1. It should be stadium wide. Why close the door to a piece of the revenue stream? Don't give me the speech about under-age drinking either. The University and its catering/concessions partner should have the ability to verify ID's for adults over the age of 21. Also, nothing biblical please. It's too early this Monday.

2. How long until OCF complains about there being no valet to un-cork his wine bottles for him and the Mrs? I'm setting the o/u at Week 2 of the football season when Alan complains that they aren't serving his brand of grape juice. I can already see the new thread - "No '92 Stag's Leap Petite Syrah?" Go ahead and insert your pretzel joke here, but I don't see myself partaking except on the rare occasion. The 90 minute drive back up 33 is a pretty good deterrent for me.

3. Interesting how this coincides with the Groce/Illinois rumors? I'm sure this (along with a Groce retention package) have been in the works a long time, but the timing is no doubt interesting.

Again, put on the big boy pants and sell the devil water across the whole stadium. If someone in the Family Pack wants to buy a $7 Bud Light, I feel confident their money spends as well as someone's in the Tower.

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This is a good idea.  It should be stadium wide.  I would support not having vendors on the student section side of Peden as a compromise.  I do not have Tower Club seats for football simply because I do not want to sit up there.  I guess my crew and i will have to hydrate pregame.  Good thing we start tailgating 6-7 hours before kickoff.  I'll get through the game just fine without beer. 

I wonder if we will have to drink the beer in the Rohr Room only, or if we can take it to our seat.  This is a nice option for our fans.  The revenue stream will help the department, too.   

I feel bad that I don't know this, given my title and all - But it was always my Grandpa footing the bill for the "Roar Room" when he introduced me to OU Basketball growing up (shout out and big thanks to John Jones!).

How much do Rohr Room season tickets cost? And access to the room is a perk of purchasing season tickets in the surrounding sections, right?


edit: Side-note....I feel like my title has become all-the-more apt for next season!

I concur, and say definately sell it on the student side too. Its not like those seats are currently dry by any sense of the word. Its also not like underagers are going to try to buy their beer from the concession stands: they'll do as always and purchase pepsi/mt.dew/gatoraid for use as mixer.

Random thought guys...I haven't been able to attend a football game over the couple years.  I know the 110 was moved into the student section, but what occupies the space behind the endzone where the band used to be?  Imagine dropping a beer garden in that space where it was regulated and also had some sort of tailgate available (burgers, dogs, etc).  That would be such an incredibly huge draw.  You could even create premium endzone seating. 

How about building out the rarely used sky box in the Convo and converting an area where anyone 21+ can go to grab a beverage, a burger, and a high quality soft pretzel while offering a unique view of the game?

Of course I know it will never happen, but if you want to dramatically increase money coming into athletics, selling beer and wine arena/stadium wide or in a specialized area would seriously help.   

Their setup is very simple as well. Superior Beverage shows up with tap truck, they surround it with folding tables, they serve until halftime, and then it goes back to Canton or Youngstown.

Any school that WANTS to do that can quite easily, they just choose not to. All you do is ID EVERYONE, even if they look like they're going to die tomorrow, and limit it to 2 beers per valid ID per transaction.

Right now I think it's the Touchdown Club, and I assume it's more or less Peden's equivalent to the Convo's black seats in front of the students (which is still a terrible idea, but that's a different topic), I haven't seen many people in that Touchdown Club during football games so having a beer garden could definitely help increase attendance in that area in addition to revenue...

This news makes me extremely glad that I chose to begin my Bobcat Club contributions at the Captain's club level.  My liver is already quivering with excitement . . .  Rohr Room access?  Yes please.  And I'll gladly pay $7 for a beverage or two if it's helping out athletics.

For anyone that's been to Progressive Field Cleveland, I could picture that endzone becoming something like the Batter's Eye Bar that exists in center field.   Somehow I couldn't find better pictures of this, but it will givet those an idea that have never been to Progressive Field.



Throw 4 or 5 rows of premium seats in the endzones, some tables behind them where people can sit, and boom.  That's a huge attraction and would draw a bunch of money.  Obviously wishful thinking, but it's time to do some thinking outside of the box.

West Virginia started selling beer at football games last year and made a ton of money, if they can handle it with the type of crowd they draw...why shouldn't Ohio?

This is a revenue stream that really should not be ignored any longer.  If the OU Administration is worried about the "party school" reputation, selling beer at games isn't going to add to that.  It's a long standing reputation that isn't going away.  And here's a question:  How many people on this board went out and bought at least ONE adult beverage while at a game in Cleveland a few weeks back? 

Although, I say go all-in on price-discrimination. Tower Club: you can have $7 beers. Student section: $3/half foam filled cup of natty.