THE IUP Football Thread

[IUP24]

FYI - Tort's favorite store on campus has nearly all its brand-name merchandise (Nike, etc.) at 40% (or more) off this week and next. It's the annual "we gotta get rid of all this overpriced stuff before the school year ends' sale.

The nice windbreakers that are usually $87 are now in the $40s ...same with the polo shirts and sweatshirts.


Remember, nothing gets that football team more pumped up than looking up in to the bleachers and seeing fans wearing IUP gear from the Co-Op Store.

Whatever happened to the team flash sales that Nike offered for IUP? That used to be how you could get the team specific branded apparel that you never see in the Co-op store. They just have generic gear there. You could also get the “IUP” logo that only the football team uses. Can’t ever get that anywhere else. They used to do flash sales it seemed like every month for a different team.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Somebody needs to sneak in on the 29th and spray paint “Property of IUP” on the stupid rock.

If Tort goes 3 straight that's a big thing. It hasn't been done too many times in the series.

They get juiced for that trip. All those jackass gym teachers get real excited when the big team visits.

[IUPNation]

IUP's game at Slippery Rock on Sept. 30 will kick off at 6 p.m.

Somebody needs to sneak in on the 29th and spray paint “Property of IUP” on the stupid rock.

[Bart]

Franklin being an elementary school actually explains a lot about its interior layout compared to most of the other buildings. I always thought some of the staircases, hallways, and classroom placements seemed odd. That said I am not a huge fan of it and preferred Old Science out of the two elder buildings still used for classes. Although that may because I took more history electives than math electives.

I didn’t necessarily suggest tearing down the older dorms, more pointing out that a few of them are still very “retro.” When I lived in Kile Apartments (which were off-campus units owned by some housing company that were leased by the university but no longer seem to be so) we had to do our laundry in Schuylkill. The basement sincerely reminded me of the kind of place Robocop would go searching for criminals.

I had most of my classes in Navy in the seventies, and the insides of Navy, Old Science, and Ben Franklin are unrecognizable to me now. The renovations made them more claustrophobic inside.

Kile apartments was purchased by the BU Foundation in 2019.

[TheBigCat2192]

Franklin had a renovation completed in the spring of 2008, and Navy had $4.3 million rehabilitation, which was completed in the spring of 2006. I recall both being taken off the chopping block for historical reasons. Franklin had an elementary school, and Navy hosted naval training programs for flight instructors and officers during WWII, the building was turned over to them to serve as their official headquarters and to provide space for offices, classrooms and storage.

Residential housing has always been a problem due to lack of beds. Now with enrollment declining, that problem has gone away. What you don't see is moth balled dorms or housing scheduled for demolition, as is the case at our sisters schools. In the seventies everyone complained that construction should be planned for housing, instead of relying on the town apartments. Now the town is hurting for tenants, and no dorms have been demolished in over 40 years.

Franklin being an elementary school actually explains a lot about its interior layout compared to most of the other buildings. I always thought some of the staircases, hallways, and classroom placements seemed odd. That said I am not a huge fan of it and preferred Old Science out of the two elder buildings still used for classes. Although that may because I took more history electives than math electives.

I didn’t necessarily suggest tearing down the older dorms, more pointing out that a few of them are still very “retro.” When I lived in Kile Apartments (which were off-campus units owned by some housing company that were leased by the university but no longer seem to be so) we had to do our laundry in Schuylkill. The basement sincerely reminded me of the kind of place Robocop would go searching for criminals.

[Bart]

Bloomsburg is a curious case when it comes to facilities management. They spent a good amount of money to build a new on-campus apartment building about 5 years ago (named after the former president who oversaw both our highest enrollment ever and a steady decline after) with a mix of regular and suite style apartments over the old University Store and have done a lot of internal renovations to various buildings. Most notably retooling Elwell Hall to serve as the main Residence Life offices and adding common rooms with a lot of seating, tables, and TV to every floor and overhauling Sutliff Hall (where most college of business classes are) with a lot of stone, glass, dark wood, conference rooms, and even a stock ticker. Sutliff’s not the Hilton or anything but it looks more like a business-oriented hotel inside than an academic building; at least outside of the classrooms. On the other hand Schuylkill and Montour Hall dorms haven’t had any major work done in years and a few of the academic buildings like Benjamin Franklin (old), Bakeless Center (confusingly laid out), and Navy Hall (both old and ugly blocky) probably would be better off torn down or renovated. Franklin especially seems pointless since it only houses math and computer science which could probably be moved to either the newer science building (Hartline) or next door to Navy Hall if tearing that down isn’t an option.

