AUSTIN, Texas -- The parking attendants at the University of Texas may be the only group indifferent to the growing mythology of Arch Manning .

Nearly 52,000 students attend the state's flagship university, which has a perimeter of four miles around its main campus downtown. There are fewer than 17,000 parking spots to serve them. They're monitored relentlessly.

Manning makes the mile or two drive from his North Campus residence almost daily. Athletes do have parking options, but Manning is occasionally haphazard about where his car ends up. Class, practice and service organization meetings add up. As do the fines.

Whenever Arch's mom, Ellen, gets in his car – right now she believes he's driving an Escalade, but his vehicle of choice changes quite a bit – she sees orange violations in

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