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Rowdy Rufus
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Practice Facility

Posted: 3/16/2011 12:47:12 PM

Has anyone seen any drawings for the proposed practice facility?

Panda
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:48:47 PM

There are no drawings. There are ideas. Committee to develop ideas for architect. Plus Shaus and gang are making visits, contacts with those institutions that have similiar facilities.

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rpbobcat
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 10:27:58 AM

According to the 3/30 Post,even though someone donated the money to build the facility,the Faculty Senate is concerned with the costs to operate/maintain it.

Doc Bobcat
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 10:30:08 AM

rpbobcat wrote:

According to the 3/30 Post,even though someone donated the money to build the facility,the Faculty Senate is concerned with the costs to operate/maintain it.

You gotta be sh......oh wait.....I forgot what time of history that I'm living in.

Kinggeorge4
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 10:46:57 AM

Faculty Senate will raise this question with every gift to the university that isn't associated with academics. They are still questioning the baseball field.

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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 1:05:27 PM

From reading the Post's article,O.U.'s director of Facilities feels that the costs to operate and maintain the IPF would be "slightly" less then a typical building at O.U.
As an engineer,"slightly" seems an understatement,"signifigant" is more like it.
I presume that the facility would be heated through O.U.'s central plant.Therefore,the costs for heating would be much less then if it has an independent HVAC system.
Since the IPF would not be used "full time" it doesn't need to be "lit,except when in use.
As far as maintinace,if its to be a large open "field,the only "regular" maintinace should be keeping the restrooms clean and "grooming" the turf every few weeks when its in use.

sargentfan
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 1:31:23 PM

I assume it will have an indoor track and a field turf field as its major aspects. Would give a leg up for our track athletes as well as a field that could be used by multiple teams (field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, football).

Alan Swank
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 3:33:13 PM

sargentfan wrote:

Three things - calling this an indoor practice facility is the best way I know to build opposition to it. Case in point, the Athens Community Center that we old timers call city rec, was sold as a multi-purpose facility. Second, according to a highly placed source, there is not currently a plan for a track. Third, this structure will be built separate from the student stands.

Bert Presley
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 4:31:31 PM

Call it what you want, the ROTC was in the Post; why haven't they had some sort of input on the facility as it could be utilized by them as well. As far as utilizing the Facility for academic or club uses I'm not sure how much of a sell that is, but it would free up resources for Academic purposes.

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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 11:03:12 PM

It was my understanding from earlier comments from adm. regarding an "indoor facility", that ROTC would be contacted on their use as well as academic areas within Health Sciences.

Really with Gov. Kasich's new educational requirement that professors will be required to teach an additional academic course each semster they should not have time to worry about those areas that are not really of their concerns. They should be real busy in new class or course preparation!! People should realize that the average professor on campus teach only one or two courses per quarter. Some of those for thirty years without research development. In fact, it would be interesting to see how many are less then two. What a life!!

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BobcatJH
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/30/2011 11:15:02 PM

"What a life."

Get a clue. You have absolutely no idea.

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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/31/2011 7:55:27 PM

This battle over the IPF is comical to watch. The announcement of the contribution came hours before the football team’s Prime Time National TV exposure. After the announcement it was clear that the money was directed 100% to the athletic department for an IPF and some Convo renovations. The Walters Family already generously donated buildings for academics. It is their money and if OU does not want an IPF maybe they should give the money to another school that does.

The Walters Family recently donated $4 million to the school my kids attend; not including a previous donation for a state of the art gymnasium complete with awesome scoreboards and retractable seating. Every 4^th grader I know can tell you the name and are genuinely thankful. Exceptionally generous considering no one in their immediate family has ever attended the school.

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sargentfan wrote:

This is really funny! Maybe Alan is on to something. It worked for our President in Libya. Call it a Kinetic Operational Indoor Practice Facility instead of an IPF. Political correctness is always the best way to shut up the brain trust who are not intelligent enough to think past ideology. I have some good friends who are being deployed to our Kinetic operation as we speak with no outrage from the certifiable pc crowd.

Let’s call it what it is; an indoor practice facility for the football team. I must admit it can be entertaining to watch the little hall monitors make fools of them selves trying to direct someone else’s generosity.

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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 3/31/2011 10:09:02 PM

DublinCat wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

sargentfan wrote:

This is beyond ludicrous.

I thought the people who currently attend my alma mater were smarter than that.

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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 2:11:53 PM

Hmm . . . ROTC . . . now that's an idea. Let's ask the DOD to pay for maintenance. We'll call it the Indoor Drill Field and Football Practice Facility -- the IDF&FPF. Now, watch the PC crowd have a collective hernia over that one. I, for one, would love to see it happen. Some of these folks make for the best sideshow since Barnum & Bailey.

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Bert Presley
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 4:35:29 PM

You realize that having the DoD pay for upkeep if it has use to the ROTC Program is possible even if they pay part of the upkeep it is more money the University can pocket and thus use on Academics which is why we are a University and miami is a lou who zer (Loser, just wanted to do the Jim Carrey joke, can you feel it?)

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Alan Swank
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 10:00:54 PM

Here is the original announcement. It clearly states multipurpose center.

President McDavis will appoint a campus-wide committee to provide input on programming and functions for the multipurpose center, which will be used for activities including student life, academics, intramurals, intercollegiate athletic practices, and rehearsals for The Marching 110.

Notice what is mentioned fourth.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/genrel/121710aaa.html

Last Edited: 4/1/2011 10:03:16 PM by Alan Swank

Doc Bobcat
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 10:17:57 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Here is the original announcement. It clearly states multipurpose center.

President McDavis will appoint a campus-wide committee to provide input on programming and functions for the multipurpose center, which will be used for activities including student life, academics, intramurals, intercollegiate athletic practices, and rehearsals for The Marching 110.

Notice what is mentioned fourth.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/genrel/121710aaa.html

Why would anyone argue against a facility that would be used by OUr marching band.

Man things sure have changed in my eyes......we loved OUr band then and we do now.

Alan Swank
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 10:36:09 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

Here is the original announcement. It clearly states multipurpose center.

President McDavis will appoint a campus-wide committee to provide input on programming and functions for the multipurpose center, which will be used for activities including student life, academics, intramurals, intercollegiate athletic practices, and rehearsals for The Marching 110.

Notice what is mentioned fourth.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/genrel/121710aaa.html

Why would anyone argue against a facility that would be used by OUr marching band.

Man things sure have changed in my eyes......we loved OUr band then and we do now.

No one is Doc.

Last Edited: 4/1/2011 10:36:41 PM by Alan Swank

DublinCat
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RE: Practice Facility

Posted: 4/1/2011 11:07:09 PM

I would assume that others could practice in the IPF when the football team is not using it. Otherwise it’s not much different than a larger Ping Student Center. Frank mentioned the IPF as a recruiting tool when announcing the new class. A very generous gift, not sure why this one has to be so complicated. I would not expect this one to come with the same expectations as the one in Connecticut.

These new team practice facilities seem to be a trend in basketball too. I wonder if Butler’s new basketball practice facility is open to all other student groups. If so, it’s not much different than Ping. It seems to be pretty standard that most successful programs now have them donated from private funds.

OU87

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