FB: Liberty League

[union89]

Frank,
Have you heard anything about any of the guys injured against Muhlenburg (including Hovsepian), redshirting the '09 season??

[PBR...]

heard rpi is looking into this for the new stadium...

     Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The sports-business company owned by
the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. is joining with IMG Worldwide to sell premium seat
licenses, luxury suites and ticket services to the college
market.
     Legends Hospitality Management LLC and IMG entered into a
joint venture to help athletic directors and stadium operators
sell seat licenses, which are one-time fees that give fans a
transferable right to buy tickets, IMG, a global sports,
entertainment and media company, said in a news release.
     "The new partnership brings our college clients the
expertise and proven track record of two of the most successful
and popular sports franchises in the country," Ted Forstmann,
IMG's chairman and chief executive, said in the release.
     The new venture, named IMG-Legends, follows the opening of
the Cowboys' $1.2 billion stadium that was partly financed by a
seat-license program that exceeded the previous industry sales
record by five times, the release said. The National Football
League's Cowboys sold seat licenses priced as high as $150,000
in their new Arlington, Texas, stadium.
     "Our cutting-edge premium-seating plans and hospitality
packages were successful in generating significant revenue and
creating the best possible fan experience in our new stadium,"
Stephen Jones, chief operating officer of the Cowboys, said in a
statement. "We believe we can do the same for colleges and
universities."
     The partnership will initially focus on PSL programs. It
will also offer food and beverage, catering and merchandising
services through Legends. Dallas-based private equity firm CIC
Partners also owns part of Legends.

[Findtheball]

 That sounds like the NUTS

['gro]

LLPP Karma Strikes Again!

Just happened to turn to NFL Network HD (as Dlip would say for ****s and ****in giggles) and bam, it works. No longer blocked by the programming devils at comcast. The NFL in HD, it's truly a LLPP miracle.

Hey, remember that time gro won the lottery?

[JT]

JT just got back from a vendors meeting at one of his bigger customers.  Vendors are shrinking at a record pace.  Now we fill just a small AV conference room 200 or less.  Used to fill two big hotel conference rooms fully opened 800 - 1,000.  This ain't good, in spite of the fact that two direct competitors bit the dust.

JT got his fill of food and Makers Mark at the end of the day, but he's never been so worried.  Gonna keep fighting and trying to add services.

[union89]

DewCrew,
Please, please, please, please......please, pick Hobart over Union this weekend in your ATR prognostications.

Dew picked,
Ithaca 38.....Union 18 (Union actually avoided the MonkeyStomp and won the game 24-21)

Dew picked,
WPI 30........Union 18 (Union won 21-17)

For obvious reasons, please pick Hobart by 38 points vs. Union this weekend.

Damn you, DC!!!!

[pumkinattack]

Yeah DC! 

Also, nice mention of Cragg.  Everyone wants to talk about King or Audino, but Cragg is in his 15th season as HC (taking over beginning in 1995, his only losing season at 4-6) and will end the season at something above 100 wins vs. less than 50 (in theory).  I just looked it up and in the prior 15 years I counted 48 wins total.  Granted, I think Bill Maxwell had started to turn the program around before his tragedy and may deserve some credit (I didn't know him as a coach), but his stroke was the reason Cragg has the job and has been able to accomplish what he has. 

One more note while on Cragg's sack, the fake punts everyone fears because it's literally become a regular play the last decade or so (three times in the first three games) is not only effective in picking up first downs to continue drives or control possession, but it also leads to a neet gain on return yardage.  So, while penalties have been a big problem this year where opponents are picking up 20-40 yards/game, we pick up 5-10 (not a fair exchange) in that Bart's given up -.1 yards on punt returns and yet get f7 or 8 (don't know these stats off the top of my head).  That's why Vincent, who doesn't have the biggest boomer leg can kick 30-ish yard punts because they're always downed immediately as the other team has to prepared for a potential fake.  In my mind it's a pretty innovative way to pick up a few net yards per game. 

[Regulator]

JT just got back from a vendors meeting at one of his bigger customers.  Vendors are shrinking at a record pace.  Now we fill just a small AV conference room 200 or less.  Used to fill two big hotel conference rooms fully opened 800 - 1,000.  This ain't good, in spite of the fact that two direct competitors bit the dust.

JT got his fill of food and Makers Mark at the end of the day, but he's never been so worried.  Gonna keep fighting and trying to add services.

JT- Could it be that their is a restriction on travel and hotel cost that kept vendors back?  Even when the function is free, I've noticed many vendors not being able to make it places bc they are too stretched at work or not going due to incremental spend to get and stay places.

[JT]

JT just got back from a vendors meeting at one of his bigger customers.  Vendors are shrinking at a record pace.  Now we fill just a small AV conference room 200 or less.  Used to fill two big hotel conference rooms fully opened 800 - 1,000.  This ain't good, in spite of the fact that two direct competitors bit the dust.

