a chance
to have those fans go back from where they came
from and speak highly of San Antonio and what a
great city it is to visit.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Take us through yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're all watching the CFP as it's being done in
the bracket around eleven thirty on ESPN. And once it's announced, Dan,
do you are you waiting by the phone to determine
what's going to happen? How does that process work for
you to actually tell whoever needs to be told, here's
who we want?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah? Absolutely, great, great question. So we, like everybody else
we're watching TV, we don't get any advanced notice of
the poll. So once the top fifteen or top fourteen
it gets unveiled, we know who's in from that perspective
as far as the cfp's concerned, and therefore we know
who's out and thus available to us. You can go
all the way up till twelve o'clock and see the
rankings from that perspective and use that in your data

(01:43):
if you will. And then by twelve thirty we're actually
on the clock from the conferences to say, okay, vle
abul get the first pick. Who do you select now?
To get to that point in time, we spent the
entire week up to it talking to kind of all
the teams in the mix, getting a sense of, you know,
what they think, as far as you know, their excitement
to come here, the possible matchups, any issues they may

(02:06):
have relative to coaching changes or player opt outs or
all those type of things. So we can get as
much data as we can to figure out what we
think is going to be the best possible game for
us in this year's edition into the blare amable. So
kind of when you do it, then you bring all
the information together best do you have it on selection
Sunday and you bring the committee together make that final determination.

(02:27):
So by twelve thirty when we get the call, we're
ready to make our selections.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
How involved is ESPN and the Bowl Championship Series the
BAWL Week as they call it on ESPN? Do they
suggest out games? Do you have to follow what they say?
I know they're a big part of the production of
all of this.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
ESPN is certainly a big partner in all of this
from that perspective, But we have the choice to make
these selections. We certainly ask them from their perspective, Hey,
get us some idea of ratings. You know, which teams
you know rate better than others are just generally about
the same, or kind of what do they look like
from a TV perspective? You know, we can certainly see
in the home attendance of the stadiums and the teams

(03:07):
that are in our mix, and get some data from
that perspective. We can look back at ticket sales of
teams have been here in the past, so we've got
a pretty good idea of all the metrics, but obviously
put together the idea of a TV perspective. We get
their intel relative to ratings, but other than that, it's
just kind of keeping them informed and trying to get
some sense of direction to on them as to what
might be happening above us.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I think you have a great date in that people
can still stay home for Christmas, and you know, the
teams may be here before Christmas, but the players and
their fans are the players' families, the boosters, the fans.
They can come Saturday, Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday morning and
still have a good time in San Antonio and be
a part of the game. And I would imagine that

(03:48):
a lot of people are like, this is a perfect
date for us, because after the thirtieth, you got New
Year's even New Year's and the second falls on a Friday,
so nobody's going back.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
To work till the fifth. This is perfect for you guys,
isn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, is great because to your point, you know, the
teams can stay home through Christmas and then they come
in here on the twenty sixth, we get a normal,
you know, full bowl week planned and then to your point,
people can stay obvious they're gonna stay through the thirtieth regardless.
But hey, we've got a great New Year's Eve celebration
here in San Antonio. Why not stick around to that
extend your trip an additional day. So it really does

(04:19):
map out great. I mean last year was a Saturday night,
so you can't beat that. But when you look at
the midweek time frame that we have between Christmas and
New Year's it's fantastic. And to be primetime again. We're
ecstatic with that.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Derek Fox showing us from the Vlairo Allimbo Bowl. So
tell me about USC and TCU. What can we expect
from this matchup. I've seen a couple of USC highlights
here and there, not much on TCU, So give us
a preview of what we're going to get game wise.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, not to be surprising from that perspective, with coach
Riley and coach Dikes to high offensive performing teams. From
that perspective, Two dynamic quarterbacks with Jade Mayava and Hoover
and also you know, good receiving corpse. So I think
that we're planning on a very entertaining game, and obviously

(05:08):
it seems to be we're turning in the direction of
having everybody playing, but don't know definitively at this point
in time because they're just wrapping up all those meetings
and planning for the bull trip. And obviously kids will
be entering the portal, but sometimes that's going to be
after the bowl game, so if teams can come in
and play and then enter the portal afterwards, So you know,
we like the teams that are coming in. They're excited

(05:28):
about being here. Listening to both coaches on the press
conference the other day, they have a great relationship with
one another. So it looks like a friendly rivalry and
it should transcend and put forward a good game.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
On December thirtieth, well, VI think with Derek Fox from
the Vlair Allen Ball Bowl USC and TCU on Tuesday
the thirtieth.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I've always talked about how this the Bowl Championship Series
really works and the Bowl the Bowl Bowl season. Basically,
it's great television because everybody's usually off and watching it.
You guys have typically had fantastic ratings being kind of
the last game of the night on those nights and

(06:07):
the charitable aspect, and I know Valero is very that's
very important to Valero as your title sponsor to be
able to give back to the community and give the
scholarship money that you do.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, Valero's definitely fueled our growth, no doubt about that.
They've been a sponsor since day one, and obviously our
title sponsors in two thousand and seven. But we look
at the scholarship program. We're going to give away over
one point two five million dollars this year in two
different formats. One was a college scholarship program, so we
did a total of five hundred and ten thousand dollars
to I believe eighty students at the six local universities.

