No Coke. We have Fake Coke

As a fellow Sports Ad undergrad I can second all of this. The undergrads get lower responsibility positions, mostly all volunteer work and it counts as hours toward their degree. The grad program positions are most likely paid and have more responsibility. There's only so many positions to go around.

I used to work in Dining Services at Shively and they would always ask for volunteers to work at the basketball and football games. I believe they still got paid, but you weren't required to go.

That would have been when dining services had the concessions contract, which was as big an abomination as parking. By the time dining services wrote off all there expenses and internally billed Athletics got nothing for concessions. Current situation is miles better than where Ohio was at 10-15 years ago.

While we're at it, I would LOVE a South exit from the stadium! How nice would it be to exit there, go under the bridge and be at my car in the grass lot without having to deal with the richland intersection?

The answer is VERY NICE!

We have the P Cola. No substitute for The Real Thing. Straight - Or with Bourbon....

They should form a feedback group of season ticket holders and listen to ideas on everything from tailgating atmosphere to gameday operations and concessions. Common sense could alleviate some of these issues.

Sure but who reads message boards? Now back to my General OU discussion board.

I second this. I just do not like Pepsi. I'll only drink it if it is given to me if I am guest at someone's home or something so not to be a rude jerk and that's only if I am offered "Coke." I dare not mix good corn from a jar with it!

I'll do the Dew or Dr. Pepper as both are usually offered by Pepsi drink providers.

Also it does make me scratch my head why so many common experiences/services seem to be lost on our game day customer service/experience. I have probably been spoiled going to a lot of pro stadiums and major college venues but I have also been to some single A minor league ball parks and some low end hockey arenas that still offered great choices for food and drink and were clean, up to date, and organized.

I also wonder what would it take to be able to entice a few restaurants to set up shop in Peden/The Convo? I'm sure there is language in our current contract to prevent it currently but what about planning for when that contract expires? Our opponent this week, Tennessee, has several Knoxville based restaurants operating within Neyland-notably Calhoun's BBQ and Petro's (believe it or not it has made quite a niche selling basically walking tacos and has several restaurants around KNX).

I know that is not an apples to apples comparison in terms of stadium size/potential customer base but if we honestly have 15-24K in attendance at a football game that would hopefully catch someone's attention as a chance to make money. I'd love to be able to buy a few slices of Goodfella's Pizza or a few O'Betty's dogs at a game.

The last few times I have purchased food at The Convo or Peden it was gas station quality at best-and I'm talking Speedway-not Sheetz.

"We haven't the money so we have to think." Ernest Rutherford

"Even if we have the money we have to think." Monroe's Corollary

All of these will take a considerable capital investment for both Peden and the Convo. We've already sank millions into the Convo and there are millions more of needed work. In my opinion the Department is doing an admirable job with the lack of resources they have to work with. And before we do some of this stuff, I'd like to see the Softball Team get a stadium.

Chicken wings, every sporting event should have chicken wings and I'm talking the non breaded with bones in them.. Not the sauced up chicken nuggets they call chicken wings. Tacos would be good too.

In wheeling WV the minor league hockey team last year changed their concessions. They brought in restaurants from around the area. They have wings from Quaker steak, subs from some local sub shop. Their concession got a major upgrade over the usual boring stuff.

Green paint, making existing TVs functional so that they show something related to the game being played, and some simple "posters" of past and current players on the walls in the concourses require significant capital investment?