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LOL@making$$$coveringOSUIs there any reason a university can't own the ABJ?It's in bidding the bidding process.*hints*If it was under 500k, I'd convince my boss to buy it.

WTF does Can't have to do with this?

I wonder what Bob Knight would have done to him?

Oh shit, now we are ripping manhood...So, ball away to prove you are man right, otherwise, what? You are overcompensating?Amature psychologists. LOL

If you are going to have significant residence hall presence, then aesthetic quality of character is almost a requirement. You don't put in new residence halls in or near a stark structure of purely functional design. Aside from that, I would assume that it would have, after seeing how attention was paid to the visual impact and "tying together" the project was done the old corner of union/carroll.Adding residence halls may have been a need, due to displacing existing residence halls, but since the structure wont be functioning in relative isolation (like the rubber bowl was), and because your budget for additional structure is already there, why not avoid purely functional design? Speaking of Camden yards, imagine residence halls towering 5 floors above the stands at one endzone? I know I'd pay an extra $100 a semester to have a dorm with a window on the field. LOL.Imagine a prominent clock tower at one corner of the stadium....Imagine crosswalks to and from the residence halls, stadium entrances, and nearby vias to campus having a sultry and curvatious design amidst the green space....Imagine the face of buildings on the opposite endzone including restaurants with terrace style seating and accessability (for ticket holders) from both the street and the stadium, as well as a team shop, and various leasable space fronting exchange (also with architectural character).You're not just building a stadium. Your building something whose whole is greater than the sum of it's constituent parts. Something with unquantifiable value in how it adds atmosphere, character, and appeal to the University and campus, as well as serving many functions.

I thought they were the same thing.

A couple of things.You'd want to enclose your concourses for ours. They can get away with them being open in FLA.Also, why does the seating seem to be on such a flat slope? All I can say is, don't buy season tickets behind a tall person, or someone with a large fro.

HAha! The funniest part of those photos is the captions (psychological stages of coping with a loss). You are right about the "feminization of the American Male" thing. We are a dying breed, and to those on the other side of the perspective, we probably look the same (ridiculing the crybaby mama's boys) as old school men in the 50's looked when they beat their wives and terrorized their children. Even if we aren't that bad, and are trying to cling to the positive aspects of masuclinity, you will still be scorned by "the Castrati" (imasculated men) as evil and bullyish.BTW, I cried when I got a rejection letter from my first-choice university (In retrospect, I'm happy). No one is saying that you can't have tears. But there is a huge different between having moist eyes as your head to the lockerroom, and throwing an emotional ty-raid (sp) on the court as if guided by the hand of shakespeare immortalizing a juliette's final moments in a sonnet.

It's true, the Buchtelite "owns" it, but I believe intellectual property doesn't work exactly like private property or capital. If the author requests credit, they have that right. The paper has the right to use it as they see fit (if the author was in the employ of or under contract to the paper), but that doesn't mean they have the right not to credit the author unless the author agrees to it.If I work 2 years for a software company writing code, all I get is my paycheck and credit (unless I release them of that obligation) for my contribution. I am not entitled to any cut of the profit, any say in what happens with that code, or virtually any other future decision on that code. (a legal exception that I have heard of is if one individual's contribution is 50% or more than the totality of the project. Then they can fight for legal ownership privaledges). Regardless, even though the software company puts their name all over the packaging, I still have the right to demand credit for my part.

Concepts of Intellectual property trump journalistic tenets.

I remember growing up, there were only a few recognizable bowl games, most played on New years day, and when you watched them, you knew that you were watching elites. There was no confusion about what teams may have done to get there.

I'll say it again, I'm a UA fan first and foremost.But all this anti-OSU stuff makes us look like we got penis envy. Can we please get the chip off our shoulder. We rarely, if ever conpete with them for recruits. I don't see the reason for the hate.We may compete (and lose) for media time, but that's not going to change unless Ohio State starts bombing hardcore in all of their athletics, which just isn't going to happen, and this is a problem with the local media, not with OSU.

Yeah. I love all the improvements (and the planned ones too) but on the same token, IT PISSES ME OFF! I didn't have this stuff when I was there!I want a refund, lol, or I want to be able to go back for reduced cost.I remember lifting weights behind the bleachers in the NAT. The iron was sweaty and rusty from the humidity (and if you walked out the south door, you had a look at a nice, shiney, spacious 'varsity weight room'.)Gardner kinda sucked before, atleast comparitively.I even remember coming to campus when I was younger and there was a street (with traffic on in, LOL) running between Kolbe/Beirce all the way down Auburn. Everything was a gray-brown, dirty looking, cubic urban landscape. Comparitively, now it's a little green eden. hehe. The new student rec center pisses me off the most. I want in for free.

putting it at the NE corner of exchange and brown makes a LOT of sense. In fact, the most sense of all locations. I just ruled it out because I didn't think they would try to raze those residence halls. But WTH, a stadium is much bigger than residence halls (which can be rebuilt elsewhere anyway). It puts the new stadium ajacent to Jackson field and the practice facility. Couldn't be more logical if you tried.Traffic can come 77/76 north up Brown, from Rt.8 (both dirs) west along Carroll, or from Rt.8 (southbound) west along exchange, and even some traffic from Rt.59 east from downtown.Parking could be an issue if we are talking about a 25k+ stadium filled to capacity. But the campus needs more parking too, so, solve both problems.BTW, I always thought those 'residence halls' were privately owned. That was another reason I didn't think the university would pay to aquire them. My bad.

