OT: Ohio State to sell beer stadium-wide at during 2016 football se

[The Public Enemy]

Well...Ohio State is joining the parade...when will the SEC join..

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State will begin selling beer stadium-wide at Buckeyes home football games during the 2016 season, the university announced on Wednesday.

This is an extension of a pilot program started last year, when alcohol was available for purchase by fans in the suite and club levels of Ohio Stadium.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told cleveland.com before last season that this could be a possiblity, but that the university wanted to study the impact of alcohol sales at football games more closely before it was fully implemented.

"I don't know if it's coming, but we're going to keep studying it, probably at a more intense level than I've studied it in the past," Smith said last August. "We have to look at it harder."

Ohio State has sold alcohol in club seats at men's and women's basketball games and hockey games at the Schottenstein Center since that venue opened in 1998.

The revenue from beer sales this football season will help fund two new full-time positions in the Ohio State police department, at a cost of $300,000.

Ohio State joins universities across the country -- like Texas, West Virginia, Minnesota and Louisville -- that sell alcohol at football games.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2016/06/ohio_state_to_star_selling_bee.html

 

[vhcat70]

Time to end class discrimination.

 

[The Public Enemy]

Time to end class discrimination.

No more sneaking your liquor in your pocket or getting blasted in tailgate...make even more $$$ legally

 

[UKat51]

Well...Ohio State is joining the parade...when will the SEC join..

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State will begin selling beer stadium-wide at Buckeyes home football games during the 2016 season, the university announced on Wednesday.

This is an extension of a pilot program started last year, when alcohol was available for purchase by fans in the suite and club levels of Ohio Stadium.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told cleveland.com before last season that this could be a possiblity, but that the university wanted to study the impact of alcohol sales at football games more closely before it was fully implemented.

"I don't know if it's coming, but we're going to keep studying it, probably at a more intense level than I've studied it in the past," Smith said last August. "We have to look at it harder."

Ohio State has sold alcohol in club seats at men's and women's basketball games and hockey games at the Schottenstein Center since that venue opened in 1998.

The revenue from beer sales this football season will help fund two new full-time positions in the Ohio State police department, at a cost of $300,000.

Ohio State joins universities across the country -- like Texas, West Virginia, Minnesota and Louisville -- that sell alcohol at football games.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2016/06/ohio_state_to_star_selling_bee.html

UK does not need a stadium full of drunks. Hope SEC never allows alcohol. Ever been to UL game..... pathetic behavior when most are drunk

 

[CB3UK]

The suites at Commonwealth already get booze. Most fans already sneak it in. It's stupid not to make a profit off of it. It's going to happen regardless of whether it's sanctioned.

 

[StubbornPenny]

The suites at Commonwealth already get booze. Most fans already sneak it in. It's stupid not to make a profit off of it. It's going to happen regardless of whether it's sanctioned.

This. It's like no one will say the emperor has no clothes.

 

[AbsoluteCats]

The suites at Commonwealth already get booze. Most fans already sneak it in. It's stupid not to make a profit off of it. It's going to happen regardless of whether it's sanctioned.

Texas A&M is selling it this year. I wish UK would just be smart and go ahead and sell it.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Well...Ohio State is joining the parade...when will the SEC join..

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State will begin selling beer stadium-wide at Buckeyes home football games during the 2016 season, the university announced on Wednesday.

This is an extension of a pilot program started last year, when alcohol was available for purchase by fans in the suite and club levels of Ohio Stadium.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told cleveland.com before last season that this could be a possiblity, but that the university wanted to study the impact of alcohol sales at football games more closely before it was fully implemented.

"I don't know if it's coming, but we're going to keep studying it, probably at a more intense level than I've studied it in the past," Smith said last August. "We have to look at it harder."

Ohio State has sold alcohol in club seats at men's and women's basketball games and hockey games at the Schottenstein Center since that venue opened in 1998.

The revenue from beer sales this football season will help fund two new full-time positions in the Ohio State police department, at a cost of $300,000.

Ohio State joins universities across the country -- like Texas, West Virginia, Minnesota and Louisville -- that sell alcohol at football games.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2016/06/ohio_state_to_star_selling_bee.html

300k only funds 2 full time campus policemen? I thought it was going to say fund 2 full time professors, but 2 full time campus cops cost 300k?

 

[AbsoluteCats]

300k only funds 2 full time campus policemen? I thought it was going to say fund 2 full time professors, but 2 full time campus cops cost 300k?

that's 2 cops plus lots of OT and hush money to the people the players beat up/abuse.

 

[bthaunert]

300k only funds 2 full time campus policemen? I thought it was going to say fund 2 full time professors, but 2 full time campus cops cost 300k?

I would say after medical insurance, retirement benefits, etc, you're getting close to 125k per officer.

