Is the author suggesting that this is not already happening? OU already spends "several magnitudes lower than OSU."

The author does not calculate the value of exposure. What is that worth? Instead he trumpets the "397 tickets worth $15,000," in an effort to totally discredit the ICA. That's not an honest argument.

Bob Walter $10,000,000 > Professor Mosher's opinion.

 

Perhaps you should read the history of the company Aaron

History

Diagnostic Hybrids was founded in 1983 by successful biomedical entrepreneur Wilfred R. Konneker, Ph.D., in collaboration with Ohio University Professors Joseph Jollick, Ph.D., and Thomas E. Wagner, Ph.D., who led the OU research team that developed the world's first transgenic animal. Through our tenacity, optimism, and discipline we continue to develop innovative research. The company became a subsidiary of Quidel Corporation in February 2010.

My words, this company was developed in and came out of OU Innovation Center.  Can't get a better connection than that.

See you Monday with another tidbit.


 

Hey, not sure why you drag my name into defending OSU here?  This article is not about OSU, this is about what we need to do, and I am on record in this thread and others that we need to make the commitment.  I do not mind the little jabs but at least put me on the right side of the plate here. 

The only point I see Mosher really making that holds any water with me, is that as a department and University we hide our real intentions.  We need to publicly promote the good that happens (we don't) we need be up front that the benefits are this, and we need to take a stern stance with the naysayers that this is what it is and this is our commitment.  We don't!

Didn't they come from a stock donation to the Foundation?

Sorry Wanny, I fixed it for you in my original post above, and I agree that the Prez/Board/AD need to do a better marketing job on the topic than they have done to this point.

   

Love is right on the money. In Texas where I work and live Ohio is known first for it's sports not academics. We're The Original OU in my neighborhood  not the dyslexic U of O and The Ohio University as opposed to duh ohio state university at work. Co-workers and neighbors watch our scores, converse with  me about them and ask if I attended. They pull for us to win. Co-workers and neighbors stay away for 24 hours after any loss to fiami and I don't need to tell them the score they watch for it and know  The Tea Sips, Ags, Irish and Cardinal  travel all over the country to their games as do I to ours. Several of my co-workers kids have visited Athens for athletic reasons, two for baseball, one for football and one for girls swimming. In contrast  I've not been back to Athens for any academic reason since I graduated. .. The only time academics has been  mentioned  at work was after the Russ Engineering scandal as I work for a engineering /construction firm and was told not to hire anyone from Ohio for "awhile".... as opposed to after the mascot fight/scandal  I actually recieved a standing "O" in our weekly managers meeting and was asked if there was anywhere we could  hire Rufus. BTW we are now hiring Mechanical,Civil, Electrical Engineers with min 3.4's and Petro Chem. exp.

BTW  speaking of bowl finances  .....here is a  comparison of bowl ticket prices we paid this year. My nephew flew  to New Orleans on his way to the fiami game so at 11:00am the day of the Sugar Bowl he convinced  two co-workers and myself  to  drive to New Orleans. There were thousands upon thousands of unsold tickets to the "sold out" game so we ended up paying $100 for 4 tickets on the 30 yard line. So I paid $40 for our bowl game which equaled the $25 for the Sugar Bowl and $15 for the "sold out"Texas Bowl (a game we also went to).  My nephew paid $10 for the Go Daddy, $25 for the Sugar... less than it would have cost him to go to our game.  I guess that's why many fans do not go through their schools ticket offices since they know that only a couple of the bowls actually sell out.

The reason the athletic department presented the finances for the bowl game the way they did is simple.  They got so much crap and backlash from previous bowl games for just throwing the athletic department money that wasn't a part of the budget and wasn't planned for, that they wanted to show it had been planned and budgeted for.  The goal was most likely to shutup these academic extremists who would love to make you think that their anti-athletics viewpoint represents the majority at Ohio University.  However, they are really a minority, and a small one at that, that constantly uses public forums to take cheap shots and make athletics out to be the bully that beats kids up and takes their lunches!

I have gotten so tired of this garbage from a small portion of faculty.  I would just like to point out that a majority of the opposition comes from professors in areas that probably feel threatened by these budget cuts because deep down they realize that they do not provide university near as much as they like to make it seem.  The result...desperation!  They know they are on the verge of being cut and probably should be, but they don't want to lose the program or the job that they love.  Soooo they find the one thing at the university that is different, athletics, and run a smear campaign and attack it publicly in an effort to take the focus off of them.  They win people over because the athletics department can't publicly defend itself.  You think this is far fetched?  Well then why don't you ever hear the College of Business professors attacking athletics? Why do you rarely, if ever, hear anything from the College of Engineering professors?  SIMPLE: Lack of desperation!  The reason you never see the pro athletics argument printed, I'm not talking about on an athletics forum Swank, is because McDavis knows all of this and realizes the value athletics provides the university and just doesn't want to waste his time or breath.  

Lastly, I want to address the argument that athletics doesn't generate revenue for the university.  20-25% of the department's budget is allocated to scholarships.  The university would never see a dime of that money or see a dime of the money paid by non-scholarship athletes if not for athletics.  More than 400 STUDENT-athletes would go to another school and the university would lose roughly $5M per year in revenue and just about the only external marketing or advertising ability that the school has.  No Athletics...No problem. I promise the cost the university would have to incur to promote the school without athletics would more than cover the athletics budget!  

GooD analysis OCF, that is one reason I'd like to see a strong statement of commitment from the highest up the food chain you can get. Their attacks get old and the media with which they use is older.

Aaron, after thinking about this the last two days, I see no reason to continue this juvenile exercise in "who hit who last" particularly when your hits disparage the reputation of your alma mater.  Not sure what the point in that would be so I'm checking out of this discussion with you.

As for the Break Even Bowl, we did not break even but we operated within budget.  Hopefully when the team qualifies for a bowl next year, that will be the position going in leaving no room for second guessing or criticism.   I think that's a fair request.

Vedder at it again:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2...

+1

Am I correct in reading this story that 20,000 students were given the chance to object to the majority of the general fee being used for athletics spending, and less than 4% of those polled decided to object?

So, in other words, 96% of Ohio University students chose not to object to the general fee.

Talk about mass hysteria.