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ollege football and beer go hand in hand. College and beer go hand in hand. Earlier this week, FAU Student Body President Michael Cepeda leaked on Facebook that FAU was amping up its beer game starting in the fall with the new football season. It will only allow beer sales in designated sections of the stadium during games and no wine or liquor sales in the stadium. Thing is, FAU’s lovely stadium was built in 2011 and cost $70 million. We still owe $45 million on that stadium as of May 2014. And selling tickets to games just isn’t cutting it anymore. Beer sales can help. West Virginia University started selling beer at home games in 2011 and generated $750,000 in revenue in the 2012 season. We shouldn’t stop there. We should sell beer at basketball games too. South Methodist University generated six figures in revenue when they sold beer and wine in their last season, USA Today reports. Not only that, we can set up beer sponsorships like they did at West Virginia. Now, they’re generating sponsorship revenue by selling Anheuser-Busch, MillerCoors and the Morgantown Brewing Co. brand
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beers, according to Sports Business Daily. In February 2013, FAU sold the naming rights to the stadium to the GEO Group, a forprofit prison company with loads of legal baggage. Backlash from students and the local community eventually led to the $6 million deal being rescinded. We did it for the money to pay off the stadium. So, why can’t we do the same now? The biggest argument against beer sales in college athletic settings is that most students are underage. Well, FAU’s not your typical college. Of our 30,000 students, only 30 percent of them are under 21 as of spring 2014, according to data collected by FAU’s Institutional Effectiveness Analysis. By limiting beer sales to only certain sections, you limit the people that will attend. Let me explain. Students 21 and over can sit in these designated sections, purchase and drink their beer only there, according to Media Relations Director Lisa Metcalf. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the development. Problem is I’m underage — and I don’t mean my drinking problem. All of my friends ages 21 and over will be segregated in the wonderful land of beer and college football hype, while I’m stuck at the kid’s table so to speak. I’m all for safety. (FAU plans to have wristbands for drinkers and people checking IDs regularly, according to Metcalf.) But if you’re going to do this, go all the way. Not only allow beer sales in certain sections, but allow liquor, wine AND beer all over the stadium.
Allow the 20-year-olds and 21-year-olds to mingle, while still giving the 21-year-olds the opportunity to buy a cold brewski during the game. We’re going to check wristbands and have bouncers all over the stadium anyway. According to CBS Sports, only 11 of the 120 Division 1 schools sell beer in their oncampus stadiums. Twenty-one sell beer if you count off-campus stadiums (like University of Miami plays in Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins. And yes, they sell beer at college games). The student body president leaked the news of beer at football games in a Facebook post during a campaign to encourage students to come to the first football game. Let’s face it, the team’s not going to fill those seats. Let’s give beer a try.
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AU Student Body President Michael Cepeda used Facebook on June 18 to break the news that FAU would allow beer drinking at the home football games this year. Media Relations Director Lisa Metcalf revealed that Cepeda was partly correct. Beer would be available, she said, in designated sections in the confines of the $70 million stadium that FAU still owes around $45 million dollars on. Not in the student section though. And I don’t think it should be available to anyone. I would be remiss if I did not mention this: Yes, the football program would benefit from the revenue that would come from beer sales this fall. I’ll assume that most of our adult spectators wouldn’t mind guzzling beer at a game this fall. It wasn’t too long ago that being passed out in your seat was a better alternative than watching the game. This is an awfully slippery slope, however. What the school will gain in beer revenue, it will lose in security, and in ambiance. I don’t want any alcohol in the FAU stadium this fall, unless you are inside a suite (those people can already buy beer anyway when they pay for premiere tickets). “But Wesley, professional teams sell alcohol.
