The admin is stupid then, as that did nothing to "clean up" CU's image. If you want to clean up CU's image as a party school, just ensure the football program sucks.
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Stadium Wide Beer at Folsom
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I seem to remember it had to do with the Big 12 conference rules. Anyone else remember that? Maybe one of you could look it up. Thank god we ditched that bible belt conference.
They stopped sales in 1996, because of a boatload of alcohol related incidents. The original ban was for two years, and they pointed to a decrease in student incidents in '96 as a justification for extending the ban indefinitely. There was also something of a national movement toward not selling beer at college stadiums at that time, because of incidents like what happened at Camp Randall stadium in 1993. CU was the last school in the Big XII to allow beer sales before they banned it.
EDIT: I meant to add that student alcohol incidents ended up rising by a lot in the years after 1996, but the initial downtick was enough for them to extend the policy.
So they are putting in metal detectors for everything to walk through, and they aren't making anyone remove phones or keys from their pockets. They say this is going to speed up the entry process, but I don't see how this is the case if the detectors go off every time a person walks through it.
Yeah, win or lose those were some entertaining games for the most part. I remember watching fans trying to pour beer on the opposing team when they came out of the locker room and while sitting in the penalty box.
DrunkRalphie
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Banning liquor sales did nothing at least for me. I'm an expert at sneaking booze into Folsom.
anyone else worried about the students and the no Re-entry?
Eh, as a student I would leave at half clearly to drink more, and I would say maybe 33-50% of the time I would actually come back to the game. Would have been much easier to just buy a few beers at half and stay than walk all the way back to The Hill and then come back. Then again, I attended CU during a ****ty time for the football program, so we didn't really care about coming back for the 2nd half when the Buffs were down by 30+.
That's a weird rule. What do they do, go back to the bar to pick up another partner?
ahoelsken
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Thankfully we've got a man of common sense as our AD. Well done!
It was a misguided attempt to cut down on drunkenness in the stands. It didn’t work.
Of course it didn't work. People gotta sneak their stuff in instead of it being a convenience. When you do that, it's gonna be worse. People are gonna get ****ed up no matter what. Police it better and make sure people aren't getting over served. There are a lot of possibilities the school could use to make sure people get home safe and add a little bank.
How in all of the games I have gone to (didn't miss one as a student) did I never know there was re-entry??
No. A lot of times students leave at half time with the intention of returning but don't anyway. Hopefully if it is not possible to return, students won't decide to leave.
Sportsfan101
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I'm bummed they're shutting down the indoor practice facility for pre-game. We've enjoyed hitting that area pre-game.
i think they were running specials on coors in the student section when i was there. yeah, i am old. they might have been like 30 bucks for a full vendor tray? then, we'd pass them down the aisle and everyone would chug one and then throw the empties at the next row of people before they threw their empties at us.
uh, yeah it did to a degree, although in my opinion, it had already calmed way down in the stands after the drinking age was raised to 21. so, a lot of pain in the ass for not much benefit.
This.
No. With them selling beer stadium wide now, I don't see too big of an issue. If they hadn't done that, then yes.
The way it worked in the long distant past was the beer vendor basically had to pay cash for the vendor tray. Whatever above that he sold it for, he kept. You guys did him a massive service by buying the tray instead of him having to schlep it around for half an hour for individual sales.
Win-win.
BatBuff
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There’s no policing for the basketball student section as of right now.
Meh! All they’re good for is helping me up the stairs. But now with legal booze, I’ll have to help THEM up the stairs.
Ringer
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Yeah, that was a ton of fun in there. Little-known historical note: I was the first person ever to buy a vended beer in the IPF when they first opened it up in 2016. The bringing-the-beer-back-to-your-seat development is huge step forward, even though the security guards at Balch were cool about letting you stand in front of the open doors and watch the game while enjoying a tasty beverage. Woe be to the man who stepped beyond the doorway, however.
b3buffs
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As someone that has joyful memories of witnessing alcohol induced violence at Mile High Stadium back in the day I ask that you please don't deny future generations of any potential similar enjoyment. Besides we have that whole people policing each other thing going on nowadays anyway.
Considering how watered down the beer is likely to be the level of drunkeness will probably go down. Most of us can probably sneak a lot more actual alcohol into the stadium in bottles than we can consume in the cups.
Now the issue is going to be the lines waiting to get into the bathroom to get rid of that beer.