Yes you’ve mentioned that I supported haith… several times - How dare I support a TU coach!
THIS^ If the perspective of the skyline is so distracting to you that you would decide not to go to a game...the problem isn't the floor...it's you. It's new and a little different and it's trying to tie into the marketing mantra of the last 2-3 years that this is Tulsa's team. BTW Aston, if you haven't been back to Tulsa in a few years, you'd realize there have been a good number of additions to the Tulsa skyline, particularly on the north side of downtown around the OneOk Field developments. BTW, the Tulsa skyline from OneOK is amazing...but it's still 2nd place as I consider the best view of downtown Tulsa to be from the steps of McFarlin Library overlooking the Hardesty Sports complex with downtown framed in the background. You catch it at the right time during sunset and it's a work of art in real life
I know why you point it out. You don’t realize that I simply don’t care about your opinion of me.
I know that. In my opinion the best view of downtown is from the TU football Press box. Followed by from McFarlin. Those views look nothing like this skyline (though I can see aesthetically why they would include a couple more buildings that you don’t see from those views)
No one is coming to a game because of the floor. It might be a small factor in terms of fan retention.
I knew you'd find a way to prove to yourself you are right. Our bad opinions are not bad, and they have not led to a middling program. The Universities decisions have. And the opinion of the persons who selected the court(not mine or any other posters) at the university, has nothing to do with the program being middling. They could have painted an identical court to Memphis over the years and it wouldn't affect the quality of the program, middling or not.
Bro. You don’t go to games, you don’t give money to TU, you complain about everything TU does (athletically or academically), and you like to toot your own horn at every chance possible. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone else is wrong.
I don’t think it’s supposed to be a true skyline but more showing all of the buildings in downtown in rough N/S placement.
The floor looks good, and I'm glad to see that the newly emphasized theme "TU is Tulsa's team" is
Brad and Chet Cadieux (does he still run QT?) graduated together and were friends in HS so there is a pre-existing relationship there, in addition to the fact that I suspect Brad, being Brad, has now tried to meet and know every business owner with a business over $10m in the Tulsa metro as part of his presidentially duties...
OK...you have no idea how economics at a university works. They did completely revamp most of the Student Union dining commons and the food offerings. It's actually pretty good and probably a lot more than what one could reasonably expect at a university the size of TU. Second, they have redone the Pat Case Dining Center (formerly the cafeteria from Saved by the Bell) at least 2x since I left TU as a member of the housing staff. They're not going to ever eliminate the dining requirement for FR and SO as long as they have an on campus living requirement for FR and SO.
Never had an issue with the student union. The offerings there were always good and presumably have gotten better. The problem was the cafeteria was very mediocre most of the time, and the meal plans forced you to eat there as a FR and SO. It sucked as an engineering student having to go across campus for inferior food when the student union was right next door.
At least the atmosphere in the dining hall is better than what it used to be and more than a HS cafeteria which is what it was like from the time I was a student in the 90s until I stopped working at TU in 2008. From my time working in housing and dining at TU and ORU (who is also a Sodexo school) and having a direct supervisor with a keen understanding of dining operations, they do what they are able to do. Meal plan pricing is a balance of keeping costs down where they can, projecting how much food they should make for any given meal, and providing the best quality they can and finding the price point where it doesn't become the sorest of sticking points. The 2 areas with the most complaints on ANY college campus is housing and dining. Why? Because it's not your own bedroom and home and your mom/dad are not cooking every meal that is tailored to what you like. Plus when you're prepping a meal for potentially 1000 diners every meal, of course there is a little bit of loss of the home cooked quality. Believe it or not, when I worked at Baylor in 1998-1999, the food in the cafeterias was way worse than TU (and more expensive on the a la carte side).
You know when you write junk like this it's just like a sound of cicadas to me. I just tune it out.
Bro, you go to games and you give money.... and it has been (mostly) wasted. Congratulations?
You think I'm the only person who feels that way? You can cry about it and get your feelings hurt, or you can realize that it's the reality for a lot of people who you are trying to attend a game. Keep alienating fans because they don't wear the same shade of Blue and Gold glasses that you do. Smart.
But I do, or you wouldn't write that.
I don't think so. I'm just looking for being right more often than being wrong within a span of 1-2 years. Also, this has nothing ultimately to do with the court design.... which I couldn't really give a damn about other than it irks me that the major building that dominates the skyline is off.
TU doesn't administer loans...
A) You are wrong. They administer Perkins Loans. Look it up. It's jointly administered by the Uni and the Government, and it won't be discharged under the new program.
There's no doubt being an alum and fan of TU has been hard. Pretty much every decision Janet Levitt made was an affront to humanity. 18 years of Wojick and 12 years of Frank are unforgivable. You'd be hard pressed to be more pissed at TU than I was. But there's a new guy at the top and he's not responsible for what happened before him. I think we should try to suspend disbelief and approach this with a neutral viewpoint. Can't carry the baggage of prior regimes around forever. Nobody has to wear blue and gold glasses but I'm trying to at least not assume everything is crap, which was a reasonable approach for quite a while, but I'm being open to seeing what will happen.
Cool. I'm not mad about the loan itself. I'm mad about what it was necessary for.... and even if it did expire for new loan seekers.... it's still being paid by myself and others from my generation.
If he wasn't whining he wouldn't know what to do with himself. He picks an underdog school and whines when they lose. If he wanted to pay a bunch of money and whine about losing & paying, why didn't he pick Rice. It would have made him happier.(He couldn't be much whinier though.) I like how his ego tells him he's the biggest fan. Nobody does it better...
I did not go to Tulsa because of their athletic program. I find it funny that Tulsa is apparently the only program in the country where fans aren't allowed to be critical of the program. Heck, at state schools if they suffer one unexpected loss half the fanbase is gathering pitchforks.
You should go look at the threads from when we lost the home opener in football last year and most of the basketball games this year.
I'm not whiny about everything. As I've said many times, I don't complain much about the football program. I think the difference between me and other people is likely that I care TOO MUCH about the basketball program and how has been handled. It's mostly because I want the program to realize the potential we all know it has. (Partially, because it's more plausible to have basketball success for a school of our size and profile than it is football)
Think about this - the top 5 list of "bad" things at TU doesn't even include the drunk school president who peed in the bushes. If that doesn't make your top 5, you know you've had serious problems.
It was a good move by Carson, but he might be in trouble with Huffy now!
I understand what you are saying, and share some of the same frustrations like we all do, but after reading the same complaints for the 998th time it just gets old.