Franklin had a renovation completed in the spring of 2008, and Navy had $4.3 million rehabilitation, which was completed in the spring of 2006. I recall both being taken off the chopping block for historical reasons. Franklin had an elementary school, and Navy hosted naval training programs for flight instructors and officers during WWII, the building was turned over to them to serve as their official headquarters and to provide space for offices, classrooms and storage.

Residential housing has always been a problem due to lack of beds. Now with enrollment declining, that problem has gone away. What you don't see is moth balled dorms or housing scheduled for demolition, as is the case at our sisters schools. In the seventies everyone complained that construction should be planned for housing, instead of relying on the town apartments. Now the town is hurting for tenants, and no dorms have been demolished in over 40 years.

[TheBigCat2192]

The campus that sticks out to me is California. It doesn't even look like the same place it was 20 years ago. It's nice down there now. The town is the killer. It's like having a school on one end of Clymer. Cal used to be like a hodge-podge of different looking buildings, etc. The did a terrific job in the demolition/rebuilding.

IUP has a few that still need to come down (Elkin, for one). Others need serious updates (or torn down) -- Zink, Ackerman, Pratt, Memorial Field House.

The Field House likely will never be torn down as it was dedicated as a war memorial, etc., but it has become a major eye soar. It needs some major sprucing up - interior and exterior. I still think the basketball teams should play one game a year over there. It's been several years now. IUP played Shippensburg in the Field House in 2018 on a Saturday night and it was a really cool evening. It was certainly a Memory Lane trip.

Bloomsburg is a curious case when it comes to facilities management. They spent a good amount of money to build a new on-campus apartment building about 5 years ago (named after the former president who oversaw both our highest enrollment ever and a steady decline after) with a mix of regular and suite style apartments over the old University Store and have done a lot of internal renovations to various buildings. Most notably retooling Elwell Hall to serve as the main Residence Life offices and adding common rooms with a lot of seating, tables, and TV to every floor and overhauling Sutliff Hall (where most college of business classes are) with a lot of stone, glass, dark wood, conference rooms, and even a stock ticker. Sutliff’s not the Hilton or anything but it looks more like a business-oriented hotel inside than an academic building; at least outside of the classrooms. On the other hand Schuylkill and Montour Hall dorms haven’t had any major work done in years and a few of the academic buildings like Benjamin Franklin (old), Bakeless Center (confusingly laid out), and Navy Hall (both old and ugly blocky) probably would be better off torn down or renovated. Franklin especially seems pointless since it only houses math and computer science which could probably be moved to either the newer science building (Hartline) or next door to Navy Hall if tearing that down isn’t an option.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

State Police in Butler have already submitted for approval for OT.

They sure do get excited up there when IUP visits.

This past season Joe drew a crowd of 2,412 ... more than 4x their season average.

Two years ago, Tort drew a crowd of 9,317 (8,500 of which left in the third quarter during IUP's 48-21 blowout victory).


Ironically, I think the basketball game had way more than the 2,412 they announced ... and, I don't think that football game had anywhere near the announced 9,317.

[Fightingscot82]

IUP's game at Slippery Rock on Sept. 30 will kick off at 6 p.m.

State Police in Butler have already submitted for approval for OT.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUP's game at Slippery Rock on Sept. 30 will kick off at 6 p.m.

[IUPNation]

The campus that sticks out to me is California. It doesn't even look like the same place it was 20 years ago. It's nice down there now. The town is the killer. It's like having a school on one end of Clymer. Cal used to be like a hodge-podge of different looking buildings, etc. The did a terrific job in the demolition/rebuilding.

