Football Beer Taps Add Safety, $700,000 to West Virginia Un

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:03 pm

West Virginia University says it has found a profitable way to curb excessive drinking at home football games: sell beer at concession stands.

By tapping kegs at Mountaineer Field, West Virginia has added $700,000 to the athletic department and reduced the number of incidents in which police were called because of excessive drinking by around 30 percent, Athletic Director Oliver Luck said in an interview.

The Morgantown-based university, which is preparing to leave the Big East Conference for the Big 12, made the decision to sell beer at its seven home football games this season after discussions with police at the campus, city and state levels, Luck said on Dec. 7 following the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in New York.

"No athletic director is going to push beer sales through with the cops saying, ‘What? You’re crazy,’" he said. "The alcohol consumption was significant, as it is at a lot of schools, and we felt this is a way to get better control of it."

West Virginia, with an undergraduate enrollment of 22,717, is one of 20 schools in college football’s 120-team top tier, including Louisville and Cincinnati, to sell beer to the public at football games, double what it was 10 years ago, according to the Des Moines Register.

LHS81 · Post by **LHS81** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:13 pm

You don't suppose there's a correlation with couch burning.

East Coast Mustang · Post by **East Coast Mustang** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:15 pm

Could SMU do this unilaterally if they wanted to, or would it require CUSA/UP permission?

SMU_Alumni11 · Post by **SMU_Alumni11** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:17 pm

Well the difference is (and not trying to sound snobby but realisitc) students there probably only can afford to buy (im guessing) an 8 dollar beer. At SMU, if we were given that option, you know people would go out of control splurge of it. Then again, people get free beer all over campus and go drunk crazy. Probably part of the reason they dont show up to the games cause they are next to a toilet.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:19 pm

There is ALWAYS a correlation with couch burning.

East Coast Mustang · Post by **East Coast Mustang** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:57 pm

SMU_Alumni11 wrote:Well the difference is (and not trying to sound snobby but realisitc) students there probably only can afford to buy (im guessing) an 8 dollar beer. At SMU, if we were given that option, you know people would go out of control splurge of it. Then again, people get free beer all over campus and go drunk crazy. Probably part of the reason they dont show up to the games cause they are next to a toilet.

Sounds like more drunk chicks to me. Don't see a problem there

Junior · Post by **Junior** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:08 pm

East Coast Mustang wrote:
SMU_Alumni11 wrote:Well the difference is (and not trying to sound snobby but realisitc) students there probably only can afford to buy (im guessing) an 8 dollar beer. At SMU, if we were given that option, you know people would go out of control splurge of it. Then again, people get free beer all over campus and go drunk crazy. Probably part of the reason they dont show up to the games cause they are next to a toilet.

Sounds like more drunk chicks to me. Don't see a problem there

hard to argue against that. i'm with Herman on this one.

LHS81 · Post by **LHS81** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:28 pm

Not to mention the Morgantown PD making $$$, for arresting 60,000 WVA homeowners and charging them with DUI.

skyscraper · Post by **skyscraper** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:42 pm

Common sense - if you know there's booze inside, no need to binge outside and be blackout drunk as you stumble to the stadium.
I do like that a lot of the Big East stadiums sell beer. Mmmmmm....beer

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:58 pm

We should start burning couches

LHS81 · Post by **LHS81** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:15 pm

Beer taps in Ford Stadium > burning couches

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:18 pm

RGT voted against beer sales in UP so I doubt this will ever happen

03EMBA · Post by **03EMBA** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:19 pm

smupony94 wrote:We should start burning couches

Trust me on this one, take it outside first...

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:22 pm

smupony94 wrote:RGT voted against beer sales in UP so I doubt this will ever happen

RGT lost

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:26 pm

Need to show UP how much in sales tax revenue they will generate