How different can it really be?” Families will more readily spend money for a college football game than they will for an NFL game — maybe because most colleges don’t sell beer in their stadiums. Sober fans provide an opportunity for small children to enjoy themselves. Beer means vomiting in and around seats and aisles. Beer means fights over seating arrangements. Beer means incessant cursing and uncomfortable spectators. Not exactly the type of environment that you’d spend your entertainment dollar on if you had children to appease. In his introductory press conference, new head football coach Charlie Partridge mentioned that a recurring motif in his program would be “family.” “What I want to create on Saturdays in this stadium right behind us, is an atmosphere that welcomes families into the stadium,” Patridge said. I’m not sure where exactly inebriated spectators fall within that plan. The attendance at FAU football games is paltry at best. In five home games last season, attendance averaged out to 14,551 fans a game, just under half the capacity of the stadium. It may increase with the offering of beer, but if drunkenness is an issue that could affect the enjoyment of others, beer may not be worth offering. Even more pertinent is the issue of drunk driving. Of the 30,000 students enrolled at FAU, only 12 percent live on campus, which means a majority of our students could be headed home while under the influence. There is a real possibility that an of-age student comes to the stadium, drinks, leaves the game while still drunk, then hits and kills someone on his way to wherever. Does additional revenue trump that? The same day the UP posted a story about beer sales at football games, news came that a former FAU student saw his life come to a horrifying end at the hands of a drunk driver. That makes me uncomfortable. Beer will undoubtedly lead to car accidents. The person on the other end of that accident
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could be a brother, friend, a classmate or it could be you or me. A significant portion of the people at FAU football games are students — 30 percent of them are below the legal drinking of 21, according to FAU’s Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis. All it takes is one missed carding and an underage drinker for a potential of a lawsuit to come. And that could cost FAU more than it may make in beer revenue. If the decision to sell beer to all stadium patrons comes to down to money, the practical decision is clear. Alcohol will bring a badlyneeded additional revenue stream, but I’m not so sure that the pros outweigh the cons.
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physics, we call this quantum tunnelling — a concept of quantum mechanics in which the behavior of particles, such as protons and electrons are studied. Technically, anything has the probability of randomly disappearing and reappearing somewhere else, but bacon is more fun to talk about. Unfortunately, the probability of a piece of bacon quantum tunneling somewhere is extremely improbable — every particle that makes up that piece of bacon would have to tunnel to the same place, the
same time, and stay in the same organization to still be a piece of bacon when it got there. The smaller something is, the higher the probability of this quantum tunneling effect successfully taking place. Quantum tunneling is also dependent on distance — the probability is greatest for it to reappear close by where it originally disappeared and gets less probable the farther away from where it disappeared. It’s more probable that I’ll quantum tunnel to the moon than to the other side of the universe, but this whole concept is a highly improbable event People don’t go missing one day to eventually reappear on mars. It’s most probable for a tiny particle, like an electron, to tunnel across a small point in space. This actually happens a lot and it’s soon going to be a major problem for computers. Computer circuit boards function through electric currents in transistors. Transistors determine the flow, or non-flow, of these currents, depending on if the transistors are “open” or “closed.” In modern computers, these transistors have gotten smaller, causing the computers themselves to get smaller. The problem is that once these transistors get too small, quantum tunneling will begin to affect the current. Electricity is just the flow of electrons, so if the transistors are too small, the electrons will just tunnel through the transistors even when they are “closed.” The important thing to take from all this is that there is an extremely microscopic possibility that an alien is questioningly looking at a piece of bacon that disappeared out from under the surprised face of a fat guy here on earth. Science lets me say that truthfully. Upressonline.com 15
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Morrow broke the news (via his Instagram account) that he was filming with How We Move about a week and a half before the video was completed and posted online. Chun says FAU Athletics didn’t even know about the video until the UP published a story about the matter. Many FAU athletes playing a major sport are represented on Twitter. Notre Dame Compliance has a Twitter account (@irishcompliance) which tweets regulations and deadlines on a somewhat regular basis. Brent Moberg sees its potential as a facet of keeping athletes and coaches informed. “We made a Twitter account sometime in the last couple of years,” Moberg said. “I mean really — how many of our guys
