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A lot of projects that you tend to hear about ending up significantly over budget are publically funded projects. Gateway project up in cleveland comes to mind. They had to under-estimate the cost in order get the voters to approve it. This stadium was more accurately estimated.
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It would make great negotiating leverage though.-Anheuser Busch rep: "So, who else you got bidding the contract? Coors and Miller, right?"-UA negotiator: "We want a modified exclusive supplier rights contract. We have a local brewery with a product of interest to our program"-Busch rep: "We require exclusive rights to venues"-UA rep: "So says Coors and Miller, but the first one to allow for the local product will get the contract"-Busch rep: "Tell ya what. We'll throw in an extra mill over the contract period for all rights excluding even the local brewery"-UA rep: "Uhh, well take your offer under advisement"Ching!
I would settle for it being a selectable choice at the stadium. But somehow I doubt that Thirsty Dog has the millions to buy the "rights" to be the stadium beverage. We will end up with Coors or BudweiserHopefully it ends up the official beer of InfoCision Stadium!
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http://www.ohio.com/news/12343741.html
Sounds interesting. :up:RooBrew Lager is the first style in what they hope is an eventual stable of six beers. Thirsty Dog owner John Najeway described it as a traditional German-style lager with a golden color and 6 percent alcohol.Other examples in that style include Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, Gordon Biersch Golden Expert, Hofbrau Lager and Buzzards Bay Olde Buzzard Lager
Thats a shame. Something with zippy, or better yet, the Roo, on the label would have garnered more purchases from me.RooBrew isn't affiliated with the university...
In some ways, I am dissappointed, but in others, it doesn't suprise me... because "roo" has been used in other places and creations, so I'm not sure you could try to take full control of it anyway... and the laize faire attitude is rather refreshing compared to typical corporate power grab over every minor detail.The company logo features an outline of a kangaroo, and blue and gold — the school colors.The university, though, isn't opposed to RooBrew.''The university has not trademarked the word Roo,'' UA spokesman Ken Torisky said. ''And it has no objection to anyone using the word in regards to a product.'' -
LOL, you should update the flush players on all the campus computers you find, and reset their home pages to capitalonebowl.com
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zippy ownz
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Gad, I remember drinkin at the sun. The one year I lived just up spicer and drank there all the time.Still, as fond as I am of the memories, to be honest, it's just a hole bar. Cripes, you can setup a shop like that anywhere. What's the big freakin deal? Are they one of the ones being a hardon about this?
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I know this is an apples & oranges comparison, but just about everyone I know who spent money to advertise their new websites.... in the end the websites ended up failing. On the other hand, I have never spend a dime to advertise a website, and have had significant successes. The point is the product. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you spend on marketing, the message is lost, along with the money you spent, if you don't get the desired effect.Some companies spend a lot more money on figuring out market for audience and demographics than they do on the ads themselves. Simply plastering the papers and the airwaves with your message is a waste if 99% of those people wouldn't come to your game if you put a gun to their head. Why drop $50,000 on radio ads all across the dial when the net result if 27 more tickets got sold???while in marketing all you need is some money and a few creative minds. It takes money to make money, and UA would seem to have money to spend. We can't just slap up a few billboards or paint the side of a bus, though. There needs to be advertisements in radio and TV, and they have to be much better quality than they currently are. -
Yeah, it seemed to me that Otto was losing all of his early battles until he got so far behind that everyone was voting for him to knock down his opponents.
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bias clouds reality
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I didn't come into this thread to start taking on everyone and all the points they have been making. That would get exhausting, particularly after rebuttals.I am just going to state the same opinion I had before this season and still have today:Brookhart is a very good coach. If he doesn't stay here, I believe this fact will be bore out somewhere years down the road.I am going to state something I have been saying since the Army game beginning this season:Our offensive play calling is horrid.If we need a personel change in the staff, it is to get a genuine offensive mind that will scheme game plans, not just based on our player talents, and not just based on opponent weaknesses, but that would work on breaking down defenses regardless who playing and training our players in a system that will exploit the other 11 players on the field.It's not hard to defend against the zips offense this year. Focus on the run (and dump offs) and double team Arthur or zone for Arthur's routes.
