Group who bought FAU stadium naming rights comes with controversy

I like the new name being touted - "Owlcatraz"

And once again, its all about the $$$$.

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Originally posted 01:42 PM ET  02.21 by BCSisnuts

And once again, its all about the $$$$.

You're right, of course. Florida's and the United States' prisons are subject to many of the same complaints yet their flags are flown at that stadium for free. It's not a big deal: just college students really needing something to complain about.

Guessing GEO couldn't come to an agreement with the U...? The match would've been much better.

so we've basically accepted the licensing of stadium names as general practice (whether privately or publicly funded)...but we're going to draw a line in the sand when we don't like the company that is proposing to pay to keep the lights on?

Liberals complain about everything. I'm sure all these prisoners are innocent!!!

They wanted to get the naming rights for the U (miami) or USC but those were taken.

Hate hate hate naming stadiums and bowl games after sponsors.

Save wrigley field.... but that's only bc it's been that for so long. Now days sponsors change so much that renaming seems to happen all the time. At least the rose bowl is "presented by....." which I can live with. Its the peach bowl becoming the chic fil a bowl and whatnot that I don't like.

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Originally posted 03:21 PM ET  02.21 by Varrick122657

Liberals complain about everything. I'm sure all these prisoners are innocent!!!

Not that you're complaining or anything

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Originally posted 01:27 PM ET  02.21 by SL Guido

I like the new name being touted - "Owlcatraz"

Methinks it'll stick, whatever may come next.

What kind of leadership can take a new stadium and turn it into a controversy? If I remember correctly this stadium was just built in the last couple of years. It was supposed to be the cornerstone of FAU's rise in athletics. Now they are saddled with Owlcatraz.

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Originally posted 04:42 PM ET  02.21 by DearbornSparty

What kind of leadership can take a new stadium and turn it into a controversy?

Please see Comment 3.

Well maybe FAU is hoping anyone watching a game there thinks the GEO Group makes cars.

Miami would have been a more appropriate FL school to have their football team sponsored by a prison.

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Originally posted 03:21 PM ET  02.21 by Varrick122657

Liberals complain about everything. I'm sure all these prisoners are innocent!!!

no, they are there for a reason. i like the illegal ("undocumented") immigrants getting free surgery and then complaining about the post-op care. geeeezzzz, go home. bottom line, fau needed money, geo wanted a stadium with their name on it. move on, damn dirty hippies.

undocumented immigrants are held for weeks or months on minor charges

I don't see a problem here.

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Originally posted 09:14 PM ET  02.21 by THE BISHOP!

undocumented immigrants are held for weeks or months on minor chargesI don't see a problem here.

FOR PROFIT PRISONS means you have to keep people locked up to make a profit. That unpaid traffic ticket might mean a trip behind bars.

The real problem is that legal citizens (blue collar workers) are locked away for drug charges so in a place like Florida that has a huge agriculture industry, illegal immigrants are brought in to do the work the guys locked up would be doing. It's profiting on a bogus system. Lock up someone on a bogus drug charge and lock up his replacement all to turn a profit.

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Originally posted 05:44 PM ET  02.21 by J.DA

Well maybe FAU is hoping anyone watching a game there thinks the GEO Group makes cars.

Well done. Lets hear it for another failed GM strategy to be a player in the small car market.