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No offense to you FO, but you are incorrect in your assessment. The title of the thread says that particular deal they had lined up is dead. If I meant to say FAU has "given up" I would have named it "FAU no longer seeking naming rights."

And as for the article, I honestly don't read any forced negativity in this one, other than the RBC deal is gone. Personally, I think you take a negative view on some of their articles because of your bias towards the PBP.

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CanadianOwl said

No offense to you FO, but you are incorrect in your assessment. The title of the thread says that particular deal they had lined up is dead. If I meant to say FAU has "given up" I would have named it "FAU no longer seeking naming rights."

And as for the article, I honestly don't read any forced negativity in this one, other than the RBC deal is gone. Personally, I think you take a negative view on some of their articles because of your bias towards the PBP.

Fair point, i agree…

but i stand by the fact that they are a negative reporting entity overall…

This is not news…and the fact that someone is digging through someones trash e-mails from three months ago and purporting it is news just goes to show you the level of thier "journalism"…FAU has no respect for the PBP…thats why they get nothing fresh…look at what she has to settle for…everytime she asks a question the reply is "no comment"…

we have better "reporting" here in the Nest…
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Well, this has gone from FAU actually "HAVING" the naming rights deal to arguing over the title of a msg board post. LOL. Good conversation though..

I think the main points we can take away are this:

  1. No matter how "in the dark" or "frustrated" some feel about FAU not keeping us up-to-date on stadium happenings, they are doing their work… and doing it well. They had a deal that unfortunately fell through. Who knows what other possibilities they have. After all, remember they did put out an RFP for catering rights… so they are still confident (or know something we don't) about the stadium in 2010
  2. The BOT meets Wednesday. Maybe an update then?
  3. Kim Miller, while digging up someone's e-mails, proved that there WERE conversations and e-mails going back and forth. FAU officials may not have come out and said "we had a $20 million deal but the bank pulled out," but the paper trail showed we were close to the deal…

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smittysahoot said

3) Kim Miller, while digging up someone's e-mails, proved that there WERE conversations and e-mails going back and forth. FAU officials may not have come out and said "we had a $20 million deal but the bank pulled out," but the paper trail showed we were close to the deal…

like i said…there are people here on this board who knew that three months ago…and for obvious reasons chose to say nothing about it…

why contribute to the nagativity?

which, here we are AGAIN…
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smittysahoot said

3) Kim Miller, while digging up someone's e-mails, proved that there WERE conversations and e-mails going back and forth. FAU officials may not have come out and said "we had a $20 million deal but the bank pulled out," but the paper trail showed we were close to the deal…

A done deal was never "reported" in the media, in the PBP or the SS. There was speculation of a deal but without confirmation from either side it remained just that, speculation. So I actually see this as pretty dogged reporting.

You can claim there is more information coming off this side, but without anything to back up a statement, they often are dismissed as rumors - especially when people chose not to divulge their sources.

Yes, quite a few of us new of the deal in the works months ago, but unfortunately for newspapers they have to confirm things before they report them.

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CanadianOwl said


A done deal was never "reported" in the media, in the PBP or the SS. There was speculation of a deal but without confirmation from either side it remained just that, speculation. So I actually see this as pretty dogged reporting.

You can claim there is more information coming off this side, but without anything to back up a statement, they often are dismissed as rumors - especially when people chose not to divulge their sources.

Yes, quite a few of us new of the deal in the works months ago, but unfortunately for newspapers they have to confirm things before they report them.

And yes, for those of us who knew something was going on, we didn't have anything on paper either.

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Lol.......
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RBC doesn't want us? Fine. Where is Toronto-Dominion Bank when you need them…after all they are rebranding all the Commerce Bank branches to TD Bank…why not help out their market awareness with a sweet stadium right in the heart of their territory.

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If the administration didn't keep on delaying the stadium we would have built it years sooner in a better economic environment. The BOT motion from 2007 specifically stated the (then pending) destruction of Lockhart as the reason for construction (not, say, a proper home for our team).

These excuses would not be acceptable if this were a business.

No dome
No 30k stadium
No convocation center
Hospital canceled
Still no Greek housing

It's on the way? Greek housing has been "on the way" for decades. The stadium has been needed since they day our football program was approved in the late 90s. For each failure there are legitimate excuses that were, to some degree, out of our hands, but bad luck is no excuse for failure.

If telling us to pray is the best the administration can do then there needs to be changes.

There have been no sponsors announced since SmileXpress this summer. See for yourself:

FAU - Stadium

Athletics has been very well-run on the field, but the fundraising and marketing of the stadium has been ABYSMAL.
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That's a great post LM77. You definitly put a lot of emotion and time into posting that. And while I don't agree with what you are saying, I can appreciate that you thought it out and put emotion into it.

If I may….

The dome wasn't going to happen from the start, even though I would have liked it. That was over a $150 million project. That was the "dream" scenario, just like we had the "dream" scenario in 2003 when we wanted to build a $28 million wellness and recreation facility.

The 30k stadium… I wouldn't give up on it quite yet…

No Convocation Center - this is true, and there probably won't be one for a while. But it came down to picking a project: Convo or Innovation Village. At least that's the way I see it. And with the $15 million sunk into the Convo, it was a well-done project that will carry us through the Jarvis era. The convo was going to be built for three reasons: basketball…. volleyball … graduations.  Basketball isn't drawing a full house…. ever…. except for one - maybe two games a season. Volleyball doesn't draw a full house - and most vball programs don't (although when I was a student, I went to vball games more than church). And our graduations aren't big enough for a Convo - and if they were - they would be painstakingly long.

Hospital canceled not on FAU's doing but on Boca medical center's doing.

Still no Greek housing… yes…. but there hasn't been a strong enough Greek system. And there's the catch 22:
Greeks: Build us a house and we'll get more numbers
Admin: Get more numbers and we'll build houses.

And part of this is the Greeks unwillingness to compromise in 2004 - 2005 when they were offered wings in current resident halls but didn't want to "earn" the trust of the administration because they "didn't want to cook their own food and couldn't paint the walls." In addition, the freshmen Greeks historically have been the "problem-childs" for RAs.

A lot of this stuff I'm over-anxious about too. But I'm trying to understand that these are multi-million projects. And while our neighboring universities might be able to secure huge projects, we can't. Why? Our alumni base and donor base isn't large enough. Hell….. a lot of people on this board probably aren't even Owl Club and/or FAU NAA members. And we want the community business to throw us millions?

We gotta start small and show that, for example… out of the 106,000 alumni FAU has, 10% are members of either the FAU NAA or the Owl Club. We're no where near that number right now.

And this isn't a shot at anyone on the board, so please don't take it that way, I'm just making observations.

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