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FAU Receives $6 Million Gift from The GEO Group to Name Football Stadium

Were getting our 15 minutes off of this but its already over, fau is still pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully the UM vs NCAA news is taking top billing now in the sports world.

Next controversy we have lets hope its like this!
ASU is suing a porn site "Sun Devil Angels" bc theyre using their likeness and brand. Theyre worried people will get the wrong idea of the school and apply for the wrong reasons…at Arizona State. They obviously dont know what the schools reputation is like outside of the professors lounge!  ;D
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Owl2Doc said



"FAU associates with human rights-violating prison company"
"FAU professor denies Sandy Hook Massacre"
"FAU campus on lockdown after armed gunmen robs student"

We're not exactly riding a PR wave right now.

At least we didn't hire Isiah Thomas!  ;)
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Owl2Doc said

I realize that this will blow over soon and we probably be won't be that much worse for the wear
but
I have to disagree with the idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity (for us).

As a higher education institution striving to be taken seriously we're fighting for academic prestige, research grants, increasing admissions statistics, large-scale donations and acceptance by the local community. I don't see how any of those things are improved by bad publicity.

"FAU associates with human rights-violating prison company"
"FAU professor denies Sandy Hook Massacre"
"FAU campus on lockdown after armed gunmen robs student"

We're not exactly riding a PR wave right now.

I get that beggars can't be choosers and some things can't be predicted or prevented. But as a fan, as an alumnus, as a person whose friends are constantly bringing up this kind of sh*t and I have to defend it, I'd just like to see FAU celebrated for its merits instead of constantly denigrated for its faults.

Having said that, I'm going to retire from this controversy and talk about something else.

Check back in 6 months and we'll see if anyone cares who sponsored the FAU stadium, I am pretty confident the resounding answer will be NO.  There might be a small discussion when the season opens but that will die out in a day or so.

GO OWLS!
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USMCOWL said

Dont know if its good or bad, but we made fox news website.

Florida school sells stadium naming rights to prison company | Fox News

Not too bad of an article actually. Again, where do people think law enforcement and members of the judicial system get their educations from. Usually Criminal Justice and then Law majors right, even at places like Harvard if I recall correctly! Seems like if anything this partners us closer on the prosecution side of the system which is - the State, and we are a State University!
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Someone mentioned that we made Jimmy Kimmel last night as part of his monologue.
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USMCOWL said

Someone mentioned that we made Jimmy Kimmel last night as part of his monologue.

Found this article on the Phil Steele site;

FAU sells stadium naming rights to for-profit prison operator

Not complimetary and VERY one sided.

Yes they and ALL companies have had their problems but to imply their facilities hold their inmates is wrong, it takes a court order to release a prisoner and THAT is the legal systems problem (or their lawyers). And where do people come off as shocked that this company makes a profit off of prisoners, do they think these are non-profit run - hell it is a publically traded corporation, not the Salvation Army!

It has been the governments choice to get out of the prison business, it is a tough one dealing with CRIMINALS, why do you think the governement is trying to get out of that business - MANY PROBLEMS have and always will exist!
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dusky256fc said

Check back in 6 months and we'll see if anyone cares who sponsored the FAU stadium, I am pretty confident the resounding answer will be NO.  There might be a small discussion when the season opens but that will die out in a day or so.

+1

99.9% of sports fans in the US don't care about FAU so they care even less about a university's stadium that they have never heard of.  As Owl Fans we search key words to find any sliver of a mention in the national news.  No one else really cares.  Let's go undefeated for about 3 years and maybe someone will take notice.

The rest of the sports world has already moved on and are looking for the next odd thing to write about to hopefully get their name noticed for 20 more seconds.
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We just had a prime time story on CNBC and they showed our stadium for at least a 30 second story.  They said that the sponsor was in bad taste, however the CEO of GEO is an alum and is giving 6 Million to FAU over 12 Years.  Hey, might be somewhat bad press, but I love it!

Maybe in a couple of months nobody will care, however right now we will take the press.  At least our program is on the up and up and we are not doing anything illegal like other teams in the NCAA ;)

GO OWLS!
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OWL4EVER said

We just had a prime time story on CNBC and they showed our stadium for at least a 30 second story.  They said that the sponsor was in bad taste, however the CEO of GEO is an alum and is giving 6 Million to FAU over 12 Years.  Hey, might be somewhat bad press, but I love it!

Maybe in a couple of months nobody will care, however right now we will take the press.  At least our program is on the up and up and we are not doing anything illegal like other teams in the NCAA ;)

GO OWLS!
This is true, at most outside groups like the ACLU "aka getting rid of religion, and attacks on Christmas" will protest, but it was a business move.
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OWL4EVER said

We just had a prime time story on CNBC and they showed our stadium for at least a 30 second story.  They said that the sponsor was in bad taste, however the CEO of GEO is an alum and is giving 6 Million to FAU over 12 Years.  Hey, might be somewhat bad press, but I love it!

Maybe in a couple of months nobody will care, however right now we will take the press.  At least our program is on the up and up and we are not doing anything illegal like other teams in the NCAA ;)

GO OWLS!

The fact that this is even STILL a news story to some people is so dumb.  There are actual important things that can be reported on rather than an alum of a local college giving the school a gift.

Can we stop with all this fake outrage over something nobody really cares about already?  That's what annoys me most of all.  It's all so phony.  It's a nothing story.  Basically nobody cares what FAU names their stadium and very few people ACTUALLY care about the treatment of prisoners.  There is a reason that the one group protesting this is some small-time organization with a Facebook petition with a minimal amount of signatures…Nobody cares!  But this gets publicity because it makes for a funny line at the end of a news report.  Oh well.  The story will fade away soon enough.
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