follow it? I don’t think many do, but it’s another outlet.” FAU Compliance also has a Twitter account, but it hasn’t been active since April 2012. It follows no current athletes, and its last tweet is a link to a story about another university (Baylor) being cited for a failure to monitor. In an age where social media is so prevalent, it would make sense that FAU Compliance have a method of tracking their athletes’ activity. Nowadays, that’s as easy as the click of a button. Many universities have Twitter accounts associated with their compliance departments, where they not only follow athletes, but the compliance departments of other schools. Within Conference USA, the same
conference as FAU, the following schools have active compliance departments on Twitter: Tulsa, Charlotte, Texas-El Paso, East Carolina, Marshall, AlabamaBirmingham, Rice, North Texas, Southern Miss, Tulane and Old Dominion. FAU has hundreds of athletes, meaning a lot of ground to cover for just three paid staff members. Moberg mentioned that part of what makes his department run smoothly is that student-athletes and coaches freely enter the compliance office to talk and get clarification. “We have a very good relationships with coaches. Student athletes are in our office a lot. Are all of them in there? No,” he said. “But they absolutely know where to go to ask questions. They don’t see us as the police who are out to get them.”
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primarily “the application and education of NCAA rules.” The current FAU Athletics Compliance Department staff was unavailable for comment on this story. Conference USA Associate Commissioner Courtney MorrisonArcher clearly laid out the responsibilities of a school’s compliance department. “The basic purpose of an athletic compliance office is to ensure that staff members, student-athletes and external constituency groups are aware of and are abiding by all applicable institutional, conference and NCAA rules,” MorrisonArcher said. Notre Dame Director of Compliance Brent Moberg helped clarify some of the chief duties of a compliance department. He mentioned certifying athletes to compete, monitoring all recruiting and financial aid activities, educating athletes
regarding NCAA rules and the issue of amateurism. “Education goes broad. We meet regularly with coaches and players, we send mail out to boosters, we make educational videos.” Moberg also explained that around the time of special athletic events — the Super Bowl and March Madness, for example — Notre Dame Compliance even makes a gambling reminder video to ensure the student-athletes know the punishment that comes with gambling. As it pertains to education, Moberg says that Notre Dame has scheduled meetings with teams at the beginning of each academic semester, then regularly with coaches and other staff during the academic year. “We meet with them at the beginning of fall and have an educational session,” he said. “Same with the beginning of
spring.” Somewhere along the line there was a miscommunication between the FAU Compliance Department and Morrow, who was completely unaware that he might have made a mistake by taking part in a commercial. Morrow told the UP that he was not paid for his time, and after a pause, asked, “Is there a problem?” He previously had no idea that a commercial using his face could mean that he can no longer enjoy his last year of playing a sport that he loves. Morrow says no one attempted to stop him from filming the commercial. He let himself and his cohorts into the FAU basketball arena with a simple passcode, and he thought that if issues surrounding the commercial existed, Athletic Director Patrick Chun would have alerted him.
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Morrow claims he saw Chun the day that he filmed the 94-second commercial, which takes place inside the FAU basketball arena. Chun wouldn’t confirm, but he said that he would not dispute either. He mentioned that Morrow will have his degree in a matter of weeks. “We’re talking about a kid who is graduating this summer,” Chun said, repeatedly. “I’ve spent intimate time with him — he’s a great kid. We wish him the best in wherever he chooses to go in his life.” Morrow’s academic eligibility is not in question, but his athletic eligibility is. Every athlete has four years of eligibility upon entering college athletics. Morrow played one year at Tiffin College, then transferred to FAU. The NCAA mandates that transfers sit out one year at their new institution, so Morrow didn’t play at all during the 2011-2012 year. Instead, he redshirted — meaning that he took classes, practiced, and all, but did not play. Redshirting kept Morrow from using one of his years of athletic eligibility. Morrow was an active participant in the following two seasons. Since he only used three years of basketball, he could still play his fourth year, even if he graduated this August.
