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Vol. 35, No. 14
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SAFETY IS AT FRONT OF LINE
Tressel’s candidacy is cloudy subject Experts say it’s unclear how NCAA penalty would affect potential presidency at Akron
Indians will ‘roll out’ metal detectors this season; local company benefits
By TIMOTHY MAGAW tmagaw@crain.com
By KEVIN KLEPS kkleps@crain.com
Tigers had the detectors in place for their home opener on Monday, March 31 — a year ahead of the MLB mandate. The Indians didn’t use their new metal detectors for their sold-out home opener on Friday, April 4, but Folk said the club will unveil them soon. He didn’t want to disclose the number of metal detectors the Indians purchased from CEIA because they will use a “roll-out” process to determine if they have a sufficient number in place.
Jim Tressel’s fall from grace as Ohio State University’s seemingly invincible football coach was punctuated by half-serious comments from then-university president E. Gordon Gee that Tressel’s status was so cemented at the school that Gee considered it more likely the coach would fire him — not the other way Tressel around. The notion that a football coach could wield so much power over a university angered many, but now Tressel may get his shot at running the whole show, as he’s among a group of 19 individuals who formally have applied to succeed Luis Proenza as president at the University of Akron. Some even call him the frontrunner. However, some legal experts suggest Tressel — now an executive vice president at UA — still could be saddled by sanctions levied by the NCAA, even if he isn’t calling plays from the sidelines.
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ans who enter the gates at Progressive Field later this season won’t be required to remove their shoes or belts, but they will be asked to walk through a metal detector. Major League Baseball’s new security initiative, which mandates that hand-held or walk-through detection be in place by 2015, has resulted in teams such as the Cleveland Indians testing the procedures this season. And for Twinsburg-based CEIA USA Ltd., the mandate has meant more business for a 17-year-old company that already had made a name for itself by manufacturing metal detectors for airports as well as federal, state and local governments. When baseball announced its security initiative in January, it said it was being assisted by CEIA and GSIS, a Washington, D.C.-based security consultant. Jim Folk, the Tribe’s vice president of ballpark operations, said the Indians were aware of CEIA’s strong reputation and mentioned the company to MLB.
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Baseball then negotiated pricing for all of its clubs, Folk said. Luca Cacioli, director of operations for CEIA USA, said the company was “glad and honored” to be working with MLB. “What it means from a financial standpoint, I can’t disclose,” Cacioli said with a laugh.
No ‘magic number’ for MLB Marilyn Thaxton, the North American marketing manager for CEIA, said the company’s contract
with baseball isn’t “exclusive,” but “most” clubs have bought metal detectors from the Twinsburg business. CEIA won’t reveal the teams with which it’s working, but clubs such as the Indians, Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins already have confirmed partnerships with CEIA. The Tigers bought 55 walkthrough metal detectors and 15 hand-held screening wands from CEIA, Mike Healy, the team’s vice president of ballpark operations, told Crain’s Detroit Business. The
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