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:rolleyes:It's why I don't get hot and bothered over the capital one mascot thinger. It's fun, I suppose, but if you gotta hang your hat on a mascot, or on being ancient history "craddle of coaches", it's just not anything to get too rowdy about.
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I don't think that the 'problem' is either QB or JD.I think the problem is a combination of three things1) one dominating WR, the rest are not respect nor thrown to 2) offensive play calling 3) inconsistent run blockingNow, does that mean I think our quarterbacks are above reproach, or JD above criticism? No.
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great point.... so, his manliness score goes up. :rolleyes:Anyway, I don't think he saw the fair catch call, and I really don't see a huge problem for not making a quick last second decision to lay off a guy who looks like he's taking a knee. The dance/celebration was probably just something coverage guys would do any time they think they tackled a guy for no yardage (or a loss). So, I can understand Brookhart's passion for his players, but I don't agree that there should have been an ejection.The only thing I would have a problem with is if someone shows me evidence that he was dancing after the flag was thrown, and more importantly, still celebrating after he realized a fair catch was called and he could have injured a guy.A bigger smoking gun that would change my opinion would be a photo of Fitzgerald with his eyes on our receiver calling a fair catch.what i meant was his knee went down right after he caught the ball anyways;so it was a stupid play on ou players part. -
Actually, I heard the night before the trade broke that they were shopping both guys and Charlie was getting the best offers.But that's okay. You think what you want to. Nothing I say will change what you want to believe. Charlie isn't playing right now for the browns, and nothing I can do will change that either.1) Charlie is not here anymore BECAUSE the coaching staff deemed Anderson the better QB. Why else would they trade Frye away? -
Not really. Not until Frye plays again. ALMOST everyone who was in Frye's corner for the last few years kept saying OVER and OVER, all we need is a semi-decent offensive line. DA has one. Isn't it amazing.BTW, the browns haven't had a consistently decent offensive line in 20 years. The pass protection is MUCH better this year than recent years, but the run blocking still sorta stinks (but the run blocking isn't the issue when it comes to comparing DA to Frye)I actually half-way considered posting a "kudos" thread for DA for his performance this year on this forum because of the DA/Frye debates that happened earlier, but I refrained from doing so because it's inevitable that the Frye bashers would come out and say "see I told you so". I will concede that there is no way to reasonably argue that Frye could have done definitively as well as DA has done this year, BUT, please go dig up the old threads. You will find that we did indeed plead that no QB would have done well with the offensive lines the Browns had over the last few years. Now that the browns QB has pass protection, how can an equal comparison be made?I will willingly concede I was wrong when/if Charlie Frye starts for another team and performs badly.I think its a legitimate subject to bring up after all of the previous Frye vs. DA discussion. -
Changing coaches every 3-4 years is suicide. JD deserves 5-6 years to see what he can do. Not 9 years like Dan Hipsher or Lee Owens or Gerry Faust...but by 5-6 years you should have an accurate read on the guy's ability.After 3.6 years, I see sufficient hope that JD will be fine.
That's how I Feel. Fire him now, and in 3 or 4 years you'll see him leading some program to a bowl ask yourself why we cut him loose, particularly if our new coach isn't working out yet.
I've been saying that since the Army game. The number of screens has gone down since then, but the failure is in a similar vane. Ask any defensive coordinator how much bad screens scare them. Not very much. If an offense fails to evenly distribute the ball in every zone of the field (don't just think vertical or horizontal. don't just think run vs.pass) then a defense can appropriately anticipate inside their gameplan, or atleast not have to try to think too much on the field.Offensive coordinator sucks swamp water! How many screen do we throw in game -
Better yet, I think they need to be voted out as soon as possible. We have two more years of Stickland. I'm not even sure if Fingerhut currently holds an elected office or is just a washed up hack who has been appointed to a post... but I am going to look into it. These guys need to be removed before they can do some serious damageI will never vote for anyone who is involved in such a merger, might i add. -
what is worse is the fact that the house was probably not even worth 77 Grand in the first place. Most of them are not worth that much. He probably pressured the previous property owner and climbed the ladder until he got it with the express purpose of holding against the UA land aquisition for a profit. I mean, you could say that because he probably paid more than it was probably worth means he didn't turn as much of a profit, but the problem is that it stands as evidence that he had conscious intent.
