Brandon Hanning has done more for this University than anyone in the HR department ever will.

How are they dropping the ball on this so badly? Something new and exciting is being added to the stadium and we're a little over one month away from kickoff, yet nothing has been said about it. Unless it's not gonna take long and they haven't started, but I would think it might?

You can insert this comment into so many things re: Ohio athletics

I'll be kind - you can insert the comment about some things that could be done better. Let's not forget that since Jim Schaus started that some things have come light years from what it was before him.

The Sports Administration program is NOT part of OHIO Athletics, the professors have no ties to the department, and the closest the students get is game day set up and some internships. We act like this degree program should make us the best athletic department, when in reality more money and more staffing would make us a much better athletic department. Peden is almost 100 years old, in 2000 the administration made a decision to renovate and did so in a way that for the foreseeable future Peden is what we have. Instead of always lambasting the people who work hard with what they are given, let's be thankful for those people who often work as departments of 1-2 people, when their peers in the MAC have 5-12 people.

Ping dumped some money into Peden right before 2000 so it made sense to continue to build on those renovations for a few million dollars than a tear down and rebuild. Some of the issue I believe was location for a new stadium was/is limited space on the athletics mall. The stadium is on a prime corner.

Tower was complete by 1994. A big new stadium investment right before 2000. Then the corner seats were done just before that. If Ping didn't build the tower there would be more of an argument for going outright new.

I think (and hope) many of us on here realize that sports ad program is NOT part of the athletic dept. But if your next door neighbor is really, really good at something .... wouldn't you ask them to help you out? Seems like there is an opportunity for some "on-the-job training" for those in that program. A ton of people from that program end up with pro sports teams or other major college programs. Would it not hurt to set something up where they get some hands-on experience working gameday operations or marketing for a Division I football/basketball program? I see them all the time out at TailGreat Park peddling their t-shirts to fund the program ... wouldn't they be more well-served actually working with the program?

Over half the staff for the ESPN3 broadcasts are students with the exception of the on-air talent. That's great hands-on experience.

I'm just saying there is a lot of talent roaming the campus in Athens .... and it's sometimes woefully used at our prime athletic events.

I totally get that our athletic dept is woefully staffed and underfunded. (I'm not sure I believe there are MAC schools with 12 people in some depts that Ohio has 1. Ohio typically pumps more money into football/basketball than most MAC schools)

Just saying I think there is a missed opportunity there.

On the field and off the field .... that 2009-2012 stretch was some of the best in Ohio athletics history (especially for football/baskeball). The notoriety and visibility of the athletic program was never higher, in my opinion. Losing Evan Shaw and more importantly those shows he did was a massive blow to the exposure football and basketball got regionally and nationally. Why those haven't come back is beyond me? I understand Evan most likely did it because he loved it ... but those set the school apart from other MAC schools and other mid-majors. Ohio has opportunities to set themselves apart from the rest of the league on a lot of different levels ... and sometimes I think they find themselves just accepting the status quo that the rest of the league settles for. Ohio should be the premier, flagship program in the MAC ... and sometimes I think we just get in our own way

That's good, because as of Tuesday night, there's nothing there but the brick and a metal frame.

I'm a graduate of the undergrad Sports Ad program. There are plenty of opportunities to help out for those who are willing to actually do it. Not sure what the curriculum is for the degree now, but you were required to complete both a practicum experience (basically an internship that only last a quarter) and an internship (which could be substituted with extra courses if you weren't able to land one).

I was lucky enough to do both, and both of which I actually had to get myself. Yeah, I knew of one or two professors who would get details and send them out to students, but we had to actually go ask about the job and land it.

My practicum was in the athletic department working with Media Relations. They relied pretty heavily on us interns who were there just getting experience for no pay and more or less filling in the blanks with easy stuff. Also got to operate the scoreboard and game clock during lacrosse matches, which was cool. And the college credit toward the degree was well worth it.

Now, I can't speak for the Graduate Program. But I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities to help out for those willing to stick their nose in there.

The Carin Center was finished in 1999 so obviously the decision to renovate rather than rebuild was made before that point. I'm guessing 1995 when Boeh was grappling with the NCAA attendance requirements but as I've pointed out it was just a few years after the tower was completely finished (1991) at a cost of 5.3 million dollars. The time gap between Ping building the tower and Boeh coming on board was just a few years, not a decade+ as you are trying to make it to be.

https://archive.org/stream/ohiouniversityto141ohio#page/4...

Not sure if we are talking about the same tweet but it's just the brick with mounting brackets in the picture I saw. I'd imagine that the installation would go relatively quickly once the new scoreboard and accessories arrive in Athens if the support structures are ready to go.

Look at "progress" on the scoreboard today from Arkley -
https://twitter.com/JasonAmessenger/status/89458737125289...