OSU Rents OU Basketball Arena For A Pep Rally

Submitted by winterblue75 on

What the hell OU??

 

 

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2016/09/74030/ohio-st…

 

 

 

Next up for the horde? A sold-out pep rally at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, also known as the place where the Sooners play their home basketball games.
Ohio State has rented out the Lloyd Noble Center on Saturday for a pre-game pep rally, which is sold out https://t.co/1Mt8ZYqzpz — Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) September 12, 2016
That's right. The Ohio State Alumni Association rented the home team's arena for a sold-out pep rally before kickoff Saturday night.
 
 
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September 12th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^

Who cares? But I wonder how much OU charged them? Could be a nice chunk of change for an otherwise empty arena. I don't want Michigan to rent out their facilities for that reason but I think OU likely made a nice buck on this



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September 12th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^

He: Would you sleep with me for one million dollars?

She: One million dollars? Really? Of course I                   would.

He: Would you sleep with me for ten dollars?

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Owl

September 12th, 2016 at 1:36 PM ^

I don't understand how this looks bad for Oklahoma. Playing a football against them doesn't mean you have to be petty and difficult to deal with. It's a pep rally that won't affect the game, and they're just being hospitable hosts.

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Fieldy'sNuts

September 12th, 2016 at 1:52 PM ^

Yeah, but Ohio State's basketball arena is still named Value City Furniture Arena. There's no changing that. 

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M-Dog

September 12th, 2016 at 1:49 PM ^

Admit it, if this was us we'd be crowing all over the place about how big a damn deal we are.

So good for OSU.  I blame Oklahoma for giving it up so easily.  Tell OSU to go find a VFW Hall somewhere.

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NeilGoBlue

September 12th, 2016 at 2:01 PM ^

I agree the optics are weird, because it's the basketball arena, but we do the same thing and rent out parts of the golf course to opposing teams alumni tailgate. 

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Kewaga.

September 12th, 2016 at 2:45 PM ^

(An OSU alum, whom I've know since middle school and that lived a street away growing up and whose father played football for OSU.  When her father learned I was accepted to UofM... He banned me from their house-seriously- I had to scamper out the back when he came home)

 

OSU rents OU basketball area for prep rally... good for you.  Didn't think you guys were bright enough to pull something like that off.  Good luck, want you undereated when we come to town.

 

 

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Kewaga.

September 12th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^

no thankfully it said undefeated.... (I smoked... day off)

 

 

PS: Damn you for locking that in, was just correcting that when I got "access denied!"

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Bando Calrissian

September 12th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^

They're sending their band. That means they rented out the arena to hold their "Skull Session" pep rally before the game, which they usually do at St. John Arena next to the 'Shoe.

I went with the MMB (opposing team bands always go, well at least used to, because the MMB stopped going), and honestly, it's the closest thing to fascism I've ever experienced. When Tressel and the team came in, after the OSUMB did their thing in their military-inspected uniforms... I was pretty sure we were going to be killed. 

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