JT got his fill of food and Makers Mark at the end of the day, but he's never been so worried.  Gonna keep fighting and trying to add services.

JT- Could it be that their is a restriction on travel and hotel cost that kept vendors back?  Even when the function is free, I've noticed many vendors not being able to make it places bc they are too stretched at work or not going due to incremental spend to get and stay places.

That's part of it.  But I've noticed a lot of locals fall off the face of the earth.  It also has too do with M & A.  Merged companies bring new leaders.  New leaders bring new vendors and drop old ones while changing purchasing policies.  Add in more govt regulations too.

The upside is the M & A give the company so many more products to promote.  They've got to spend at some point.  But its been a tough couple of years.  Thankfully, we can live off the smaller, more profitable jobs that the big guys won't even touch.

Watching the finance industry implode and stop marketing wasn't fun either.  I put together a marketing blog for our customers, and that seems to drive orders.  I'm just gonna keep plugging away, but once Dad hangs it up, I think I'm out too.

[labart96]

nice mention of Cragg.  Everyone wants to talk about King or Audino, but Cragg is in his 15th season as HC (taking over beginning in 1995, his only losing season at 4-6) and will end the season at something above 100 wins vs. less than 50 (in theory).  I just looked it up and in the prior 15 years I counted 48 wins total.  Granted, I think Bill Maxwell had started to turn the program around before his tragedy and may deserve some credit (I didn't know him as a coach), but his stroke was the reason Cragg has the job and has been able to accomplish what he has. 

TGP played under Coach Max's tenure at Hobart.  He was a pretty big pick up for the Statesmen given he had been the OC or QB coach (sorry, TGP is getting old and his memory hasn't fared well due to daily barrages of vino and bourbon) at Syracuse. 

Before he fell ill, TGP thinks that Coach Max did an incredile job and in effect, began the "modern/winning era" of Hobart Football which after an interim HC was brought in for part of the 94 season, was handed off to Cragg.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Cragg basically confirmed as much in an interview we did on ITH last season just before the Mount Union game.

After going 3-7 my FY, the F93 team upset #2 Buff St 10-3 and would have been the first Bart team to qualify for the NCAAs if not for SRT's darn Engineers.  The team ultimately declined the ECAC bid given it would have fallen on the Saturday of final exams for the fall term (back then HWS was on the tri-mester calendar).

That team also boasted Hobart's first ever first team All-American in Bill Palmer '94 at FS.

[PBR...]

pbr has to say, in using google chrome now for awhile and pbr is a big believer...uses a ton less memory than firefox/i.e. and so much faster....pbr sends a +k to google for a solid app...now pbr asks good WHERE IS MY WAVE INVITE!


EDIT: scratch that...pbr's friend the works for google just hit him up w/ a wave invite...

[SaintsFAN]

pbr has to say, in using google chrome now for awhile and pbr is a big believer...uses a ton less memory than firefox/i.e. and so much faster....pbr sends a +k to google for a solid app...now pbr asks good WHERE IS MY WAVE INVITE!


EDIT: scratch that...pbr's friend the works for google just hit him up w/ a wave invite...

pbr did you ever follow through with facebook?

[PBR...]

pbr has to say, in using google chrome now for awhile and pbr is a big believer...uses a ton less memory than firefox/i.e. and so much faster....pbr sends a +k to google for a solid app...now pbr asks good WHERE IS MY WAVE INVITE!


EDIT: scratch that...pbr's friend the works for google just hit him up w/ a wave invite...

pbr did you ever follow through with facebook?

roger that houston....

[JT]

pbr has to say, in using google chrome now for awhile and pbr is a big believer...uses a ton less memory than firefox/i.e. and so much faster....pbr sends a +k to google for a solid app...now pbr asks good WHERE IS MY WAVE INVITE!


EDIT: scratch that...pbr's friend the works for google just hit him up w/ a wave invite...

JT is trying chrome now.  JT isn't a professional browser scout but he thinks chrome has blazing speed.

[lewdogg11]

pbr has to say, in using google chrome now for awhile and pbr is a big believer...uses a ton less memory than firefox/i.e. and so much faster....pbr sends a +k to google for a solid app...now pbr asks good WHERE IS MY WAVE INVITE!


EDIT: scratch that...pbr's friend the works for google just hit him up w/ a wave invite...

JT is trying chrome now.  JT isn't a professional browser scout but he thinks chrome has blazing speed.

LD sometimes even has to use Firefox, IE, and Chrome on the same machine to login to the same application without being booted for work.  There are a few funny quirks but overall, it seems to be much faster and is just overall more sound.

And of course the incognito window comes in handy when the old lady takes is out for a few.  BRILLIANT!!!