The sinister roo in the Fear the Roo logo was provided by the same company that provided the new logo. As I understand it, this was the look that appealed to the athletic department, but others in the University (outside athletics) wouldn't buy into it. The "sinister" roo sat on ice for a couple years until the Fear the Roo campaign allowed the Athletic Marketing group to "sneak" it in.Where's my beer? I'm good for it ... but I want time and evidence (or lack of it) that it wasn't a student who suggested it first.

Seriously, this post is right on! I didn't know that we outsourced that! Even if the logo was outsourced, I'll bet a case of beer it was a student who came up with the "fear the roo" thing. Probably spelt it "Phear teh Roo" at the time too. LOL.But really, if you want marketing that appeals to student agegroups and sports fans, college students can do it better than a bunch of pencil necks at a marketing firm.

It would be a home run for the school if it did more for the school than just increase interest (and success) in their football program, but also offered more to the campus and community, such as:Built in classrooms and other usable spaceAttached parking garage or adjacent parking areas that not only provided parking for games (usually saturdays) but also supplimented the Universities student parking during the week.If fronting a main street (like exchange) offered community entertainment, retail and/or other leasable frontage accessable both to the street and from the stadium.Was aestetchically/architecturally pleasinghelping to revitalize the area and encouraging growthhaving the effect of awe-ing visitors (and visiting teams)helping to cast the university in a good light and inspiring regional interest.[*]Sufficient amnenities to provide for a quality experience. (don't break the bank building a cadillac, but don't build a pinto either) Don't squeeze people together with hunched shoulders on rock hard seats).Provide adequate crowd movementProvide adequate restroom facilitiesConsider civil traffic conditions Outback would be perfect to court. Not only because of the theme, but they have leased/contracted space in arenas before.

http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p=2&c=508...2%2f508602.htmlI saw a picture of him in the paper last year with an Akron athletic shirt on (the A with the roo head).[edit: found another article]Ack! Same old story!!! http://ohiostate.scout.com/2/393222.html

Donkey? haha We have various logos for apparel now. I don't see why the A-roohead is so bad, but then like you said, maybe we are biased.I think the letter Z is a very very good letter.It is mysterious, because it is not commonly used.Aestetically, it can be both sweeping and sensual, but it can be powerful and sharp (like blades).I also noticed that the Z in zips has some splays near the points, and it reminds me of a thunderbolt. Now, I know that thunderbolts are not in anyway associated with current themes, but I think it can add something to that powerful-sharp appeal to the letter:

You know what I'm going to hate though?If they rush the new stadium project, and nickle and dime it into mediocrity.IMHO, if you are going to spend 100mill on a structure, and it's only partially better than what you got, why spend the 100mill? Spend 150 and do it right (these numbers are an example. I have no clue what the budget would be).Sure, a campus location would make a huge difference. Hell, even moving the rubberbowl itself on or near campus would be a great thing. But my point is, I really really really hope we don't do it half assed just to do it.:(I wish there was a way I could get involved, but I suspect there are people in place who both want to monopolize the project for themselves and wouldn't accept outside input, and they probably want to viel it in a cloak of secrecy for planning effectiveness.

It was great to get excited about games.It was fun to participate in post season.Thank you to the coaches and players for the effort. I hope it was 'good times' for you all to go along with all the hard work you put in.We're looking forward to next year.

If we can be down by less than 8 at the half, I will still be somewhat optimistic

Down by 12. This seems familiar.

With the money is costs to operate a radio station, hire a staff, etc etc etc...why? Why do that when you already have the best college radio station in the United States? To broadcast games? And what else would they do? Because, as was said earlier (and I am not familiar with WZIP, so I'm going off this thread), the station is non-profit, which to me means they don't sell ad time.If you have a commercial station, you can compete in a market for advertising dollars, thus, if best case, it will run a profit, but if not, you atleast offset the expenses that you mentioned.Additionally, consider this. The Athletic Department takes bids (or allows stations to compete) for the rights to air the games. Well, why would those stations want to spend money for contracts to air the games if they don't make advertising profits? I can tell you as someone who has worked in media (not broadcast media) that if you are the one selling the ad space or ad time, you are going to make more than if you sold your content rights to someone else who sold the ad space, because they need a cut of the action too.And, when I said that students can gain experience, I didn't mean technical experience. Obviously, WZIP is a very well run operation, and they can definately learn technical, procedural, and other experience there. However, they may not get full experience in being competative in a commericial market there.