eb59
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2012 15:16:52 GMT -5
"The DC Dump" is another one that could be used....
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Sept 29, 2012 15:19:33 GMT -5
Yep, GU has no pride. Certainly didn't invest millions of dollars in new academic and student life buildings just up the hill.
Your point is taken. The football field is a joke. But GU has been busy building other things.
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eb59
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2012 15:34:24 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaparents on Sept 29, 2012 15:48:14 GMT -5
BROWN 34 HOYAS 10 MID 4TH QUARTER
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Post by kchoya on Sept 29, 2012 15:52:03 GMT -5
BROWN 34 HOYAS 10 MID 4TH QUARTER I blame the Impala.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Sept 29, 2012 16:45:27 GMT -5
Yep, GU has no pride. Certainly didn't invest millions of dollars in new academic and student life buildings just up the hill. Your point is taken. The football field is a joke. But GU has been busy building other things. Sorry but that crap doesn't fly as a valid excuse almost a decade after the university publically committed itself to rectifying that joke of a facility. That might be an excuse to blow off a 45K seat $150MM stadium, but not a small but decent high school sized one. Pretty sure the schools we consider our contemporaries have nice science facilities too. After taking lots of people's money to build it and starting to build it 9 years ago- to not include even $5-10MM for something small but decent in the billion dollar new campaign was a slap in the face of those people who have supported the program (and lax) through lots of lean times.
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Post by 98hoya on Sept 29, 2012 16:52:56 GMT -5
Yep - Total joke, I'm getting about 30 sec of video every 5 mins. Just so typical of the GU athletic dept and anything that it gets associated with - Half A$$ and on the cheap! I assumed it was my computer - I guess not. What a shame. I ended up listening to the GTB broadcast. It wasn't great, but the kids doing the announcing were enthusiastic and it let me watch major games on mute. A cruddy game.
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 3, 2012 22:56:20 GMT -5
Yep - Total joke, I'm getting about 30 sec of video every 5 mins. Just so typical of the GU athletic dept and anything that it gets associated with - Half A$$ and on the cheap! I spent over 20 years in the broadcasting business, at a time when the technology was over telephone lines. This is not rocket science. I suggest we buy the future broadcast rights to the games, and produce the games ourselves. Totally unwatchable. Bang up job Athletic Dept following the nationally televised win vs Princeton....Homecoming vs another Ivy when interest in the gfootball has never been higher and the video feed is TOTALLY broken? You know you are still responsbile even if you outsource the feed to some crap outlet. We don't blame them Lee Reed....we blame you. I really hate to quote myself from something I wrote just 5 posts ago, but... ...my operating assumption has been that the purpose of having All Access, Gametracker, etc. is merely to say that we have them. Anything that would popularize their use, be it offering them as a featured incentive or making them high-quality, would induce greater demand. More and more people would start to complain about the quality of the offerings and demand improvements. Improvements cost money, and money is in short supply. Come to think of it, one could also probably paraphrase that and say that "the purpose of having a football program is to say that we have one." It's no secret that among many - probably most - in academia, especially in the higher echelons, college football has become a source of embarrassment. Massively commercialized, with huge money at play, academics falling by the wayside, other sports programs subsumed, etc. etc. In such a context, keeping the program on simmer, never committing too many resources, looks like a safe course of action. The aspiration is to be Ivy-like, but given the gulf between our resources and theirs, what we get is Ivy-lite.
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