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Good to have a cheatsheet.One comment, about the above quoted, even though UCLA may have less enrollment than UM, I wonder if in the playoffs whether the size of the media market will make a difference. It's just a thought, but if UCLA Bruin gets some stories in their media, he could be dangrousJOE BRUIN (4-3) over Goldy Gopher (3-4)Joe Bruin actually has a better record BUT UCLA is a smaller school (38000 vs. 50400 at UM; UM is #4 in the country in enrollment) and it may be time to start shaping who we want to go up against in the playoffs. Send Goldy into the tank so he misses the Top 6 cutoff? -
like everyone else I LOVE a winner.unlike half of everyone else (or more) I do not quit on my team. If you believed in this team when the season started and you're calling for heads now, then you are a quitter. Go root for the usual suspects among the 'safe bets' like all the other front runners (like OSU) and leave the loyalty to the real fans. Some people would be happy if we constructed a bunch of cyborgs with beyond-human abilities to win games. They wouldn't care as long as our logo is on the helmet and the score is in the win column.Me, personally, even though I haven't met these people (players & coaches).... I can't just throw them out like the trash because I don't like the news.All I am saying is, please, lets just be fans until the season is over, and then we can talk about this extra crap.
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You guys probably thought I was some kindof reactionary alarmist or something, but I've been trying to tell you this since the issue first came up last year some time. This is nothing but politics. If there is one thing I know about politicians (actually two things) is that their only goals are to find ways to spend money that make them feel good or increase their power, and to find ways to waste money that make them look good in the eyes of voters. The ONE thing a politician cannot do is "nothing". They cannot leave well-enough alone. Even if government ever got tweak to 100% perfection, you would have a bunch of politicians running around like busy bees pretending something is broke because they are worried sick about how they are going to impress some voters if they aren't changing something.Cleveland State "university" is a piece of crap. I HATE politicians ... ESPECIALLY the Fingerhut variety. INCREDIBLE urge to hurl right now. Screw you Fingerhut!
That's just the point. It doesn't make any sense at all.And the whole "one big first class university" is complete sales pitch. It has nothing to do with anything!I would just love, for once, for someone to ask one of these jerks exactly how "merging" two universities that are over 20 miles apart is going to do anything different for those institutions or the students who attend them except to pool the statistics to make the university sound "bigger". Whoopidee Freakin' Dooo! You didn't move any buildings closer to each other.You didn't make things more accessable to students.You didn't make it more affordable.and most importantly, nothing changed to make it "first class" or "powerhouse" or whatever other bullshit you are selling.Politicians take resources and divvy them up according to politics, not by logic or by common sense, nor by any other plan except to either give themselves more power or to win more votes. The Cleveland area has more votes than Akron or Can't.CSU has the most to gain from a merger!... and UA has the most to take (in comparisson to Can't or some other school)So there you have it. There's your answer. The cannibalization of success.Why is all the talk about UA and CSU? Why not Can't State and CSU or even CSU and YSU? A YSU and CSU merger would equal a University about the size of UA. If you really want to have UNO, merge all 4 Universities into one.I don't see why any merging has to take place at all. The big problem is the state doesn't give enough money to the Universities in Ohio now. Merging universities into larger universities won't save much, except for some administrative jobs. Also it makes no sense to me to merge any two Universities that are 30 or more miles apart. From that perspective maybe a UA-Can't State or BGSU-UT merger might make some -very little IMHO - sense. I am against any merging though, eliminating CSU makes the most sense to me. Those buildings can be used by Tri-C and any students who need to complete their degrees can go to UA, Can't State, or YSU. -
I dunno why ppl 'round here got it stuck in their heads we're gonna hop outa the MAC anytime soon.I guess the reason for it is because the MAC sux or gets no respect, and thus hurts us?I say, you have the wrong instincts. Well, I say, you got the wrong reflex.If you are surrounded by mediocre competition, then it should be your instinct to DOMINATE IT!Humiliate them either into pure submission or to rise up and be more competitive.We don't run the tables on this conference. Until we do, we don't deserve to criticize it. We are a part of the problem.
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It's probably one of fingerhut's minions. It is an insight to the kind of political thinking we are dealing with.
Read the comment from Lincoln Park Sam. What a jackass! Someone had a nice comment back to him though.Proenza defends UA against takeover. http://www.ohio.com/editorial/douglas/1069...age=all&c=y
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