Tailgating by students no longer supported by UM

[thisismyusername]

see, these are problems we never had at FIU tailgates!

 

[GenericYesMan]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Typical answer for this entitled generation. How about act like an adult, find your own way to and from the stadium, drink and have a blast but don't pass out in a Port-O-Potty before kickoff. It's called accountability.

Hire licensed bartenders and provide access to food and water? GTFOH

Has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with covering the university if one of these kids "finds their own way to and from the stadium" and plows into a family in a mini van drunk off their *** after parking/tailgating in a student/university reserved parking lot.

But yeah, **** on millennials for some odd reason.

Uber. Or should the school pay for that too?

How are you so stupid you don't see this as only a legal issue?

Has literally nothing to do with the students and everything to do with the university not wanting to chance kids getting dangerous while partying in "official University of Miami lots".

But yeah MUH MILLENNIALZ R LAZY N SPOILD is a fire take you should keep running with.

 

[Tad Footeball]

I actually think it says a lot about our student body that we've had decent student attendance since the move to Hard Kok and we haven't heard of any DUI related post-game deaths in all those years. Like I said, if you move the games to essentially another county for these kids then you need to adapt FOR them not for yourself (the school) out of legal/image based fears that limit their fun. And if your solution is that underage kids shouldn't be drinking at football games anyway then just touch base when you return from Fantasy World.

 

[g8rh8rMD]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Get a clue. Buses are already provided to and from campus.

I've seen the pics of students standing in long lines waiting for a bus, haven't you? Sorry if putting the word convenient in all caps hid it from your view.

And this isn't about entitlement, it's about common sense, safety, and what's best for the University and student body. Nobody is asking for the government to pay for the buses, but that's part of the compromise when you have an off campus stadium like this, and the students pay "athletic fees" to be able to go to games. Have tailgates, have great ones, it's just not that hard to do them responsibly. All I'm saying is that a frat or other student organization should have to do more than show up with a van and ten kegs to throw a tailgate party. Hire a dang bartender and someone to man a grill and serve burgers. It's better than shutting it down and forcing the whole thing "underground", isn't it?

Instead, what the school did is say that they don't really care what happens to the students, as long as they can't be held responsible/liable for it. Which they still will be anyway. It's short sighted and lazy thinking. Intelligent compromise is readily achievable here. I guaranty you the police are not pleased with this.

 

[Tad Footeball]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Get a clue. Buses are already provided to and from campus.

Riding a bus TO the game ain't exactly tailgate conducive. Unless you're the kinda dude that just shows up on Saturdays with a sixer of Miller Lite with two already missing.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

 

[Calinative]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Typical answer for this entitled generation. How about act like an adult, find your own way to and from the stadium, drink and have a blast but don't pass out in a Port-O-Potty before kickoff. It's called accountability.

Hire licensed bartenders and provide access to food and water? GTFOH

Has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with covering the university if one of these kids "finds their own way to and from the stadium" and plows into a family in a mini van drunk off their *** after parking/tailgating in a student/university reserved parking lot.

But yeah, **** on millennials for some odd reason.

Uber. Or should the school pay for that too?

Thats ******* stupid. Do you konw how much an Uber would cost to the stadium? Its a ******* 40min bus ride.

 

[g8rh8rMD]

I actually think it says a lot about our student body that we've had decent student attendance since the move to Hard Kok and we haven't heard of any DUI related post-game deaths in all those years. Like I said, if you move the games to essentially another county for these kids then you need to adapt FOR them not for yourself (the school) out of legal/image based fears that limit their fun. And if your solution is that underage kids shouldn't be drinking at football games anyway then just touch base when you return from Fantasy World.

Totally agreed on the underage drinking part. What you can do, though, is make for a fun, responsible atmosphere for legal drinking and partying, while understanding that illegal drinking is going to happen at the same time. Those who want to drink illegally in that scenario are either going to get busted right away, or are going to be mature enough to get away with it and handle it without causing problems. What you can't have, though, is a free for all where it's ok for 17 and 18 year olds to get so drunk at the stadium that they're puking on people's cars and passing out in porta potties, or getting in to fatal DUI wrecks on the way back to campus.