 

[DACats86]

Texas A&M is selling it this year. I wish UK would just be smart and go ahead and sell it.

How? No alcohol (to the poors) is a league rule.

 

[KY Hog Man]

This should not surprise anyone. Surrounding states are always ahead of us.

 

[Pulaski Cat Fan]

I think a man should be allowed to partake in a brewski at the game if he wishes.

 

[CatDaddy4daWin]

UK does not need a stadium full of drunks. Hope SEC never allows alcohol. Ever been to UL game..... pathetic behavior when most are drunk

Flawed logic. So instead of letting people buy beer at 6-10% alcohol they sneak in bourbon at 40-50% alcohol. I'd rather have a stadium full of people drunk on beer than bourbon. And UL fans are low class anyway, and we don't snort meth before going in either.

Let the beer flow!!!!

 

[KY Hog Man]

"The revenue from beer sales this football season will help fund two new full-time positions in the Ohio State police department, at a cost of $300,000."

But the actual consumption will require an additional 20 officers on site.

 

[kats23]

I hate that argument of stadium full of drunks. You won't ever have a stadium full of drunks unless you offered beer for a quarter. At $7 a beer, majority of people aren't getting drunk during the game. They're getting blasted before the game. I don't care if the SEC sells beer or not. From a revenue standpoint, you should but I would never buy a beer at a football game where I can drink at tailgate pregame for a lot cheaper. Throw in waiting in line and all that, it's too much trouble for me.

The arguments people use against beer sales sound a lot like people who argue when the state raises speed limit laws. Your first thought in raising the speed limit is that will will cause more wrecks and problems on the road but it doesn't. Offering beer will cause more drunks in the stadium, but it doesn't.

 

[sambowieshin]

BEER LIVES MATTER!!!

 

[Sawyer]

This should not surprise anyone. Surrounding states are always ahead of us.

And some surrounding cities!

 

[vhcat70]

UK does not need a stadium full of drunks. Hope SEC never allows alcohol. Ever been to UL game..... pathetic behavior when most are drunk

You're just anti-blue collar people. The SEC already does allow alcohol. See suites & club.

 

[EKCAT4YRS]

I don't drink alcohol(well one or two drinks per yr) but I think it's wrong to sell to the boxes and not to the "regular" fans!

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

I would say after medical insurance, retirement benefits, etc, you're getting close to 125k per officer.

I guess cops make a lot more in Ohio, in Georgia starting pay is in the 33-40k range, that leaves alot for insurance and retirement and etc. benefits to get to 125k. I guess I was forgetting a new patrol car.

 

[CB3UK]

There will still be folks who sneak bourbon in, but it will subside when you can buy a beer or two inside instead. Most people will do what happens at any other football stadium....drink a lot before and then buy a couple inside over the course of the game. It will actually help curb some drunkenness, because as was said above people inside are pounding hard liquor instead when many would just sit back and drink a few Budweisers instead. Hopefully the local breweries find a way in.

 

[UKat51]

You're just anti-blue collar people. The SEC already does allow alcohol. See suites & club.

The suites charge a minimum of $56k per season. There is alcohol in the suites. Not all suites have alcohol consumption in the suites. UK does not need alcohol in the general stadium for a game. Even less drunks and fights when people sneak in their booze. I prefer to have an atmosphere without all the problems caused by the alcohol.

 

[RS73CAT]

I've had season tickets for 33 years. It's hard enough sometimes to listen to the arm chair coaches, blasting our coaches, so-called fans, booing, and cussing the players. Add more alcohol, and it will more than likely get worse. Does not make for an enjoyable experience. I have been to 7 or 8 games at ul, (asked by good friends...one pretty good looking,) LOL. It can get really bad. I love bourbon, and beer, and I admit, most games I take a small flask, but I don't get out of control. Believe me. it will happen, and in today's society, one serous fight, with injuries, and UK will get sued. If UK puts some serious penalties on problem fans, it could work. I guess we will see in the next several years.

 

[AbsoluteCats]

I've had season tickets for 33 years. It's hard enough sometimes to listen to the arm chair coaches, blasting our coaches, so-called fans, booing, and cussing the players. Add more alcohol, and it will more than likely get worse. Does not make for an enjoyable experience. I have been to 7 or 8 games at ul, (asked by good friends...one pretty good looking,) LOL. It can get really bad. I love bourbon, and beer, and I admit, most games I take a small flask, but I don't get out of control. Believe me. it will happen, and in today's society, one serous fight, with injuries, and UK will get sued. If UK puts some serious penalties on problem fans, it could work. I guess we will see in the next several years.

