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Emmitto
02-22-2013, 01:55 AM
FAU sells their new stadium's naming rights to a sketchy for-profit prison company, $6M for 12 years. I wonder what the second best offer was.

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1933013
wgbgator
02-22-2013, 08:20 AM
I think the guy who owns it is an FAU alum, but it's still beyond creepy.
Emmitto
02-22-2013, 09:49 AM
I think the guy who owns it is an FAU alum, but it's still beyond creepy.

Yes, and former chair of FAU's board of trustees. Seems like he had this thing "locked up."
wgbgator
02-22-2013, 09:56 AM
Yes, and former chair of FAU's board of trustees. Seems like he had this thing "locked up."

I think they should embrace the theme. Everyone gets a commissary account at the stadium, where you can buy smokes and snacks. Toilets that have homemade alcohol concoctions, snitches, sodomy, the "whole 9 yards" if you will.
Swampmaster
02-22-2013, 10:24 AM
players at the U will be jealous. As a side benefit, when these players go to prison for something, will the private prison company get first priority?
tegator80
02-22-2013, 10:32 AM
A for-profit prison is a sponsor for a Miami-area university facility? Isn't the entire Miami-area a for-profit prison, or aspires to be?
GatorFanCF
02-22-2013, 11:37 AM
tegator80: exactly - it's a target rich environment. Dade County = fraud capital of USA
Emmitto
02-22-2013, 12:47 PM
I think they should embrace the theme. Everyone gets a commissary account at the stadium, where you can buy smokes and snacks. Toilets that have homemade alcohol concoctions, snitches, sodomy, the "whole 9 yards" if you will.

Hmm...it's growing on me. Good ol' hooch, filtered through worn socks. Not at stands or kiosks of course. Gotta meet in some dark corridor, and hope you don't get shanked.
MastaG8r
02-22-2013, 12:50 PM
A for-profit prison is a sponsor for a Miami-area university facility? Isn't the entire Miami-area a for-profit prison, or aspires to be?Brush up on your Florida geography tegator, Boca Raton is not in the "Miami area."
tegator80
02-22-2013, 02:17 PM
Brush up on your Florida geography tegator, Boca Raton is not in the "Miami area."

Only if you're not from around there. I would bet that most of us outsiders see it my way.
MastaG8r
02-22-2013, 02:38 PM
Only if you're not from around there. I would bet that most of us outsiders see it my way.Okay but most of you outsiders are wrong then - Boca is over an hour drive and two counties away from Miami. Saying FAU is in the Miami area is like saying UF is in the Jacksonville area.
wgbgator
02-22-2013, 02:40 PM
Okay but most of you outsiders are wrong then - Boca is over an hour drive and two counties away from Miami. Saying FAU is in the Miami area is like saying UF is in the Jacksonville area.

An argument UGA fans seem to enjoy making whenever they talk about moving the Cocktail Party after a long losing streak.
MastaG8r
02-22-2013, 02:44 PM
An argument UGA fans seem to enjoy making whenever they talk about moving the Cocktail Party after a long losing streak.Haha - that is true. Fair enough.
tegator80
02-22-2013, 04:46 PM
Okay but most of you outsiders are wrong then - Boca is over an hour drive and two counties away from Miami. Saying FAU is in the Miami area is like saying UF is in the Jacksonville area.

Is an hour drive from downtown Miami in the sticks or is there traffic up the wazoo? And are the natives just as New Jersey as Miami? I think we all know the answer. Now if you can say that Boca's beaches are not as "touristy" as South Miami Beach then okay, Boca is a 'Burb.