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(07-03-2017 05:44 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 05:38 PM)#41 Wrote:  

(07-02-2017 11:52 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote:  

(07-02-2017 11:17 AM)KCat Wrote:  

(07-02-2017 11:03 AM)BeerCat Wrote:  We are talking about the name of a sports stadium right?

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Don't they usually get around this by calling it Nippert Field at 5/3 Stadium...

It's already called Carson Field.

I'm sure Dr. Arch Carson was a nice guy who did great things for the university, just like I'm sure Jimmy Nippert was a good kid. Not to sound callous, but neither one of those two are helping keep the lights on now that UC is stuck in a conference with a low-dollar media deal.

The two most monetizable assets of the football stadium are tied up by two dudes who have been dead for nearly 100 years. At some point, financial reality has to win out for UC athletics.

Sure Jimmy Nippert did nothing but die for UC Football. Then his family paid to build the original Nippert. Then Louise Nippert rebuilt Nippert from condemnation. Man you are clueless!

Like I said -- I'm not trying to be callous, but he wasn't a war hero, a great statesman, or a legend of the program. He was a dude with rich family who died young. And, what you see as "respect," I see as the program turning down millions of dollars (dollars the program desperately needs) to honor a guy who has been dead for a century and had more than his share of time on the side of the building.

I get that's I'm in the minority here, but some point, practicality has to win out. Stadiums are supposed to be revenue generators for sports programs, not giant tombstones in the center of campus.