(06:40):
And then we'll be giving away one hundred and two
scholarships seventy five hundred dollars each to local high school
students this upcoming year. And we'll have a scholarship launching
a sponsored by AHV here in another week and a
half and then the students will be recognized on the field.
So a lot of fun so one point two five
million plus and I think our total about thirteen point

(07:01):
two million total now including this year. So definitely giving
back to the local community and further in education, that's
for sure.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, So give us the details on how people
go tickets, game time, pregame packages, tailgating, the whole nine yards.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, the best thing to do is go to our
website almable dot com and you can take a look
there and get your tickets and any kind of event
tickets you want, as well as parking. Anything that's available
is on our website. So what's the easiest thing to do.
And then if you have any questions still for you
to call us two two six six five all.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Right, So it's TCU and USC.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
And then after this game's over, you get what ten
days off before you got to start planning for next year.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hey, you know when you want to work one day year,
you got to pay a long recovery time.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
We will that's the big best number.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's like the text is open to everybody thinks you
work for a week and then but you don't exactly.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Now, Really what we'll do is we've you know, worked
hard all year long. You'll have a couple days after
the teams get back out of town, you collect everything
the next day, get it back in the office, close
up for a couple of days, and then you're right
back at it in January with recaps and thanking everybody,
and then starting the process for the twenty twenty six version.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know this is a ways off, and we're probably
six seven years away.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
From any redoing of.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
The dome or whatever things are going to happen with
Project Marvel, but I would think that the success that
the Valero alamobiles had, the success that the Final four
has had, if we can get the stadium right at
some point in terms of capacity and infrastructure, the cfp's
got to come here at some point.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well. We've certainly let them know, and we'll have a
meeting with them shortly after their January twenty third meeting
when they talk about the structure and format going forward.
But they are certainly aware of Project Marvel and the
plan to renovate the dome, and so we've said, hey,
we'd like to have a meeting with you just to
bring you up to speed, but also more importantly tell
us what's important to you if we're going to go
ahead and do these renovations which we need, and they've

(08:56):
really told us, hey, if the dome is competitive, we
definitely have an interest in coming. So let's get this
done right. Let's get this done in a proper way
at the right level that will secure these events for
the future, and then you get another great thirty year
run of events that can come to San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
When you started thirty some years ago, do you think
you'd be doing it thirty years later?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Sure? It was great. Now I think back, I go,
let's see there was the dome wasn't completed, there were
no tickets sold. But yeah, seriously, it's a great, great
Bowl game, a great group of people who've been involved
here for many, many years, and people really roll out
the red carpet, so trying to be coming to a
annual tradition during the holiday season, regardless of the teams
that are mixed. Obviously we've got great matchups, but people

(09:40):
support us year in and year out, and that's what
makes it so special.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Great Derek, have a great ball series and all the
best of luck, and I'm sure you'll have crind a
great champion and give a lot of money away to
the serving kids going to college next year.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
We look forward to it and thank you for sport. Andy.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
All right, that's Derek Fox Valero, Alamo Ball executive director,
USC and see you coming up.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Who's winning that game? Usc UC TC's got too many
opt outs?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I hate the fact that they're these opt outs.
I understand that you're doing it because you're going to
another school. I understand it because you're thinking you're going
to go to the pros. But it's football. I mean,
you could have gotten hurt the last game that you
played at the regular season. You could have gotten hurt
in October. This is what you do. And I just

(10:27):
I don't understand this era's lot lack of love for
the game. I saw this video of Alan Iverson, and
Alan Iverson was like load management. You mean I have
to miss games because I'm tired? No, he goes. Nobody
would have ever told me that I had to miss
a game because I needed a rest after playing four

(10:49):
games in five days.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
This is what I do.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
And I just think that there's so many athletes out
there that do all this work, prepare, get their bodies
to write way, eat the right way, do all the
right things to be ready for a football game, and
they go, yeah, I don't want to play.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
How can you not? I mean, at some point in
your life a.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Sand lot football game where you played Tu Beelow was
going to be the highlight of your day. And now
you can't get excited about playing a game because, oh,
I might get hurt in the NFL won't take me.
I understand the business decision involved, but the way Martin
medicine is, almost every injury is rehab pretty quickly, and

(11:33):
there's not that many that are going to be devastating
that their career ending.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I just don't understand where you lose your love for
the game.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
All right, Jeff Trailer in fifteen minutes a DECI Matsyama
won yesterday and beat Scotty.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
How about that? And we'll talk about a bunch of
stuff next. It's five point forty five on the ticket.
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