To put this issue into some perspective, Peyton Manning finished his business degree from the University of Tennessee in just three years. Manning played his entire senior year without classes, with a degree in-hand. Morrow wasn’t sure just what he wanted to do. A source very close to the program told the UP in April that he probably wouldn’t return. Both Chun and Media Relations representative Katrina McCormack said Morrow made it known to them that he did not intend to return to the team after he graduated, and that because he did, this was a non-issue. But Morrow didn’t film the commercial under the premise that he would not be back. He spoke with the UP on June 9 — five days after the video was posted — and said that he preferred taking his time in figuring out his next move “I know people will probably be coming to me about it,” he said. “I’m on my own time.” Chun finds the word “investigation” a bit harsh in this case, and he declined to put a timetable on looking into this matter. He won’t comment until the examination has taken its course. “There is no timetable. We’ve got to do our due diligence,” he said. “Different things take different time.”
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Gone too soon By Wesley Wright Sports Editor
Unsure of whether he wanted to return to the FAU basketball program, Richard Morrow filmed a commercial with two friends. Here’s the issue: commercials are a no-no, but he had no idea.
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ichard Morrow was on the fence about returning to the FAU basketball program as recently as April — turns out that a short commercial may have made the decision for him. He may be rendered ineligible to play his senior season, and the department that should have stopped him won’t answer for it. Shot this June for South Florida activewear company How We Move, the commercial takes place in the FAU basketball arena. In it, Morrow sports a red watch — worth $50 on the site — and wields a basketball while dressed in his FAU practice gear. “They were looking for someone to use,” said Morrow, speaking in reference to co-owners Jarred Noah Moore and Chad Victor Hamilton, two of his friends. Moore is a videographer, and Hamilton runs the day-to-day operations of the company. It turns out that Morrow is the last guy who should have volunteered his time. FAU Athletics is under the umbrella of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which disallows athletes from taking part in promotions of any kind. After three years within the program, why didn’t he know that?
The responsibility for making sure that athletes are educated regarding NCAA rules and regulations falls to the Compliance Department within FAU Athletics. A man by the name of Ed Hayward used to run that compliance department. Hayward was re-assigned in April of this year — he is still employed by the university, but he no longer works within FAU Athletics. Hayward started in 1996, and ushered the department through 18 years with no major NCAA violations. He oversaw the football program as it headed into its first season in 2001, explaining that at times, being a good compliance office might rub people the wrong way. At the time, the school and the NCAA held different standards on eligibility. The NCAA said in order to play, athletes needed a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher, but FAU only required that athletes be eligible to register for classes. As a result, players whose GPA fell below 2.0 sat out the program’s very first football game versus Slippery Rock. “You don’t make a lot of friends doing
that type of stuff,” Hayward said. “I think it was either eight or 13 players that I sat out.” Those players were reinstated the next week after the school aligned its policy with the NCAA. Hayward said that communication is always key to avoiding potential violations. Teams met with him and his staff twice each academic year. “We tried to meet at the beginning and the end of every year,” Hayward said, referring to the FAU Athletics programs. “We’d try to educate them about stuff like [laughing] filming commercials. There were some sports we met with more often, like football and basketball. ” Hayward was reassigned in April of this year, and his assistant left in December 2013. Presently, the Compliance Department has three staff members: Brian Battle, Danielle Daniel and Samantha Sweeney. Sweeney is Battle’s assistant. Daniel only deals with freshman admissions — she is not involved with rules enforcement. Chun says that the responsibilities of his compliance department are Photo by Ryan Murphy
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Richard Morrow starred in a commercial, unknowingly placing his status as an eligible athlete in danger. Most of the blame falls on his shoulders, but there are other people at fault as well. P. 3 By Wesley Wright
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