IUP has a few that still need to come down (Elkin, for one). Others need serious updates (or torn down) -- Zink, Ackerman, Pratt, Memorial Field House.

The Field House likely will never be torn down as it was dedicated as a war memorial, etc., but it has become a major eye soar. It needs some major sprucing up - interior and exterior. I still think the basketball teams should play one game a year over there. It's been several years now. IUP played Shippensburg in the Field House in 2018 on a Saturday night and it was a really cool evening. It was certainly a Memory Lane trip.

Knock down Zink and the gut the Field House and put a new addition on to it where Zink stood to have a state of the art athletic phrdicsl education facility.

They need to shake down Mr. YouTube.

[IUPNation]

I was there. It wasn’t as stuffy as some events there, LOL. It was a little pricey to get in thought tat $10 per adult to see an exhibit that covered about half of the arena floor.

Sound like the Philadelphia Flower Show. First time I went at the PA Convention Center I expected the whole floor covered with exhibits and it was like less than half and the rest was just vendors.

[Fightingscot82]

The campus that sticks out to me is California. It doesn't even look like the same place it was 20 years ago. It's nice down there now. The town is the killer. It's like having a school on one end of Clymer. Cal used to be like a hodge-podge of different looking buildings, etc. The did a terrific job in the demolition/rebuilding.

IUP has a few that still need to come down (Elkin, for one). Others need serious updates (or torn down) -- Zink, Ackerman, Pratt, Memorial Field House.

The Field House likely will never be torn down as it was dedicated as a war memorial, etc., but it has become a major eye soar. It needs some major sprucing up - interior and exterior. I still think the basketball teams should play one game a year over there. It's been several years now. IUP played Shippensburg in the Field House in 2018 on a Saturday night and it was a really cool evening. It was certainly a Memory Lane trip.

Edinboro has some as well - but its certainly cleaned up since I was a student there. Probably because the first of the "revolving door presidents" was mentored by Track Suit Armenti. They still have some mothballed dorms that need to be spruced up or torn down and the vacant former lab school building that's clearly just sitting there and the facilities buildings (in the middle of campus!). Before everything went to hell, there was a daring plan to convert the former steam plant building into a brewery to promote the fermentation program they were starting. Insane to consider for those of us who attended PASSHE schools during the Stalinist-style enforcement of alcohol.

[IUPalum]

FYI - Tort's favorite store on campus has nearly all its brand-name merchandise (Nike, etc.) at 40% (or more) off this week and next. It's the annual "we gotta get rid of all this overpriced stuff before the school year ends' sale.

The nice windbreakers that are usually $87 are now in the $40s ...same with the polo shirts and sweatshirts.


Remember, nothing gets that football team more pumped up than looking up in to the bleachers and seeing fans wearing IUP gear from the Co-Op Store.

Is this when you buy your gear?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

So much of our campuses are time capsules from the rapid growth of the 70s - the last time the state fully supported us. Still so many buildings (and fences) from the 70s. Unfortunately a lot of them were built at the expense of some grand older buildings that now would have been preserved - and the brick & block institutionalized construction is terrible for wireless phone & internet, so schools have had to spend tens of thousands on extra hotspots and signal repeaters for all the wireless technology that can't travel through stone. Let's be honest, the architecture is also pretty damn boring.

The campus that sticks out to me is California. It doesn't even look like the same place it was 20 years ago. It's nice down there now. The town is the killer. It's like having a school on one end of Clymer. Cal used to be like a hodge-podge of different looking buildings, etc. The did a terrific job in the demolition/rebuilding.

IUP has a few that still need to come down (Elkin, for one). Others need serious updates (or torn down) -- Zink, Ackerman, Pratt, Memorial Field House.

The Field House likely will never be torn down as it was dedicated as a war memorial, etc., but it has become a major eye soar. It needs some major sprucing up - interior and exterior. I still think the basketball teams should play one game a year over there. It's been several years now. IUP played Shippensburg in the Field House in 2018 on a Saturday night and it was a really cool evening. It was certainly a Memory Lane trip.