It's not an either or. And if there's not some reasonable limits, I'm afraid the next thing that happens is the stadium stops selling alcohol at Canes games. Hopefully the lease with the Dolphins doesn't allow for that though. Cause that would suck, I plan on getting black out on Saturday night,... and then taking an Uber back to my hotel.

 

[acento]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Typical answer for this entitled generation. How about act like an adult, find your own way to and from the stadium, drink and have a blast but don't pass out in a Port-O-Potty before kickoff. It's called accountability.

Hire licensed bartenders and provide access to food and water? GTFOH

Has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with covering the university if one of these kids "finds their own way to and from the stadium" and plows into a family in a mini van drunk off their *** after parking/tailgating in a student/university reserved parking lot.

But yeah, **** on millennials for some odd reason.

Uber. Or should the school pay for that too?

How are you so stupid you don't see this as only a legal issue?

Has literally nothing to do with the students and everything to do with the university not wanting to chance kids getting dangerous while partying in "official University of Miami lots".

But yeah MUH MILLENNIALZ R LAZY N SPOILD is a fire take you should keep running with.

I understand exactly what its about. My problem is the response of "If you don't want me to get drunk, act like and ******* and maybe kill somebody than you should provide me with more convenient transportation, food and water and professional bartenders."

If you don't understand the underlying issue with that, then you've proven my point.

 

[Gables Canes]

So now are we going to see a half empty student section on Saturday night?

 

[Calinative]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Get a clue. Buses are already provided to and from campus.

You can't bring anything on those buses. Anyone that is tailgating only takes those buses back, plus those buses only leave like 2 hrs before the game and it takes like 40mins to get there.

But the problem is if you don't get the designated spots and the fraternities and **** aren't allowed to take buses to the game or whatever then that is going to lead to a LOT of people driving to the game to bring the alcohol and ****. Those people that are driving NEED to drive back because you can't leave your car overnight. So literally the school, by taking away Frat buses and ****, are literally making it less safe for the students who choose to tailgate.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

So now are we going to see a half empty student section on Saturday night?

Not likely.

Idiotic question, though. If this keeps students from coming to the game, then they’re are bunch of entitled pussies anyway.

 

[Tad Footeball]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

I get your general sentiment about responsibility but it seems like the school is eschewing theirs here- not even to the students but to the image/liability concerns they initially sought to protect.

Wasn't the idea of herding all the students together in separate lots designed TO keep tabs on them? What I bet happened is that they weren't satisfied with the police acting as drinking age monitors and now have decided just to wash their hands of the student lot idea. Think that's going to work out better in the liability/image column as kids just scatter across various lots and their binge drinking blends in even better?

Like I said, the school just needs to accept reality while also doing the best to cover their own asses. This seems way too shortsighted and hamfisted.

 

[Calinative]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

You clearly have no idea how the bus system works.

 

[acento]

Thanks for sharing rok. This is a pathetic and gutless move with negative consequences (unintended or otherwise) that will far outweigh any benefit. The answer is so simple too. Provide CONVENIENT transport to and from campus, require student organizations who want to host tailgate parties to hire licensed bartenders, and to provide access to food and water.

Typical answer for this entitled generation. How about act like an adult, find your own way to and from the stadium, drink and have a blast but don't pass out in a Port-O-Potty before kickoff. It's called accountability.

Hire licensed bartenders and provide access to food and water? GTFOH

Has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with covering the university if one of these kids "finds their own way to and from the stadium" and plows into a family in a mini van drunk off their *** after parking/tailgating in a student/university reserved parking lot.

But yeah, **** on millennials for some odd reason.

Uber. Or should the school pay for that too?

Thats ******* stupid. Do you konw how much an Uber would cost to the stadium? Its a ******* 40min bus ride.

Yeah I know how much a ******* Uber costs to the stadium. Know how? Cause I live near campus and have taken an Uber when I want to go to a game and have a few drinks. Its called sacrifice **** face.

 

[acento]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

This x 1,000,000

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

You clearly have no idea how the bus system works.

You mean it’s not like being chauffeured to the stadium. Believe me I have an idea of how it works. It’s transportation. That’s it. And if you don’t like it try to improve that. Work on that. Instead of bītching about not being provided a safe space to get blind drunk

 

[g8rh8rMD]

Typical answer for this entitled generation. How about act like an adult, find your own way to and from the stadium, drink and have a blast but don't pass out in a Port-O-Potty before kickoff. It's called accountability.

