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Now, if that was for tickets to tsun vs. OSU, I'd have to consider switching pop brands. (Heck of a deal if you're a Minnesota fan.)
In fairness to Brandon, I can see how he arrived at this questionable decision.
After all, most everybody sells Coke with Pizza.
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Bucky32
Legend
We have a pretty good Michigan poster over on one of the Wisconsin boards and he's obviously appalled at everything he's seen this season. He's been a pretty vocal critic of Brandon and Hoke from the get-go. Here's his take:
(Wisconsin poster):
"But listen to what Medic is saying. Hoke is not the right coach, Brandon is not the right AD to lead the department (he hired Hoke - for whomever brought up basketball, note that Brandon didn't hire Bielein). The new university president doesn't care about sports so long as they don't lose money. This is not the 'right' organization; it sure doesn't seem like a Shalala-Richter-Alvarez combination. Wanting to avoid twenty years of darkness is predicated on having someone on the bridge to actually turn the wheel, and I don't think Medic has any faith in those folks in charge."
(Michigan poster in response):
"This. Exactly this. Take it from someone who gets CONSTANT fucking fliers about donate to this school and help us build *that* stadium (most recently the new rowing facility request). The board is focused on getting the alums to build new facilities and not all of it for sports. The business school, the new genetics lab, the perpetual award winning energy and science facilities. THAT is what they are focused on. Football?! That is an after thought in most of their minds (I'm not saying this is a bad thing for them either btw).
The only way.....and I mean O N L Y way Brandon gets fired is if the athletic department runs a deficit and major donors start pulling their support of *academic* facilities as a result of watching something they grew up loving....die. I've voiced my displeasure with the Regents but I am a small time guy. They give exactly zero fucks when I complain. Now if Nick Costolo pulls his support, then....SOMEONE might listen. I don't see it happening. The Regents and the AD probably think everything is fine at Fort Michigan and this is all just a minor blip on the radar. What they don't understand is that Brandon has destroyed the brand, the culture of football Saturday. He has sucked the JOY out of something we all once loved and sacrificed it at the altar of higher margins and I despise him for it. The orgy of fly overs, Beyonce (what the fuck....seriously)-esque performances, the piped in rock music. I'm shocked there hasn't been a steady dose of "Sandstorm" just to make the stadium experience 100% douche.
Growing up with Michigan football was about as close to a secular religion as I've ever come, it was just part of what you did. That is gone now. Gone for an entire generation of kids and a generation of recruits none of whom remembers the last time Michigan was consistently relevant.
Those in charge do not have the clarity nor the will to do what should be done."
(Wisconsin poster):
"But listen to what Medic is saying. Hoke is not the right coach, Brandon is not the right AD to lead the department (he hired Hoke - for whomever brought up basketball, note that Brandon didn't hire Bielein). The new university president doesn't care about sports so long as they don't lose money. This is not the 'right' organization; it sure doesn't seem like a Shalala-Richter-Alvarez combination. Wanting to avoid twenty years of darkness is predicated on having someone on the bridge to actually turn the wheel, and I don't think Medic has any faith in those folks in charge."
(Michigan poster in response):
"This. Exactly this. Take it from someone who gets CONSTANT fucking fliers about donate to this school and help us build *that* stadium (most recently the new rowing facility request). The board is focused on getting the alums to build new facilities and not all of it for sports. The business school, the new genetics lab, the perpetual award winning energy and science facilities. THAT is what they are focused on. Football?! That is an after thought in most of their minds (I'm not saying this is a bad thing for them either btw).
The only way.....and I mean O N L Y way Brandon gets fired is if the athletic department runs a deficit and major donors start pulling their support of *academic* facilities as a result of watching something they grew up loving....die. I've voiced my displeasure with the Regents but I am a small time guy. They give exactly zero fucks when I complain. Now if Nick Costolo pulls his support, then....SOMEONE might listen. I don't see it happening. The Regents and the AD probably think everything is fine at Fort Michigan and this is all just a minor blip on the radar. What they don't understand is that Brandon has destroyed the brand, the culture of football Saturday. He has sucked the JOY out of something we all once loved and sacrificed it at the altar of higher margins and I despise him for it. The orgy of fly overs, Beyonce (what the fuck....seriously)-esque performances, the piped in rock music. I'm shocked there hasn't been a steady dose of "Sandstorm" just to make the stadium experience 100% douche.
Growing up with Michigan football was about as close to a secular religion as I've ever come, it was just part of what you did. That is gone now. Gone for an entire generation of kids and a generation of recruits none of whom remembers the last time Michigan was consistently relevant.
Those in charge do not have the clarity nor the will to do what should be done."
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Buckeye86
I do not choose to discuss it
I truly, truly hope that $20 spring game tickets and a texting system to report people standing in front of you at the stadium aren't the harbinger of a slide into this type of over commercialized hell for Ohio State football.
I can't lie and say I'm not already concerned about it.
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Oh, fucking a, a 'Falling Down' reference. Well done, sir.
"Now here's what I'm talkin' about. Turn around and look at that M*ch*g*n!"
"Now look at this sorry, miserable, squashed thing."
<photoshoppers?>
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GoBucks1014
Heaven on earth
Sat in 28 C for the Va. Tech game. My impression of the night was that of a corporate event. Not a game of my beloved Buckeyes played in the world's most hallowed cathedral.I truly, truly hope that $20 spring game tickets and a texting system to report people standing in front of you at the stadium aren't the harbinger of a slide into this type of over commercialized hell for Ohio State football.
I can't lie and say I'm not already concerned about it.
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tundra1
Heisman
Now, if that was for tickets to tsun vs. OSU, I'd have to consider switching pop brands. (Heck of a deal if you're a Minnesota fan.)
In fairness to Brandon, I can see how he arrived at this questionable decision.
After all, most everybody sells Coke with Pizza.
Here's how Coke sold him on the two-beverage package deal:
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They've done so multiple times since carr was fired. The question is when will they stop lying about it (perhaps when they are 20-30 under?)
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It will be pretty obvious when the stadium at kick-off looks like it did last week after the rain delay.
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