It wont happen any more than it happens now....I have brought in an 18 pack of beer one game and 2 2 liters of pre mixed bourbon and cokes another....as well as plenty of bottles of "water" aka vodka....Its crazy easy to sneak in plenty of booze. Look at the trash bins as you walk up to the gates they are full of empty cans/bottles....if you sell inside you wont have as much bingeing on the way in. The entire ACC sells in the stadiums....all the Pro stadiums sell. The only difference is the small portions of students....and you don't think they are already not hammered and wont continue to be?? Come on get serious and open up the revenue to fund some other projects.

 

[vhcat70]

The suites charge a minimum of $56k per season. There is alcohol in the suites. Not all suites have alcohol consumption in the suites. UK does not need alcohol in the general stadium for a game. Even less drunks and fights when people sneak in their booze. I prefer to have an atmosphere without all the problems caused by the alcohol.

UK could charge $156K for suites, it's immaterial. Not all seats would have alcohol consumption if allowed. UK doesn't need alcohol in suites or club sections. I'm not bothered that a few act up with alcohol & prefer the freedom of choice vs. an imposed ban. Could still have alcohol-free sections without limiting others as now.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

UK does not need a stadium full of drunks. Hope SEC never allows alcohol. Ever been to UL game..... pathetic behavior when most are drunk

The people that would drink, are already drinking before the game. Its the same people. So if you think its ok now, then youll probably think the same if its allowed.

Ive never understood the schools relaxed policy on everyone getting wasted at a tailgate and staggering in, as opposed to selling beer at the game.

 

[The Public Enemy]

At WVU they have found once they allowed liquor sales it has help with crowd control...ppl aren't totally lit before the game started...

 

[CB3UK]

I like how it's 2016 and people act as if there isn't decades of data at the professional and collegiate level showing that all of these concerns already have answers. These fears are unfounded and frankly, simply not true. There will be no more or less drunken buffoonery due to alcohol sales, it will continue as it always has. Now we can at least pocket some money and invest further into the program

 

[ram1955]

If I was one of those ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers, if UK chooses to sell alcohol, I'd be on the watch for any traffic accidents resulting in injury following an athletic event. If alcohol was involved, I'd see if I could make a connection between drinking at the game, alcohol sales, etc... and the accident.
UK has deep pockets.

 

[Aces Fan]

If I was one of those ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers, if UK chooses to sell alcohol, I'd be on the watch for any traffic accidents resulting in injury following an athletic event. If alcohol was involved, I'd see if I could make a connection between drinking at the game, alcohol sales, etc... and the accident.
UK has deep pockets.

You do realize that NBA, MLB, NFL, and lots of colleges already allow alcohol sales. If there was a legitimate case don't you think these ambulance chasers would have already done this somewhere else?

 

[ukalum1988]

I've always wanted to pay $7 or $8 for a warm cup of beer at sporting events - it's time for UK to cash in!

Seriously, I have mixed emotions about this. I like a cold beer as much as the next guy but I definitely don't like drunk obnoxious fans around ruining my game-day experience. Short of administering breathalyzer tests and full body searches on the way in, I don't know how you could keep drunk fans from coming into the game to begin with. I can sympathize with the various viewpoints in this thread, and whatever UK decides to do either way is fine with me.

 

[ukalum1988]

At WVU they have found once they allowed liquor sales it has help with crowd control...ppl aren't totally lit before the game started...

How has it affected UL fans?

 

[Aces Fan]

How has it affected UL fans?

It's not fair to ask how it affects UL because they are an institution that rewards social deviancy so there fans, although naturally trashy, don't think they are doing anything wrong when act like morons.

 

[The Public Enemy]

How has it affected UL fans?

No different then NFL Fans...go to a Pro Game and crowd behavior is similar...ppl are going to drink the difference is now instead of sneaking it in it is somewhat controlled...myself don't drink alcohol at all...pretty much a exercise and health food junky...

 

[gojvc]

UK does not need a stadium full of drunks. Hope SEC never allows alcohol. Ever been to UL game..... pathetic behavior when most are drunk

There's already a stadium full of drunks. They'd probably be less so drinking beers than pouring a pint of bourbon into one or two cokes.

 

[vhcat70]

Yea, Ohio State has no idea what they're doing when it comes to running a college football program. LOL. People want to complain about rising ticket prices yet oppose a new revenue source. You'd think that those that don't drink would be happy that others pony up more.

 

[Chuckinden]

I guess cops make a lot more in Ohio, in Georgia starting pay is in the 33-40k range, that leaves alot for insurance and retirement and etc. benefits to get to 125k. I guess I was forgetting a new patrol car.

The cops in Ohio deserve it for having to live there.

 

[ARC Dog]

I would say after medical insurance, retirement benefits, etc, you're getting close to 125k per officer.

No way - not 1/3 of that.

 

[scotthart]

Is the liquor in the Suites and the premium areas "allowed" or do the officials just look the other way?