Hire licensed bartenders and provide access to food and water? GTFOH

Has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with covering the university if one of these kids "finds their own way to and from the stadium" and plows into a family in a mini van drunk off their *** after parking/tailgating in a student/university reserved parking lot.

But yeah, **** on millennials for some odd reason.

Uber. Or should the school pay for that too?

How are you so stupid you don't see this as only a legal issue?

Has literally nothing to do with the students and everything to do with the university not wanting to chance kids getting dangerous while partying in "official University of Miami lots".

But yeah MUH MILLENNIALZ R LAZY N SPOILD is a fire take you should keep running with.

I understand exactly what its about. My problem is the response of "If you don't want me to get drunk, act like and ******* and maybe kill somebody than you should provide me with more convenient transportation, food and water and professional bartenders."

If you don't understand the underlying issue with that, then you've proven my point.

No dude, you're completely missing the point. It means instead of being a bunch of puzzies and taking away the party space altogether, the school should simply institute some reasonable restrictions on the organizations who want to use that space to throw a party. What kind of a-hole throws a tailgate without having some kind of food anyway? What kind of d!ck throws a tailgate in a parking lot in south florida and doesn't have water? How frickin big a deal is it to ask a frat throwing a party at the stadium to either have a DD or hire a driver to get their tailgate truck home? Why is it too much to ask the University who decided to have a stadium this far from campus, yet charges how much per year in tuition and athletics fees, to arrange for a transportation system for the students that doesn't require them to stand in long lines and wait forever to get back to campus?

Dude, I get the entitlement thing, I AM that guy. But this isn't about that. It's about wanting the students to be at the games, to be liquored up and rowdy and have a great time, in a way that doesn't endanger them, the University, or my experience.

 

[GenericYesMan]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

I get your general sentiment about responsibility but it seems like the school is eschewing theirs here- not even to the students but to the image/liability concerns they initially sought to protect.

Wasn't the idea of herding all the students together in separate lots designed TO keep tabs on them? What I bet happened is that they weren't satisfied with the police acting as drinking age monitors and now have decided just to wash their hands of the student lot idea. Think that's going to work out better in the liability/image column as kids just scatter across various lots and their binge drinking blends in even better?

Like I said, the school just needs to accept reality while also doing the best to cover their own asses. This seems way too shortsighted and hamfisted.

Probably because suddenly they're staring two 8 PM games at home in a 7 day stretch, plus like it or not they don't want the students to **** up a potential Gameday appearance next week with some incident and **** we could be playing 3 straight night games at home if Virginia wins the next two weeks too.

So yeah, they should have seen this potentially coming in the offseason, especially with VT and Notre Dame coming in back to back weeks.

 

[Calinative]

Take the school provided transportation and STFU you bunch of entitled puzzies.

The school has a legal responsibility to itself and can’t coddle babies that don’t know how to handle their booze.

Students can still get to games the same way they always have.

Students can drink, if they choose to do so, like they always have. They just can’t do it anymore in a University sanctioned special area set aside just for them. Makes sense from a liability standpoint. It’s a grownup world with grownup rules, kiddies. Nobody wants to assume liability for your fūcked up and irresponsible behavior, nor should they have to.

Get your sorry asses to the game.

Don’t drink and drive.

Drink responsibly if you can’t handle your liquor or don’t drink at all.

Welcome to the real world, motherfūckers, where actions have consequences.

I get your general sentiment about responsibility but it seems like the school is eschewing theirs here- not even to the students but to the image/liability concerns they initially sought to protect.

Wasn't the idea of herding all the students together in separate lots designed TO keep tabs on them? What I bet happened is that they weren't satisfied with the police acting as drinking age monitors and now have decided just to wash their hands of the student lot idea. Think that's going to work out better in the liability/image column as kids just scatter across various lots and their binge drinking blends in even better?

Like I said, the school just needs to accept reality while also doing the best to cover their own asses. This seems way too shortsighted and hamfisted.

Yeah this is it. This rule isn't going to stop the drinking/binge drinking. Its just going to make it worse for most other tailgaters, and actually its probably going to lead to more students getting wild. Students definitely kept it at least a little under control because there were constantly police riding around on bikes by all the tailgates. So a lot of students that were getting too wild often got detained.